Type: Piriform Jug Tel-El-Yahudiyeh Type
Age: 1700 BCE
Era: Middle Bronze Age 
Culture: Canaanite
Excavated: Israel
Reference: Amiran, R. (1969) Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land. Pages: 36-37 and 107

Although this jug does not have the characteristic decorative punctures common to the Tell El-Yahudiyeh Piriform jugs, it does have the shape that was popularized in the region. In fact, production of these piriform jugs may have centered in Tell El-Yahudiyeh, Egypt .

Tell El-Yahudiyeh means Mountain of the Jews and is located in northern (lower) Egypt today. Excavations of the site found a large walled city which was unlike Egyptian walled cities of the time. The difference is likely due to the city being established by the Hyksos, a Semitic group that took control of Lower Egypt during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. (See the Hyksos seal for more information).  Note that Joseph was sold into Egypt in the Middle Bronze Age, thus we have a Biblical attestation as well as archeological evidence of an Israelite presence in Egypt at this time.