Bate's Island
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Bate's Island is an isolated island situated off the ancient Libyan coast, located some 240 km west of Alexandria and close to the modern Egyptian seaport of Marsā Maṭrūḥ (مرسى مطروح).
The excavation of an extensive Late Bronze Age settlement on the island revealed Levantine ceramics of the 13th-12th centuries BCE, together with Libyan, Cypriot, Cretan, Mycenaean and Egyptian pottery, illustrating the integration of Canaanite trade within the larger regional economy and the presence of Canaanite goods and merchants at this thriving ancient emporium, probably the sole example / outpost / link on this isolated stretch of the trade circuit.
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Bibliography
- Hulin, L. [1989], “Marsa Matruh 1987, Preliminary Ceramic Report”, JARCE 26 (1989), p.125.
- White, Donald [1989], “1987 Excavations on Bate’s Island, Marsa Matruh: Second Preliminary Report”, JARCE 26 (1989), pp.87-114.
- White, Donald et alii [2002] (with contributions by Rita Gardner and Linda Hulin), Marsa Matruh : the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's excavations on Bates's Island, Marsa Matruh, Egypt, 1985-1989, [Prehistory Monographs 1-2], Philadelphia : Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press, 2002.
- Part 1 - The excavation ISBN 1931534004.
- Part 2 - The objects ISBN 1931534012.
- White, D. & White, A.P. [1996], “Coastal Sites of Northeast Africa: The Case Against Bronze Age Ports”, JARCE 33 (1996), pp.11-30.
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