Site details

Beit Shean

PK	C6206
TITLE	Beit Shean
WGS84	32.504241° N, 35.503121° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	32.504241, 35.503121
LON/LAT	35.503121, 32.504241

DMS

32° 30' 15.2676" N

35° 30' 11.2356" E

W3W	globes, helped, boarded
UTM	36 S, 735162, 3599091
EGSA87	1583470, 3654974

Elevation m	-121
Elevation feet	-397
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Figurine.   Petrovic [2004], 254    'One animal figurine was found in a room in a building just west of the temple in level VI.'
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 34    ' Beth Shean (site no. 187) and Dothan (site no. 184) each have yielded 50-100 Mycenaean finds.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Petrovic [2004]: 254, Implied
    b.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 111, ' ... eleven Mycenaean vessels, ... '

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 326, ' ... IIIA2 ... '

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 326, ' ... IIIB ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Frizell ed. [2004]: Frizell, Barbara Santillo. PECUS. MAN AND ANIMAL IN ANTIQUITY. Proceedings of the conference at the Swedish Institute in Rome, September 9-12, 2002. Ed Barbara Santillo Frizell (The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars, 1), Rome 2004., '', Online here.

2. Petrovic [2004]: Petrovic, Nenad. ‘The significance of Mycenaean animal figurines abroad’, Frizell ed. [2004], 252 - 258, 'Beth Shean', pg. 254. Online here.

3. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., '', Online here.