Discovered by the Nahal Tillah team in excavations on the Tel Halif Terrace in 1995, this small pottery sherd contains a potmark with punctured decoration. It depicts an ibis-bird and possibly a branch sign. The potmark, perhaps made to indicate the maker of the pottery vessel, fits well in the corpus of early dynastic potmarks from Egypt. It dates to the Early Bronze IB period, ca. 3300 - 3000 BCE.

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Levy, T.E., Alon, D., van den Brink, E.C.M., Kansa, E., Yekuteli, Y., Smith, P., Dawson, L., Rowan, Y., Moreno, J., Golden, J. and Porat, N.

in prep Egyptian Canaanite Interaction, ca. 4500-3000 B.C.E. To be submitted to Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.