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CHAPTER 11

CYPRIOT, MYCENAEAN AND DERIVATIVE FORMS FROM LEVELS K-8 AND K-7
Assaf Yasur-Landau

The 25 vessels and sherds discussed in this paper belong to the Late Bronze Age Levels K-8 and K-7, and form an addition to the growing number of well-stratified Mycenaean and Cypriote pottery from the new excavations at Megiddo (for previous reports, see Ilan, Hallote and Cline 2000; Gadot, Yasur-Landau and Ilan 2006; Yasur-Landau 2006).1

CaTalOGuE
WhItE SlIP II WArE 04/K/130/VS4: White Slip II late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 2) Bowl rim; average wall thickness 5 mm. Ware: reddish brown fabric with grey core. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim. Surface (slip): light beige, burnished. 04/K/116/VS4: White Slip II late(?) bowl (Fig. 11.1: 1) Bowl, rim and parts of body; average wall thickness 5 mm. Ware: dark reddish brown with grey core. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim and traces of vertical bands. Surface (slip): beige, very worn. 08/K/3/VS2: Imitation of a White Slip II late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 3) Bowl rim; wall thickness: 4 mm. Ware: reddish brown fabric, medium-sized calcareous inclusions. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim connected to vertical bands. Surface (slip): beige, smoothed, not burnished. 06/K/97/VS1: White Slip II late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 4) Bowl rim; average wall thickness 5 mm. Ware: reddish brown fabric with grey core. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim connected to vertical bands. Surface (slip): beige, burnished. 06/K/129/VS2: White Slip II bowl (Fig. 11.1: 5) Bowl rim; wall thickness 4 mm. Ware: reddish brown fabric. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal lattice ladder pattern below rim, vertical ladder pattern. Surface (slip): beige, burnished.

I am grateful to Jeremy Rutter and Philipp Stockhammer for their insightful comments on the Mycenaean pottery.

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06/K/108/VS1: White Slip II late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 6) Bowl rim; average wall thickness 4 mm. Ware: dark reddish brown fabric with grey core. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim connected to vertical bands. Surface (slip): light beige, burnished. 06/K/99/VS4: White Slip II late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 7) Bowl rim; average wall thickness 4 mm. Ware: reddish brown fabric with grey core. Decoration and surface treatment: dark brown paint; horizontal bands below rim connected to vertical bands. Surface (slip): light beige, burnished. BASE rIng WArE 04/K/116/VS2: Base ring II bowl (Fig. 11.2: 1) Small deep bowl (cf. strm 1972: Fig. LII: 7), rim and part of the handle preserved; wall thickness 2 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, slipped, burnished. Surface: very dark grey. 04/K/81b/VS5: Base ring II bowl (Fig. 11.2: 2) Small deep bowl (cf. strm 1972: Fig. LII: 7), rim and part of the handle preserved; wall thickness 2 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, slipped, burnished. Surface: very dark brown, traces of white paint. 06/K/25/VS1: Base ring II bowl (Fig. 11.2: 3) Deep bowl (cf. strm 1972: Fig. LII: 3, 6), lower body and part of the base preserved; wall thickness 3 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, slipped, burnished. Surface: very dark brown, traces of white paint. 06/K/68/VS1: Base Ring II lentoid flask (Fig. 11.2: 4) Small lentoid flask (cf. strm 1972: Fig. LIII: 11, 13), most of body, neck, rim and part of the handle are missing; wall thickness 3 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, slipped, burnished. Surface: very dark brown, white horizontal lines on the front of the vessel, traces of white paint on the back. WhItE ShAVED WArE 04/K/99/VS3: White Shaved juglet (Fig. 11.2: 5) Juglet, rim, shoulder and handle are preserved; average wall thickness 4 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, vertically shaved exterior. Ware and surface: very pale beige, a few large calcareous inclusions. 04/K/81b/VS6: White Shaved juglet (Fig. 11.2: 6) Juglet, rim shoulder and handle are preserved; average wall thickness 4 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, vertically shaved exterior. Ware and surface: very pale brown.

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06/K/129/VS4: White Shaved juglet (Fig. 11.2: 7) Juglet, most of body, rim, handle and tip of the base are missing; average wall thickness 5 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade in coils, faint traces of vertical shaving on the exterior. Ware and surface: very pale, yellowish beige. 04/K/119/VS1: White Shaved juglet (Fig. 11.2: 8) Juglet, most of the body is preserved, parts of the rim and handle are missing; pinched muzzle; average wall thickness 4 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, vertically shaved exterior. Ware and surface: very pale beige. 04/K/83b/VS2: White Shaved juglet (Fig. 11.3: 1) Juglet, most of the body, base and part of the rim are preserved, the handle is missing; pinched muzzle; average wall thickness 4 mm. Decoration and surface treatment: handmade, vertically shaved exterior. Ware and surface: very pale beige. PlAIn hAnDMADE WArE 06/K/90/VS1: Plain White handmade jug (Fig. 11.3: 2) Plain White Handmade large jug (e.g., strm 1972: 228, 256, Fig. LXXII: 5), oval body, round mouth, handle from shoulder to rim, x-shaped mark incised on the shoulder, base missing. Similar forms exist also in Plain White Wheelmade I ware (e.g., strm 1972: Fig. LXVIII: 8). In Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitros Plain Handmade jugs were found predominantly in non-funerary contexts (Keswani 1989: 18). Additional parallels: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios (Keswani 1989: Fig. 19: 6, handmade), Sinda (Furumark and Adelman 2003: Pl. 1: 12, Plain White Handmade II), Enkomi Level IIA and Tomb 22 (Dikaios 1969: Pls. 121: 33 [3682: 5], 219: 10[1]), Athienou Stratum II (Dothan and Ben-Tor 1983: Fig. 50: 9, wheelmade). Tell Abu Hawam (Balensi 1980: Pl. 15: 311 (a handle with a Cypro-Minoan mark; 72: 14 is a complete handmade [?] jar). MyCEnAEAn PottEry 06/K/57/VS5: Small closed vessel, lh IIIAIIIB (Fig. 11.4: 1) Small closed vessel, body sherd. Ware: very light beige, very well levigated. Decoration and surface treatment: wheelmade. Inside: not decorated, no surface treatment. Outside: very light beige slip, burnished. Decoration: glossy very dark brown paint; narrow and wide bands. 06/K/87/VS3: Stirrup jar, lh IIIAIIIB (Fig. 11.4: 2) Stirrup jar, globular, small (FS 171), parts of body and shoulder preserved. Ware: light pinkish brown, well levigated. Decoration and surface treatment: wheelmade. Inside: not decorated, no surface treatment. Outside: very light beige slip. Decoration: glossy dark brown paint, wide bands. 06/K/91/VS3: Stirrup jar, lh IIIA2IIIB1 (Fig. 11.4: 3) Stirrup jar, globular, small (FS 171), base ring, most of body, base and false mouth are preserved; spout, one handle and ca. 20% of the body are missing. Ware: very light brown, some large calcareous inclusions. Decoration and surface treatment: wheelmade. Inside: not decorated, no surface treatment. Outside: light

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beige slip, gold and silver mica. Decoration: glossy brown paint; concentric circles on top of false mouth, reversed triangles on the handle; FM 58 parallel chevrons on the shoulder, bands around the base of the false mouth and the spout; horizontal wide bands on the body and outer part of base. 04/K/82b/VS4: Small closed vessel, lh IIIAIIIB (Fig. 11.4: 4) Small closed vessel, body sherd, possibly part of the item in Fig. 11.4: 2. Ware: light pinkish brown, well levigated. Decoration and surface treatment: wheelmade. Inside: not decorated, no surface treatment. Outside: very light beige slip. Decoration: glossy dark brown paint, wide bands. 06/K/87/VS2: Piriform jar, medium or large, lh IIIA2IIIB1 (Fig. 11.5: 1) Piriform Jar, medium or large (FS 34, 35 or 39, 40), shoulder sherd. Ware: very light beige, very well levigated. Decoration and surface treatment: wheelmade. Inside: not decorated, no surface treatment. Outside: light beige slip, burnished also over the paint. Decoration: glossy brown paint; FM 53 wavy lines, as well as horizontal narrow and wide bands. MyCEnAEAn AnD DErIVAtIVE PottEry 04/K/120/VS2: Krater? (Fig. 11.5: 3) Open vessel, most likely a krater (FS 281?); very light brown ware. Surface treatment outside: very light beige slip, burnished, matt brown paint. Inside: smoothed, unslipped. Motif: legs and hooves of a quadruped, FM 3 (bull), yet possibly FM 2 (horse) or even FM 5 (stag). The line to the left of the left leg belongs to the belly of the animal, indicating that these are the front legs; below, two wide bands. Despite the fact that this sherd comes from outside a clear stratigraphical connection, the rarity of pictorial decoration on imported Mycenaean pottery in Israel merits a short note. The sharp triangular shape of the hoof may hint that it belongs to a bull (see Pastoral Style example in Vermeule and Karageorghis 1982: VI. 5, 19). Moreover, hooves and legs depicted in silhouette, and not filled in colour, are much more common in bulls than horses (e.g., ibid.: V. 4143, 46, 52). Legs of stags are usually thinner (e.g., ibid.: V. 5355, 58, 60). However, pastoral-style sphinxes are also depicted with very similar hooves (Vermeule and Karageorghis 1982: VI. 16), as well as a goat (Hirschfeld 2000: 148, No. 424). 04/K/120/VS1: Deep bowl (Fig. 11.5: 2) Deep bowl (FS 284); very light beige ware. No surface treatment. Decoration outside: very dark brown to black matt paint band on the outer rim and traces of another motif (spiral? wavy line?) below. Very worn inside. The combination of the very light ware, the matte paint and the form strongly suggests an LH IIIC-style vessel. Without further analysis it is impossible to determine whether this vessel is Cypriot or a coastal imitation. A second example of LH IIIC-style vessel from Megiddo is a stirrup jar from Level K-5 (YasurLandau 2006). The Megiddo stirrup-jar, as well as a sherd of a very similar LH IIIC-style stirrup jar from Tell Keisan, also has the very pale fabric and dark brown to black paint typical of contemporary Cypriot imports. According to petrographic analysis, they were manufactured in the Acco Plain.

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DISCuSSION
CyPrIot PottEry Although limited in number, the imported Cypriot assemblage from Levels K-7 and K-8 is quite homogenous chronologically. It includes Base Ring II, White Slip II, Handmade Plain White and White Shaved wares. The absence of Base Ring I and White Slip I pottery, dated to LB I and early LB IIA (the early 18th dynasty), is of significance (Bergoffen 2001: 48; Bietak and Hein 2001; Oren 2001; Eriksson 2001: 65). The absence of any BR II jugs or juglets (bilbils), one of the most prevalent types of Cypriot imports during the Late Bronze Age, is peculiar, yet may be accidental. Among imports found, the White Slip types appear to be the most indicative chronologically. None of the White Slip examples from Megiddo display the neat execution and framed chains of lozenges typical of the earlier WS II, which started to be imported into the Levant during the LB I (for Cypriot examples, see Popham 1972: Fig. 53: 14; for the early WS II from Alalakh, see Bergoffen 2003: 405, n. 77, Fig. 6). Furthermore, there is near absence of normal WS II examples, decorated chiefly with ladder lattice and ladder patterns (e.g., Popham 1972: Fig. 83: 8). Rather, there is a predominance of WS II Late (cf. Popham 1972: Fig. 83: 2, 3), displaying the typical bands-only decoration. The crude execution of the ladder lattice pattern on the only example from Levels K-7 and K-8 of a bowl decorated with this pattern (Fig. 11.1: 5) may also indicate that it belongs to the later part of the WS II range (cf. Popham 1972: Fig. 57: 1). Linear decoration appears on a good quality, local imitation of WS II Late bowl (Fig. 11.1: 3), which is also slipped. Similar imitation of WS Late pottery exists also in Tell e-fi/Gath (Gadot, Yasur-Landau and Uziel, forthcoming). WS II Late may be dated to the later LC IIC in Cyprus and LB IIB in the Levant. Thus, for example, in the later part of LC II the Parallel Line Style in Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios is replaced by WS II Late bowls, dated by the excavators to the end of the 13th century BCE (South and Steel 2001: 6869). In the Levant these bowls appear at Tel Miqne-Ekron Stratum IX (Killebrew 1998: Fig. 3: 13), Deir el-Bala Cemetery (Beit-Arieh 1985: Fig. 5: 11 [surface]) and Beth-Shean Stratum VII (Gittlen 1993: Fig. 57: 89, 12). It should be noted that based on the Egyptian finds, Beth-Shean Stratum VII should be dated to the reign of Ramesses II and up to the end of the 19th Dynasty (Mazar 2003: 332333). At Aphek, four examples of WS II Late bowls were found in the destruction deposit of the Governors Residence of Stratum x12 (Gadot 2003: Pls. V. 23: 1213, V. 27: 6, V. 29: 14), in which no earlier WS II wares were found. Another example of WS II Late was found in the earlier (pre-Residence) Stratum x13 (Gadot 2003: Pl. V.15: 11), together with more typical WS II examples (Gadot 2003: Pls. V. 15: 10, 22, V. 16: 9). Although the date for the construction of the Governors Residence at Aphek cannot be precisely fixed, it most likely took place during the long reign of Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE. However, the terminus post quem of its destruction is established by a cuneiform letter from Ugarit, which was written between the 5th and the 6th decade of Ramesses IIs reign, i.e., between 1229 and 1219 BCE (Singer 1983). These dates, together with a 14C-based date of 1200 BCE +20/-10 for the end of LC IIC (Manning et al. 2001), suggest that WS II Late wares were in use during the second half of the 13th century BCE. Also of significance is the residual nature of most of the types. A few White Shaved juglets, the Plain White Handmade jug, and the BR II flask are the only examples in which more than 50% of the vessel was recovered. This indicates that the WS II Late pottery can only be used as a terminus post quem for

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Level K-7 and at least the later part of Level K-8. It is very likely that Level K-7 postdates the end of Late Bronze Age Cypriot imports to the southern Levant, while Level K-8 represents their very last phase. thE MyCEnAEAn PottEry WIth A notE on thE AEgEAn-StylE VESSEl FroM toMB 1101A The very limited number of Mycenaean sherds and vessels from Level K-8, and their absence from Level K-7 (the item in Fig. 11.4: 4 may be residual from Level K-8) may supplement the chronological evidence of the Cypriot pottery. Despite the fact that it comes from an unstratified context, the LH IIIC-style sherd (Fig. 11.5: 2) is an important addition to the 12th century BCE imported forms found at Megiddo and northern Israel. Deep bowls are a rather rare LH IIIC import to the southern Levant (as most imports are small stirrup jars; DAgata et al. 2005; Yasur-Landau 2006), and include two examples from Acco (DAgata et al. 2005: LxxxIIb), one decorated with a wavy line. Both were subjected to NAA and were found to have originated from Cyprus. A very similar bowl from an early Iron I context at Ein el Hilu near Migdal HaEmek was also decorated with a wavy line (Yasur-Landau forthcoming). At Beth-Shean three sherds of deep bowls were found; one has only traces of decoration, the second is decorated with bands, while the third is decorated with bands, a spiral and chevrons. Two of these sherds were analysed by Mommsen, DAgata and YasurLandau (2009), and were found to have originated in Cyprus. Possible Cypriot imports or locally made LH IIIC-style deep bowls decorated with spirals were also found at Ugarit, perhaps dating from before its destruction (Hirschfeld 2000: 158, Nos. 486488; = Karageorghis 2000: 65, Nos. 7072). Besides the LH IIIC-style stirrup jar from Level K-5 mentioned above, another possible example of an Aegean or Aegean-style vessel from 12th century BCE Megiddo is the enigmatic Dove Vase found in Tomb 1101A, in a possible Megiddo VIIA context (Guy and Engberg 1938: Pl. 8: 1). I would certainly agree with Mountjoy (2008: 22), who argues that the shape and the main decoration of this vase have no parallels, and thus it is impossible to give it a precise date according to the Aegean sequence, let alone use it to pinpoint the chronology of Stratum VII. The fact that less than a third of the vessel is preserved does not allow a safe attribution to its primary context in the 1101A burial. Calling this vase Mycenaean (as Mountjoy did) may be misleading, as NAA refuted the possibility that it was produced on the Aegean mainland. Similarly, Mountjoys identification of the vessel as Cypriot based on its subsidiary motifs cannot be supported by provenance studies, as its chemical composition is different from any other LH IIIC-style import to the southern Levant, and does not fit any of the known Cypriot fabric groups (DAgata et al. 2005). Even without the Dove Vase of Tomb 1101A, the new LH IIIC-style sherd is more evidence that the LH IIIC-style Cypriote imports found in Acco (or their imitations made in the Acco Plain) did not bypass Megiddo on their way through the Jezreel Valley east to Beth-Shean and Tel Rehov, and that Megiddo and Beth-Shean very likely coexisted during most of the 12th century.

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FIGURE 11.1: WHITE SLIP II WARE AND IMITATION WHITE SLIP II

no. reg. no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 04/K/130/VS4 04/K/116/VS4 08/K/3/VS2 06/K/97/VS1 06/K/129/VS2 06/K/108/VS1 06/K/99/VS4 type CYP60 CYP60 CYP60 CYP60 CYP60 CYP60 CYP60 level K-8 K-8 K-8 K-8 K-8? K-8? K-7 Basket elevation (m) 163.77-163.85 163.89-164.13 163.69-163.74 163.73-163.73 163.98-164.08 163.96-164.02 163.99-164.18 reference in Chapter 10 Fig. 10: 13: 1 Fig. 10.13: 2 Fig. 10.14: 3 Fig. 10.18: 11 Fig. 10.22: 1 Fig. 10.22: 2 Fig. 10.24: 5

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Fig. 11.1: White Slip II ware and imitation White Slip II.

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FIGURE 11.2: BASE RING II AND WHITE SHAVED WARE

no. reg. no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 04/K/116/VS2 04/K/81b/VS5 06/K/25/VS1 06/K/68/VS1 04/K/99/VS3 04/K/81b/VS6 06/K/129/VS4 04/K/119/VS1 type CYP61 CYP61 CYP61 CYP62 CYP63 CYP63 CYP63 CYP63 level K-8 K-8? K-8 K-8 K-8 K-8? K-8? K-8? Basket elevation (m) reference in Chapter 10 164.13-164.17 164.00-164.02 163.94-164.04 163.63-163.72 163.73-163.74 164.11-164.15 163.85-163.98 164.03-164.06 Fig. 10.13: 3 Fig. 10.22: 3 Fig. 10.16: 12 Fig. 10.16: 13 Fig. 10.13: 4 Fig. 10.22: 6 Fig. 10.22: 4 Fig. 10.22: 5

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Fig. 11.2: Base Ring II and White Shaved ware.

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FIGURE 11.3: WHITE SHAVED WARE AND PLAIN WHITE HANDMADE WARE
no. reg. no. 1 2 04/K/83b/VS2 06/K/90/VS1 type CYP63 CYP64 level K-7 K-8 Basket elevation (m) reference in Chapter 10 164.24-164.24 163.98-164.16 Fig. 10.24: 4 Fig. 10.18: 14

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Fig. 11.3: White Shaved ware and Plain White Handmade ware.

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FIGURE 11.4: MYCENAEAN POTTERY

no. reg. no. 1 2 3 4 06/K/57/VS5 06/K/87/VS3 06/K/91/VS3 04/K/82b/VS4 type MYC60 MYC60 MYC60 MYC60 level K-8 K-8 K-8 K-7 Basket elevation (m) reference in Chapter 10 163.75-163.78 163.95-164.08 163.84-163.96 164.38-164.48 Fig. 10.13: 5 Fig. 10.18: 13 Fig. 10.20: 4 Fig. 10.25: 1

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Fig. 11.4: Mycenaean pottery.

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Fig. 11.5: Mycenaean and derivative pottery.

FIGURE 11.5: MYCENAEAN AND DERIVATIVE POTTERY

no. reg. no. 1 2 3 06/K/87/VS2 04/K/120/VS1 04/K/120/VS2 type MYC61 MYC MYC level K-8 Unstratified Unstratified Basket elevation (m) reference in Chapter 10 163.95-164.08 164.13-164.22 164.08-164.10 Fig. 10.18: 12 Fig. 10.26: 13 Fig. 10.26: 15

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