. The Philistines : their history and civilization. )ossessing ^ Daressy, Plaquettes emaillces de Medinet Habu, in pinnules du Service desAniiquites de VEyyi^e, vol. xi, p. 49. THE CULlUllE or TIIK TIIILISTINES 121 a climate that does not permit of the preservation of frescoes andsimilar ancient records, we cannot liope to find anything like the richdocumentation that Egypt offers us on tlie suhject of suggestive facts may, however, be learnt from finds made inrecent excavations, more especially pottery with coloured will be found described in the section on pott
. The Philistines : their history and civilization. )ossessing ^ Daressy, Plaquettes emaillces de Medinet Habu, in pinnules du Service desAniiquites de VEyyi^e, vol. xi, p. 49. THE CULlUllE or TIIK TIIILISTINES 121 a climate that does not permit of the preservation of frescoes andsimilar ancient records, we cannot liope to find anything like the richdocumentation that Egypt offers us on tlie suhject of suggestive facts may, however, be learnt from finds made inrecent excavations, more especially pottery with coloured will be found described in the section on pottery in my ExcavationofGezer, vol. ii, pp. Fig. 10. A Bird, as painted on an Amorite and a Philistine \ase respectively. Putting aside details, for which I may refer the reader to thatwork, it may be said that the periods, into which the historydown to the fall of the Hebrew monarchy is divided, are five innumber; to these have been given the names pre-Semitic, and Firstto Fourth Semitic. The Second Semitic, which I have dated 1800-1400 «.(., the time which ends in the Tell el-Amarna period, showsEgyptian and Cypriote influence in its pottery, and here for the firsttime painted ornament becomes prominent. The figures are outlinedin broad brush strokes, and the spaces are filled in afterwards, wholly 122 THE SCHWEICH LECTURES, 1911 or partly, with strokes in another colour. The subjects are animals,birds, fishes, and geometrical patterns generally, and there can belittle douljt that they fire crude local imitations of models of I^ateiMinoan ware, directly imported into the country. The Third Semitic,1400-1000 , includes th
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