Over the hills and far away: Handmade Made Burnished Ware

and Mycenaean cooking pots at Tell Arqa (Lebanon)

Hanan Charaf

About cooking pots, drinking cups, loom weights and ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and the neighbouring regions

6-7 November 2010

View of Tell Arqa towards the North-EastIn the background, the plain of Akkar

487 Western imports at Arqa(Account 1972-2010)

416 Cypriote

38 Mycenaean

6 Handmade Burnished Ware

23 Tell el-Yehudiyeh Ware

4 Egyptian Marl vessels

Tell Arqa local stratigraphy

Krater 04/122.002

Cylindrical pot 04/101.005

Cylindrical pot 04/133.003

Cup 04/133.005

Cup 04/133.006

Cylindrical pot 04/125.019

Monochrome Ware

“Shower Vase” 04/133.004

Ugarit “Shower Vases”

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04/133.002

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Bell-shaped bowl 04/133.015

Bell-shaped bowl 04/133.009

Krater 04/125.024

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Pithos 04/125.020

Painted Jars

Mycenaean cooking pots at Arqa

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