The Pithoi or Ovoid Storage Jars
The pithoi or ovoid storage jars manifest the same continuities as the kraters. The addition of pair of handles on jars recovered at some southern sites constitutes the only Iron I “innovation.” Though it was once asserted that the collared-rim storage jar could be interpreted as a “type-fossil” of ethnic Israelite settlement, the site distribution of these jars has ruled out this possibility.
Dever, William G. “Ceramics, Ethnicity, and the Question of Israel’s Origins.” Biblical Archaeologist: Volume 58 1-4 2001 : 205. Print.
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