Figurines. Drab clay, painted with red or black bands and details. Two types: (a) Horsemen; (b) Goddesses of columnar shape, often with flower headdresses, and sometimes carrying a child.
Seals, &c. Scarabs with designs of Egyptian appearance: cylinders, steatite or (more commonly) glazed paste, lightly and often scratchily engraved: hard stone seals finely engraved: flattened spheroids in steatite with Hittite symbols on both faces, inscriptions being often garbled.
Inscriptions. Most of those in Hittite script, both relieved and incised, found in Syria, are of this Age, but chiefly of the earlier part of it (cf. [Illustration VI]). Those in Semitic characters begin in this Age; and to its later part (8th–7th cents.) belong important Aramaic inscriptions, e.g. the Bar–Rekub monuments of Sinjerli (Shamal). See tables of letter–forms appended to Palestine section, [Illustrations X] & [XI].
IV. Persian Period.
Imported Egyptian and Egypto–Phoenician objects (bronze bowls as in Age III: scarabs: figure–amulets), Rhodian (pottery), Attic (coins, small black–figure vases, &c.).
Weapons and implements. Iron. Long swords: spearheads, socketed, often with square or diamond mid–rib: short double–edged daggers with round pommels: chapes (bronze) with moulded or beaten relief–work: knives, small and slightly curved: arrow–heads (usually bronze and triangular): horse– bits (usually bronze) with heavy knobbed side–bars: ear–rings, wire armlets and pins (generally plain) of bronze: fibulae as in Age III: circular mirrors, plain, of bronze: anklets of heavy bronze: kohl–pots, bronze, of hollow cylindrical form, with plain sticks.
Pottery. As in Age II, plain, polished, rarely ring–burnished, but of less careful workmanship ([VIII], Fig. 9.) Glazed albarelli, 'pilgrim–bottles', aryballi, &c., (as in Age III) common. White–yellow slipped ware with bands of black survives rarely from Age III.
Stone vessels. Bowls on inverted cup–shaped feet not uncommon ([VIII], Fig. 11).
Beads and seals. Eye–beads in mosaic glass, and other glass beads (hard stone and bronze more rarely): conoid seals in hard crystalline stones, usually engraved with figure praying to the Moon–god: also soft stone, glass and paste conoids. Scarabs and scaraboids in paste. Cylinders become scarce.
V. Hellenistic. VI. Roman. VII. Byzantine.