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‘Atiqot 78 (2014)
ISBN 2948-040X
Three Canaanite Design Scarabs, One Egyptian Obsidian Scarab and One Syrian Cylinder Seal from a Burial Cave near Ras ‘Ali, in Nahal Zippori
(pp. 1–11)
Baruch Brandl
Keywords: burial goods, hieroglyphs, art, iconography, typology, glyptics
Four scarabs and a cylinder seal were unearthed in a burial cave near Ras ‘Ali, in Nahal Zippori. Three of the scarabs are made of glazed steatite and one, of obsidian; the seal is made of serpentine. The three glazed steatite scarabs are locally made Canaanite products, while the obsidian scarab seems to have been imported from Egypt. The cylinder seal is a Syrian product that was imported from the Syrian coast, most probably from Ugarit. All the glyptic finds are typical of MB IIC in Canaan (sixteenth century BCE).