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Note that the historicity of that text, or any other text used in the present context, is irrelevant. They are used as cultural documents.

For example, in Bronze Age Israel, Ruth Amiran, Early Arad 1 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1978), pp. 51–52. See also Stephen Plog, Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics: Design Analysis in the American Southwest (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980), pp. 83–85.

Franken and Steiner, Excavations in Jerusalem 1961–1967, p. 91.

Zimhoni, Studies in the Iron Age Pottery of Israel, pp. 112, 169.

See also Orna Zimhoni, Studies in the Iron Age Pottery of Israel: Typological, Archaeological and Chronological Aspects (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Univ., Institute of Archaeology, 1997), p. 112.

For more details and references, see Amihai Mazar, “On the Appearance of Red Slip in the Iron Age I Period in Israel,” in Seymour Gitin, Amihai Mazar and Ephraim Stern, eds., Mediterranean Peoples in Transition (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1998), p. 375.

Hendricus J. Franken and Margreet L. Steiner, Excavations in Jerusalem 1961–1967, Volume II, The Iron Age Extramural Quarter on the South-East Hill (Oxford: The British Academy, 1990), p. 91.

Sinopoli, Approaches, p. 229.

Carla Sinopoli, Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics (New York: Plenum, 1991), p. 227.