Site details

Tabo (Argo/Ars/Irs Island)

PK	C6383
TITLE	Tabo (Argo∕Ars∕Irs Island)
WGS84	19.341247° N, 30.45044° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	19.341247, 30.45044
LON/LAT	30.45044, 19.341247

DMS

19° 20' 28.4892" N

30° 27' 1.584" E

W3W	cartoon, plating, lifeless
UTM	36Q, 232141, 2140561
EGSA87	1178484, 2150992

Elevation m	226
Elevation feet	741.5
Region	Nubia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 535

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 535, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 535, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTES

1.  For a bibliography of Tabo and the site see: http://meroe-project.uw.edu.pl/archaeological-sites/ and then search for 'Tabo'.

2.  Additional: Vronwy Hankey, 1993, "Pottery as evidence for trade: Egypt", Wace and Blegen, Pottery as evidence for trade in the Aegean Bronze Age, pp. 109-115. Site no. 77.

3.  For a photograph of the site see Plate XXII, 1 in Helen Jacquet-Gordon, Charles Bonnet, Jean Jacquet, "Pnubs and the Temple of Tabo on Argo Island", in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (55) 103-111. Online at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3856006

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. van Wijngaarden [1999]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''281 Tabo - Argo Island'', pg. 535. Online here.