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Map showing the provenance of fabric groups 2,4 and 5 of Canaanite jars from Memphis. Group 4 comes from the region around Ras Shamra (Ugarit)
and Carl Heron, we carried out a provenance study of their clays, and residue analysis of the vessel contents. We were able to show that they were made in various localities along the Levantine coastal strip between North Syria and Gaza. One class came from Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit. We could also show a link between specific commodities and particular pottery fabrics: for example, between pistachia resin and a fabric originating in the region around modern Haifa. At Amarna, and at Deir el-Medina and elsewhere in Egypt, these same amphora classes have been found inscribed in hieratic with their contents, source, destination, donor and date. Interpreting these inscriptions is greatly helped now that we can know from the clay alone where the jars were made, and thus the likely source of their contents. ❑ Janine Bourriau is a Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge and has excavated for the EES at Saqqara, Memphis and Buto. She is grateful to all the funding bodies who have made this work possible: The Egypt Exploration Society, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, The Wainwright Fund, University of Oxford, The British Academy, The Society of Antiquaries of London and the National Environmental Research Council.
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