NOTES1 The latter evidenced at Ugarit by characteristically crushed shell; seen also at the port Minet
al Beida c. 1500 – 1300 BC.
2 N. Postgate, personal communication. Textile pseudomorphs as well as extant cloth have been
recovered from Grave 16 (ASE 2 , Graves 1 – 99 pp. 58 – 59 , no. 7 ). Grave 112 (see Iraq 40 , 78
with pl. XIIIa). Grave 182 (see Iraq 49 , 96 – 97 ).
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