The bulk of the pottery described so far in this report strongly reflects a late eighteenth and nineteenth dynasty date. The substantial quantities of Cypriot and Mycenaean imports as well as the abundant fragments of blue-painted Amarna vessels help verify this conclusion. However, a significant number of ceramic markers which date to the early to mid eighteenth dynasty were found this season in sealed deposits (Field II.2 and possibly Field IV) thereby proving the presence of an earlier occupation that we had previously only suspected. These included black-rimmed bowls, incised bread trays, black painted stripes and black line and dot decoration. The latest pottery on the site so far consists of one, Third Intermediate Period, wide-mouthed vessel found on the surface. This sherd and some other suspicious fragments perhaps represent the pottery of squatters occupying the site after Tell El-Borg ceased to flourish. It was interesting to the ceramicists to realize that the pot sherds found on the surface over the past three years, in reality represented accurately the date of the site’s occupation.

Rexine Hummel  

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