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- ↑ M.F. Oakeshott, 'The Edomite Pottery', in J.F.A. Sawyer & D.J.A. Clines (eds.) Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia, JSOT Supplement 24, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1983, 53-63; E. Mazar, 'Edomite Pottery at the End of the Iron Age', Israel Exploration Journal 35 (1985): 253-269.
- ↑ N. Glueck, Explorations in Eastern Palestine II. AASOR 15. New Haven: ASOR, 1935, 123-137.