Site details

Bir el Abd

PK	C6397
TITLE	Bir el Abd
WGS84	31.006698° N, 32.977397° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	31.006698, 32.977397
LON/LAT	32.977397, 31.006698

DMS

31° 0' 24.1128" N

32° 58' 38.6292" E

W3W	numeracy, finessing, overplayed
UTM	36 R, 497842, 3430344
EGSA87	1358483, 3464882

Elevation m	7
Elevation feet	23
Region	Egypt

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Oren [1987], 78    ' ... fragments of Cypriote and Aegean pottery vessels.'
2.    Pottery.   Oren [1987], 84    ' ..., as well as a few examples of Mycenaean pottery.'
3.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 489    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 489, 'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
    b.    Oren [1987]: 78, Implied
    c.    Oren [1987]: 84, ' ... Mycenaean pottery.'

NOTE

1. A possible location. The site is described as 50 dunams or 5 hectares in size. It is located S of the Al-Arish - Al-Qantara road and just to the S of Lake Bardawil. See the map in Oren [1987] 79, Fig. 4; specifically area BEA-10.

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Oren [1987]: Oren, Eliezer D.. ‘The "Ways of Horus" in North Sinai’, Rainey, ed. [1987], pp. 69 - 119, '', pg. 78.

2. Rainey, ed. [1987]: Rainey, Anson F.. Egypt, Israel, Sinai; Archaeological and Historical Relationshiops in the Biblical Period. Tel Aviv University. 1987., '',

3. 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., ''226 Bir el Abd', pg. 526. Online here.