© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���� | doi:10.1163/978900443011 �_006 <UN> Chapter 4 “For the Wealth of the Sea Will Pass on to You”: Changes in Patterns of Trade from Southern Phoenicia to Northern Judah in the Late Iron Age and Persian Periods Aaron Brody It is an honor to dedicate the following study to Michal Artzy, esteemed friend, colleague, and mentor. Michal was my first dig director on the Tel Nami project in 1987. I joined the project after a year affiliation with the Department of Mari- time Civilizations at the University of Haifa, which Michal helped to shape over her distinguished career. I had gone to Israel to study and participate in underwater archaeology, but under Michal’s guidance gained a deep apprecia- tion for harbor sites and the interaction between the land and the sea, a mari- time focus which has had a profound effect on my research interests and ca- reer. After graduate school, it was Michal who offered me access to her excavation materials from Moshe Dothan’s ‘Akko project to work on as a post- doctoral project. It has been a pleasure to spend additional seasons in the field with Michal, on her and Ann Killebrew’s codirected Total Archaeology Project at Tel ‘Akko. Interregional interconnections are coming into their own as a focus of study in the Iron ii and Persian period southern Levant (Master 2003; Brody and Friedman 2007; Zukerman and Ben-Shlomo 2011; Brody 2014a, 2014b; Faust et al. 2014; Ariel 2016; Freud 2016; Cohen-Weinberger, Szanton, and Uziel 2017; Gil- boa et al. 2017). In past research I have focused on ceramics and bronze bangles as items exchanged westward from Transjordan to Tell en-Naṣbeh in northern Judah (Brody and Friedman 2007; Brody 2014a). I have also investigated the Iron ii evidence from Naṣbeh for a small repertoire of Phoenician ceramics, which were brought from the eastern Mediterranean coastal region to the site in the Judean Highlands (Brody 2014b). The identification of an artifact from Naṣbeh as a fragment of a Phoenician mask (Figs. 4.1, 4.2) helps us to recon- sider connections from the coast to the province of Yehud in the Persian peri- od, long evinced by the presence of a limited number of Greek fine ware ce- ramics uncovered at the site and elsewhere in the Judean Highlands (von Bothmer 1947; Stern 1982: 137–141; Nunn 2014). Drawing on evidence for 0004808297.INDD 69 17-04-2020 12:44:06