drinking vessels such as skyphoi and the rhyton mentioned above, and kraters for mixing wine. An excavation at Akko, for example, has uncovered a large assemblage of Greek imported pottery that its excavator has associated with part of a merchant’s quarter occupied by Greeks in an otherwise Semitic, probably Phoenician environment. The same is true for Jaffa, where a large group of red-figured ware has been found and interpreted as coming from a Greek merchant warehouse. In addition we may point