• Date: Middle Iron Age, 9th to 7th B.C..
• General description: Storage jar made of light brow clay. Overall dimensions, vertical 51 cm, horizontal 26 cm, thickness of its walls, 1 cm. The interior is flat, while the exterior is undulated.
• Detailed description:
  • -Neck: low 2 cm. high, diameter 10 cm. Opening diameter 8 cm. Its 1 cm. thick lip is slightly turned towards the exterior.
  • -Shoulders: 8 cm long, sloped around 45º, ending carinated.
  • -Body: 44 cm long, one third cylindrical with a diameter of 21 cm, and two thirds bellied with maximum diameter of 25 cm.
  • -Handles: on the body, starting at the shoulder, are semicircular. Vertically 6 cm, horizontally 4 cm, with a hole 2 cm of diameter.
• Notes: Similar amphoras are represented on an Egyptian wall.
• Sites on land:
• Sites underwater: Tripoli (Lebanon).
• Private collection: Raymond Abdulnour (Lebanon)