Egyptian Pottery From the Middle Bronze Age Levant in Context

The contribution aims at a reassessment of Egyptian and Egyptianizing pottery from stratified assemblages in the MBA Levantin light of the high chronology supported by the recent ‘radiocarbon revolution’. The archaeological context of so-called ‘key-types’ that allowed previous cross-dates ,together with the methods adopted for absolute dating, will be critically evaluated in order to avoid circular reasoning. The study will then attempt a regional synthesis integrating the examined artifacts with the radiocarbon chronology, the historical chronology of Egypt, and the relative sequence of cultural developments of the MBALevant