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14. Warehouse in the port of ancient Ugarit, north Canaan.'the best fruits of the land', honey, spices, myrrh (a kind of incense) and nuts. For honey andoil, we may read sugar and butter, staples of good living. Incense was also a prime commodityfor the Egyptians, who had a special official in charge of the palace stock.A few Canaanite jars reached Greece. Most of these look like the eighty-odd found in awarehouse of the port district of ancient Ugarit (14), with their angular shoulders and lightcoloredclay, as for instance a little jar (IS) found lately among ruins of the last days ofMycenae. The site of Ugarit is near modern Latakia in Syria; evidently this variety is theproduce of northern Canaan. Three jars made of coarse brown clay have a rounder shoulderand look like many found in tombs in southern Palestine, Jacob's country. One of these (13)comes from the tomb of a noble lady of the Late Bronze Age in Athens and is to be seen inthe Agora Museum in the Stoa of Attalos, together with the other gifts found in her tomb.IS. Jar from north Canaan, found in Mycenae.