ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the findings of an important Middle Bronze Age cemetery in southern Israel by Flinders Petrie. The tombs with which this survey will be mainly concerned belong to the 500 cemetery. The vessels were in the main complete, but because in nearly every tomb the roof had collapsed a large number of the vessels, though complete, were fragmented. Because of the number of vessels which currently are not available for study, and also the variety of the minute differences even in the relatively small sample that the collections exhibit, no attempt has been made to construct a refined typology by which the vessels and other objects might be published. The gross and obvious differences in function such as bowls, juglets, jugs etc., is the first criterion of division, and then within each category of each object the vessels are described and discussed according to size, the smallest first.
