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‘Atiqot 97 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
An Omega-Type Scarab from Middle Bronze Age Burial Pit 204 in Ashqelon
(pp. 85–87)
Daphna Ben-Tor
Keywords: Southern Levant, coastal plain, cemetery, glyptics, Omega Group, chronology, geography, Egypt, Canaan
An Omega-type scarab was found in Pit 204, the largest and best-preserved tomb in the cemetery unearthed in Ashqelon. It was found near a fragmentary skull and several bones of a young woman, together with a large assemblage of carefully positioned pottery vessels. The Omega-type scarabs are believed to have been produced in the Southern Levant in early Middle Bronze Age II (c. 1700–1640 BCE).