None of the aKwe mentioned types occur in l. ate Bron/e Age contexts, w hen completely new sets of distinctive tv pes began to appear in Kith tombs and settlements. In addition to these new ty pcs of pottery, the l. ate Bn>n/e Age differs from the Wadi Suq period in two important respects;
• Most of the Late Bron/e Age pottery is unpainied.
• The pottery types found in the tombs arc common in the scitlcments as well. Titus, there is no differentiation between tomb and seulemeni pottery, liven storagejars appear in tombs.
The major diagnostic type of laile Bron/e Age pottery is the fiHited goblet (figs. 4.1-3). In the tombs, some of these are painted (figs. 4.1-2) but in the settlements they are mainly unpainied. Another typical shape of the Late Bron/e Age is the small open Km l (figs. 4.4-9). 'Hie only painted examples arc small incurving Kiwis (figs. 4.7-9». A band of hanging strokes around the rim. painted in red/nturoon. is the most common decoration. Other paiicms. such as a wavy line (fig. 4.9), are rare.
Small jars arc common in Kith the settlemems and the tombs. Most of these have a flat base hut a distinctive jar with a goblet foot is also known (fig. 4.10-12). The only diagnostic rims arc the two or three banded rims found on small jars (Velde 1992: PI. 50; Carter 1997; Pig. 4S). These rims seem to imitate Kassite pottery from Bahrain and Failaka. .Storagejars are nondescript, neither decorated nor incised, and have very simple rounded or sometimes squared rims.
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