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LAMP AND BOWL: TAL ROGOVKY; KYLE KEIMER

POTTERY POTPOURRI. The cultural hybridity of Khirbet al-Ra‘i is especially evident in the admixture of ceramic remains preserved there. In Area A, for instance, excavators discovered several foundation deposits like the assemblage shown above—reflective of a well-known Canaanite practice—but featuring a standard Canaanite lamp-and-bowl deposit (top left) alongside a locally made Philistine bell-shaped bowl (top right).