Site details

Sabuniye

PK	C6220
TITLE	Sabuniye
WGS84	36.083875° N, 36.001733° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.083875, 36.001733
LON/LAT	36.001733, 36.083875

DMS

36° 5' 1.95" N

36° 0' 6.2388" E

W3W	nightshade, website, loveable
UTM	37 S, 230022, 3997414
EGSA87	1582806, 4060335

Elevation m	40
Elevation feet	131.2
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Pamir [2010], 177    'Mycenaean pottery in the Sabuniye assemblage is represented by three types; ... '
2.    settlement.   Lehmann [2013], 272
3.    Settlement.   Yener, ed. [2005], 71    Woolley is quoted here: '..., and the rock face below had been artificially scraped, so that it formed an acropolis likely to be proof against any attack by a barbarian enemy ... '
4.    Sherds.   Hankey [1967], 112    'Mycenaean sherds of the 'thirteenth and twelfth centuries' were found here in trial excavations.' These sherds were found by Wooley. V. Hankey reports few sherds and no Mycenaean in her visit of 1963.

SITE SIZE

- Yener, ed. [2005]  p. 71,  Size: 12000 sq. m.  'The site measures approximately 1.2 ha. in size.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Yener, ed. [2005]: 72, 'Of the ceramics collected ..., thirty eight were dated to the Late Bronze Age.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Pamir [2010]: 177, ' ...; LH IIIA2, ... '

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Yener, ed. [2005]: 71, 'Woolley notes that he found Mycenaean sherds dating to the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C., ... '
    b.    Hankey [1967]: 112, 'Mycenaean sherds of the 'thirteenth and twelfth centuries' ... '
    c.    Lehmann [2013]: 272, 'Woolley [1953, 159] mentioned "Mycenaean" sherds of the thirteenth and twelfth century b.c.e., ... '

4. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Pamir [2010]: 177, ' ... and Early Iron Age transitional period sherds ... '

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Yener, ed. [2005]: 71, 'Woolley notes that he found Mycenaean sherds dating to the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C., ... '
    b.    Pamir [2010]: 177, ' ..., LH IIIC ... '
    c.    Hankey [1967]: 112, 'Mycenaean sherds of the 'thirteenth and twelfth centuries' ... '
    d.    Lehmann [2013]: 272, 'Woolley [1953, 159] mentioned "Mycenaean" sherds of the thirteenth and twelfth century b.c.e., ... '

NOTE

1. See the useful photographs and maps in Pamir [2010] 187 ff.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hankey [1967]: Hankey, Vronwy. ‘Mycenaean Pottery in the Middle East: Note on Finds since 1951’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (62) 107-147. 1967., ''3. Sabouni'', pg. 112. Online here.

2. Killebrew and Lehmann (eds.) [2013]: Killebrew, Ann E. and Gunnar Lehmann. The Philistines and other "Sea Peoples" in Text and Archaeology. Society of Biblical Literature. Atlanta, Georgia. 2013., '',

3. Lehmann [2013]: Lehmann, Gunnar. ‘Aegean-Style Pottery in Syria and Lebanon during Iron Age I’, Killebrew and Lehmann (eds.) [2013] 265-328. 2013., 'Sabuni (Sabuniye)', pg. 272. Online here.

4. Pamir [2010]: Pamir, Hatice. ‘Sabuniye: A Late Bronze-Iron Age Port Settlement on the Northeastern Mediterranean Coast’, Yener (ed.) [2010], pp. 173-194, 'The Ceramics', pg. 177. Online here.

5. Yener (ed.) [2010]: Yener, K. Aslihan. Across The Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations Between Syria and Anatolia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Research Center of Anatolian Studies, Koç University, Istanbul May 31 - June 1, 2010. Peeters, Leuven - Paris - Walpole, Massachusetts. 2013., '', Online here.

6. Yener, ed. [2005]: Yener, Kutlu Aslihan. The Amuq Valley Regional Projects; Volume 1. Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications no. 131. Chicago, Illinois, USA., 'Chapter Three: The Orontes Delta Survey', pg. 71. Online here.