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Jericho, Syro, Hyksos Scarabs
For a plate of drawn scarabs falling into a group after the prototype found at Jericho and described by Professor Garstang as, "Figure(s) of a Canaanite wearing (a) robe and cap with Syro-Hyksos hieroglyphs in the field." see Olga Tufnell, `Hyksos Scarabs from Canaan' (incl. Jericho) in Anatolian Studies, Vol. VI, 1956, 67-(68 with 12 images)-73. The specimen were found at Jericho, Tell el-Ajjul (by some thought to be the Hyksos Sharuhen), Tell el-Duweir and Gezer in addition the origin of two of them is unknown. - At Tell el-Duweir (Lachish) ivories, beads and vases were found of the 18th - 19th dynasty period together with objects of the 8th and 9th centuries.
Middle and Late Bronze Tell el_Ajjul has been one of the richest sources for small finds such as over 1,200 scarabs and scaraboids, pottery, jewelry and decorated objects much of it known from Egypt, Cyprus, Crete, Greece and Syria/Mesopotamia. [Aharon Kempinski, `The Middle Bronze Age' in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, 1992, p. 159-(160)-210; with several colorful plates of original, ancient artifacts: Natufian jewelry, modelled skull from Baisamun, head of a clay figure from Jericho, stone mask and modeled skull from Nahal Hemar, clay figurine with coffee bean eyes from Munhata, clay figurines from Gilat, star and a mask wall painting from Teleilat Ghassul, ossuary facade adorned with eyes and nose, the Nahal Mishmar Treasure, Chalcolithic ivory figurines, Abydos jar from Arad, Arad house, flint knife and Egyptian clay vessels from Azor, clay bullar from En Besor, copper weapons, cult platform at Megiddo, Khirbet Kerak bowl, pottery from dolmens, Bronze Age weapons, the `Ain Samiya' goblet, MBAII serpent vessel, anthropomorphic goblet from Jericho, storage jars from Shiloh, metal figurines from Nahariya, fish shaped vessels from clay and alabaster, gold jewelry from Tell el-Ajjul, Canaanite jewelry from Deir el-Balah, Ivories from Lachish, the Orpheus jug from Megiddo, `Philistine' pottery, head of a horned deity from Qitmit, Akhziv ware and pillar figurines, 8 cm heigh fragment of a long robed relief of a figure surrounded by a serpent, bone inlays from Megiddo, faience vessels, depiction of a chariot on a Syrian cylinder seal.
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