Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund

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1. When mentioning Wild Goat Style (p. 207), it would have been informative for the readers to note that this ware was first named by E.A. Gardner in the 1880’s based on finds from Naukratis in Egypt. Since the 2000s, there is an ongoing debate on the terminology (and the provenience) of this East Greek ware, see Weber, S., ‘The Greek Painted Pottery from Tell Dafana’, in: Leclère and Spencer 2014, 119 with references. 2. For the so-called Achaemenid bowls (attested both in metal and ceramic), L.P.O.17, one should add that these were found by Petrie in Tell Dafana (see Colburn 2020, 213 with references); references to recent work at this important site are missing and excellent contributions about imported amphorae (including petrographic and chemical analyses) and East Greek fine ware (see note 1) should have been included as comparative material (Leclère and Spencer 2014). 3. The work by Victoria Yarmolovich on the foreign influence of some of the shapes from Kom Tuman is not fully cited, an article from 2019 is missing (Yarmolovich and Chepel 2019). Regrettable is that the nomenclature of the ceramic typology and the fabrics in this article, dealing with the same material from the same mission, is completely different to the present volume. 4. An excellent example how early researchers, in this case W.M.F. Petrie, were misled in interpretating Late Period remains because of a too strong focus on Herodotus and the aim to find a reflection of his description in the archaeological remains can be found in the reassessment of the site of Tell Dafana, see Leclère and Spencer 2014.