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The Mycenean pottery which is often found in tombs and on inhabited sites in Palestine frequently provides useful evidence for dating purposes, and occasionally, too, the presence of Egyptian objects helps to confirm the dating of the Mycenean pottery itself. Recent research, especially on the Mainland of Greece, has made clear the main lines of development of Mycenean pottery through the three periods of L.H. I, II and III and consequently the comparative dates provided by the finding of such pottery on Palestinian sites may be taken as approximately correct. It is, however, essential that the Mycenean pottery or the local Palestinian imitations of it should be assigned to the correct period. Failure to do so may lead to a misdating of the Palestinian local wares or of the other objects associated with them. A case of this seems to have occurred at Jericho.
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page 259 note 1 E.g., Hamilton, Quart. Dept. Ant. Pal. IV (Tell Abu Hawam).
page 259 note 2 Wace, Chamber Tombs at Mycenae, p. 146 ff.; Blegen, Prosymna, p. 388 ff.
page 259 note 3 Liverpool Annals XX p. 15 ff., pl. II.
page 260 note 1 Wace, Chamber Tombs, p. 171; Blegen, Prosymna, pp. 418, 445.
page 260 note 2 The low type of squat alabastron from which this high type developed in Greece (see the intermediate forms, Wace, Chamber Tombs, Pls. XXVII 2, XLIII 24, LIV 2) is not a Cretan, but a Mainland shape, see Pendlebury, Archaeology of Crete, p. 223. Consequently the appearance of the high type of squat alabastron in Palestine indicates not Cretan, but Mainland connections.
page 261 note 1 Klio XXXII (N.F. XIV), p. 146.
page 261 note 2 Wace, Chamber Tombs, Pls. XVII 22, XLVII 4, LI 13, 14, LVII 21, 22; Blegen, Prosjmna, Figs. 251, 254, 402, 480.
page 261 note 3 Blegen, Prosymna, p. 447.
page 261 note 4 Cf. Wace, Chamber Tombs, pls. XLI 16, L 21.
page 261 note 5 Wace, Chamber Tombs, Pl. XXVIII 1.
page 261 note 6 Blegen, Prosymna, Figs. 246, 260, 367, 717; 
p. 30, Fig. 20; B.M. Cat. I, Pt. II, Pl. III, C. 478; Annuario VI–VII, p. 127, fig. 48.
page 261 note 7 For the Mainland shapes see Blegen, Prosymna, Figs. 714–16, 718. Examples from Rhodes, Cyprus, Egypt and Palestine are illustrated, B.M.C. I, Pt. I, A 823–7, A 999; B.M.C. I, Pt. II, C 437–60; Annuario XIII–V p. 291, Fig. 35; C.V.A. Copenhagen I, Pl. 43 4–6; Grant, Beth Shemesh, p. 213; Grant-Wright, , Ain Shems IV, Pl. XXXIV, 5.Google Scholar There are examples from Syria not yet illustrated.
page 261 note 8 Liverpool Annals XX p. 19.
page 262 note 1 A.A.S.O.R. XVII (1936–7) p. 76, § 86 (Tell Beit Mirsim II).
page 262 note 2 See for instance Hamilton, Quart. Dept. Ant. Pal. IV (Tell Abu Hawam).