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possible uses in the Late Bronze Age Aegean region
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a dry good, and is often considered to signify an "aromatic";
Aegean region is scanty, but parallels from other regions and
Age shipwreck site at Uluburun, Turkey. The resin was
all products of the terebinth tree can be characterized as
and the first to be identified by modern analytical methods.
atlantica, but the Pistacia genus includes many resin-
briefly surveyed. The Late Bronze Age evidence from the
Bronze Aegean region are then explored, as this area is
carried in an estimated 130 Canaanite amphoras, as part of a
Confirmation requires discovery and analysis of residues.
copper and tin, as well as other raw materials, tools,
described, followed by a discussion of Pistacia trees and
destination west or south of Uluburun. This is the largest
dry goods, and all have aromatic and astringent properties.
economically important from ancient times to the present.
galls. Some possible uses of terebinth resin in the Late
later periods allow the tentative conclusion that terebinth
likely to have been one of the intended destinations of the
oil industry and as incense in Late Bronze Age Greece is then
Pistacia tree, were recently discovered on the Late Bronze
producing trees, all of which have been well known and
products of the terebinth tree, not only fruits or, as was
resin might have been used for both of these purposes.
resin, the yellowish, semi-fluid, aromatic resin of a
rich and diverse cargo that included eleven metric tons of
single deposit of terebinth resin from antiquity ever found,
suggested after the discovery of the Uluburun cargo, resin.
The botanical origin of the resin is thought to be Pistacia
The evidence for the use of terebinth resin in the perfumed
The ideogram *123 usually associated with ki-ta-no indicates
the Linear B word ki-ta-no as the fruits of the terebinth
The remains of an estimated one metric ton of terebinth
The sources and characteristics of modern terebinth resin are
their many products -- resin, fruits, leaves, bark, wood and
tree demonstrates that the word might refer to any of the
Uluburun ship. A discussion of the accepted translation of
weapons and luxury goods on a ship journeying to some
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