An Egyptian colony in southern Palestine during the Late Predynastic/Early Dynastic period
essay 1992 Porat, Naomi

Early Dynastic EgyptAfrica > Northern Africa
'About 300 Egyptian vessels from a large number of sites ... were analyzed by petrographic and chemical methods.' (page 433). 'The sites in which locally made Egyptian pottery were identified are located in the southern Shephela, west of the Judean M...

Imported pottery with potmarks from Abydos
essay 1996 Porat, Naomi & Adams, Barbara

Early Dynastic EgyptAfrica > Northern Africa
Adams and Porat examine imported pottery and their potmarks from the cemetery at Abydos. The imported pottery was from Israel and Lebanon. A small group '…was sampled for petrographic analysis in the hope that it could: a) confirm that all the pieces...