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>The Italian-type handmade pottery was foundat two sites, at Tell Kazel176 and at Tell Arqa.177 AtTell Kazel its local production has been confirmed bychemical and mainly petrographic analyses.178 Thispottery first occurred in stratified contexts before thefirst destruction of the settlement at the transition fromLate Bronze Age II to Iron Age I. This destruction canbe linked to the destruction of Amurru by the Sea Peoples mentioned in Ramesses IIIs year 8 inscrip-tion at Medinet Habu.179 Such handmade pottery maybe interpreted as related to immigrants originating fromItaly and integrated into the local Syrian society a situation analogous to the one attested in some ofthe palatial centres of the Aegean.180

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