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slokind:
Since the Greeks in the 10-7cBCE borrowed that shape from the Eastern Mediterranean, I willingly yield to someone who has a book for Tell el Judeideh (which maybe is the same place).  Whether it is MBA or later, made for a Greek trading colony or for autochthonous town, I could not tell, and it might need personal examination by someone who's participated in excavations there.   Only, I don't think it's late.
Pat L.

pierre_p77:
Pat and Shawn: thank you for your help! Now that I have some indications as to wht it might be I had tryed the Internet for information. Ofcourse it is possible that it needs personal examination as Pat suggests, but it does have a very strong resemblance to the Tell el-Yahudiyeh ware. Compare for instave the pic bellow, that I borrowed from this site

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/pottery/tellyahu.html

Some information here too

http://www.archaeowiki.org/Tell_el-Yehudiyeh_Ware

Regards
/Pierre

SC:
Pat has hit the nail on the head.  Needs expert examination.  Just because it could pass at initial inspection for a Tel el-Yehudiya type doesn't mean that the same features were not in use by others hundreds of years later.  Anyway it gives you a research start.  Any thought of getting it properly cleaned to see if there is decoration under?

slokind:
But that rotello work applied in groups to make an overall zigzag pattern is, I think, decisive.  Not that I've even been at a Near Eastern excavation.
Pat L.

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