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For a full analysis of this pottery, see Wood, Palestinian Pottery of the Late Bronze Age, pp. 460–465.

For a discussion of this pottery, see Bryant G. Wood, Palestinian Pottery of the Late Bronze Age: An Investigation of the Terminal LB IIB Phase, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Toronto (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1985), p. 460.

Petrie, “Beth-Pelet 1,” p. 18.

Petrie, “Beth-Pelet 1,” p. 18.

Starkey and Harding, “Beth-Pelet Cemetery,” p. 31; Albright, “Syria, Philistines and Phoenicia,” p. 510; Yael Yisraeli, “Tel Sharuhen,” in Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (EAEHL), ed. M. Avi-Yonah and E. Stern (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978), vol. 4, p. 1077; T. Dothan, The Philistines and Their Material Culture, p. 27.

Albright, “Syria, Philistines and Phoenicia,” p. 510.

F. Asaro, Isadore Perlman and Moshe Dothan “An Introductory Study of Mycenaean IIIC1 Ware from Tel Ashdod,” Archaeometry 13 (1971), pp. 169–175; Perlman and Asaro, “Provenience Studies on Pottery of Strata 11 and 10, ” in M. Dothan and Y. Porath, Ashdod 4: Excavation of Area M, ‘Atiqot 15 (1982), pp. 70–90 (English series); J. Gunneweg et al., “On the Origin of Pottery from Tel Miqne-Ekron,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 264 (1986), pp. 3–16.

For further discussion of Mycenaean IIIC:1b ware, with references, see T. Dothan, “The Philistines Reconsidered,” pp. 167–170; Amihai Mazar, “The Emergence of the Philistine Material Culture,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 35 (1985), pp. 95–107; and “Excavations at Tell Qasile, pt. 2: The Philistine Sanctuary: Various Finds, The Pottery, Conclusions, Appendixes,” Qedem 20 (1985), pp. 119–120.

It should be pointed out that the Shardana are known to have served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army in the Amarna period (mid-14th century B.C.) and in the reigns of Ramesses II (1279–1213 B.C.) and III. In fact, Shardana mercenaries participated in Ramesses’ battle against the Sea Peoples (Sanders, The Sea Peoples, pp. 120, 125). Conditions for the Shardana mercenaries were much different than those of the Shardana captives: