The closest sources would have been the eastern Mediterranean coastline but this is not exclusive.
... The closest sources would have been the eastern Mediterranean coastline but this is not exclusive. There are indications that conifer products were imported from Asia Minor, Palestine, Lebanon (Connan, 2005). This is illustrated, for instance, by the ''best oil of pine'', the sixth of the canonical oils, which is known since the Old Kingdom where it appears among the traditional list of offerings. ...