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Canaanite Jar Found at Mycenae. Canaanite Jars and Trade in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean. Two of the most important designators of LBA trade were transport jars produced in Canaan and the Aegean. The Canaanite jar was a piriform vessel of varying size (60-100 cm tall) with lug handles and a short neck, used to convey surplus wine and oil from Canaan to the harbors of New Kingdom Egypt, and from there to ports throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin. Egyptian reliefs actually detail the process of fermenting wine in sealed Canaanite jars as well as the off-loading of these jars at a custom house in Egypt.