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Both technological and stylistic elements of even the earliest variants show a strong relationship with Cypriot cooking wares; moreover, its distribution is largely consistent with the distribution of locally produced Mycenaean-style pottery in Syria. This study explores the Aegean relationships of the cooking pot <em>&agrave;<\/em><i> la steatite<\/i> and addresses the question of the Sea Peoples and Cypriot immigrants in Iron Age Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cooking pot &agrave; la steatite first appears at sites along the Syrian coast in the 12th century. Until recently, these cooking pots were considered an essentially Iron I coastal phenomenon with a few isolated appearances inland. 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