Site details

Ras Shamra

PK	C6211
TITLE	Ras Shamra
WGS84	35.601792° N, 35.783308° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.601792, 35.783308
LON/LAT	35.783308, 35.601792

DMS

35° 36' 6.4512" N

35° 46' 59.9088" E

W3W	lasts, rarity, fetched
UTM	36 S, 752140, 3943350
EGSA87	1569587, 4004060

Elevation m	21
Elevation feet	68.9
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Figurine.   Petrovic [2004], 253    'A large number of Mycenaean figurines have been found. They come from all three types of contexts, even if those from tombs predominate.'
2.    Pottery.   Desborough [1964/2007], 238    ' ... the evidence from Syria, where it is reasonably certain that the three towns of Ras Shamra, ... were destroyed by the Land and Sea Raiders shortly before the descent on Egypt, at a time when LH. III B pottery was still in use by their inhabitants.'
3.    Pottery.   Gilmour [1992], 113    'Hankey suggests that the most numerous finds of Mycenaean pottery in the Levant are from Ras Shamra ... '
4.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 39    'THE MYCENAEAN POTTERY'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Petrovic [2004]: 254, 'Mycenaean pottery is common both in tombs and in the settlement (a total of 496 vessels are registered in the recent publication).'

2. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... I-IIA'

3. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... I-IIA'

4. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... IIB - IIIA1

5. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... IIB - IIIA1

6. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... IIIA2'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Desborough [1964/2007]: 238, ' ... when LH. III B pottery was still in use by their inhabitants.'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 325, 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery ... IIIB'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Desborough [1964/2007]: Desborough, V.R.d'A.. The Last Mycenaeans and Their Successors: An Archaeological Survey, c. 1200 - c. 1000 B.C.. Wipf & Stock, 2007. Originally published in 1964 by Oxford University Press. , '', pg. 238.

2. 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.

3. Gilmour [1992]: Gilmour, Garth. ‘Mycenaean IIIA and IIIB Pottery in the Levant and Cyprus - RDAC 1992’, Report of the Department of Antiquities; Cyprus, 1992', '', Online here.

4. Petrovic [2004]: Petrovic, Nenad. ‘The significance of Mycenaean animal figurines abroad’, Frizell ed. [2004], 252 - 258, 'Ugarit (including Minet el-Beida).', pg. 253. Online here.

5. 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., '5 Ugarit', pg. 37. Online here.