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A Cosmetic Palette from Umm el-Biyara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Crystal-M. Bennett
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The main purposes of the excavations conducted on the summit of this mountain were three-fold: to check the commonly accepted equation of Umm el-Biyara with the Biblical Sela' of the Edomites; to determine the character, extent and duration of the Edomite settlement, and to obtain, through stratigraphic excavation, a well-dated series of Edomite pottery and other artifacts.

As general reports on the excavations have been published elsewhere and a preliminary report appeared in the Revue Biblique, it is sufficient in this paper to give only a summary of the findings.

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Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 163 , September 1967 , pp. 197 - 201
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1967

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* The writer is grateful to Mr G. L. Harding and to Mr Mohammed Murshed of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan who individually brought her attention to these parallels. Her thanks are also due to Dr Dajani, Director of the Department of Antiquities, for permission to publish photographs of the two palettes taken by his department.

* Best thanks are due to Miss Cecil Western for informing the writer of the existence of this palette.

† Mr P. R. S. Moorey of the Ashmolean Museum provided this information for which the writer is grateful, and also kindly gave some of the references quoted in the Notes at the end.

* Notice the difference in the complete bivalve shells found at Myrina where one had a hinge and a hook in bronze [28].