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… potters as practiced working at Bamboula, acquainted used with both Levantine and Minoan, Myc. freak seals.
In technique they did not slavishly follow eastern practice but innovated, in the use of inverted metal vessel handle Sh 545 shows, Bamb. craftsmen apparently pioneered they were also partially conversant with Hittite types and (53). Equally striking is the fact that they seemed to prefer to search back for seals which originated considerably earlier, in other words, antiques. For the present, there is no possibility of explaining this complicated situation, nor even any basis for speculation. In any case, the circumstance that altogether even if it was a reguest can imagine practice unsettled, use of exotic, antique designs, as found in expression on ordinary, native coarse Cypriote pottery is the surest guarantee that we could have that not Egp foreign of any kind but Cypriotes themselves were responsible for this phenomenon.
It is not possible to be certain whether they intended the impression merely to decorate or merely to identify the jar - or to do both; but in any case the decorative apparent effect of completely an impressed border around an entire pot must not be under estimated.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain