Syria/Coast/An-Nusayriah Mountains
Middle Bronze Age II
Communal tomb, Area A
Juglet
JT3
7.5 YR Reddish Yellow surface.
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Burial/Grave Gift
White painted V eyelet style. Whitish slip, red painted decoration. Five horizontal lines on the neck, one band at the junction of the neck and the body. On shoulder, one band filled with dotted circles alternating with groups of vertical lines, followed by another thick horizontal band and a thin line.
Hand made coil
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c. 1750-1400 BCE
Middle Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age I
This material is a product of the Syro-Belgian Tell Tweini Excavation Project, headed by Dr. Al-Maqdissi and Dr. Badawi, of the Syrian Department of Antiquities, and Prof. Dr. Joachim Bretschneider, of Ghent University. The full publication is J. Bretschneider and G. Jans, eds., About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2019) [ISBN 978-90-429-3678-2]. We acknowledge the kindness of the editors in sharing images and information.
Photographs were taken by B. Vandermeulen, K. Vansteenhuyse, and H. Hameeuw. Drawings were made under the supervision of K. Vansteenhuyse.
