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Tell el-Muqdam (Leontopolis)

PKC6403
TITLETell el–Muqdam (Leontopolis)
WGS84 30.68306° N, 31.355569° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 30.68306, 31.355569
LON/LAT 31.355569, 30.68306

DMS 30° 40' 59.016" N,31° 21' 20.0484" E

W3Wrudimentary, rinks, boggle
UTM36 R, 342485, 3395632
EGSA87 1205303, 3417374

Elevation m9
Elevation feet 29.5
RegionEgypt





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 528    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 528, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

NOTE

1.  Position taken from online survey: The Archaeological Sites of Lower Egypt; Resources of the Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey. They provide a .kmz file of the archaeological sites of the Delta. Their main page is here.

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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., ''238 Tell el-Muqdam'', pg. 528. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6403 is at 31.44733° N, 31.54375° E, a straight-line distance of 86 km and 948 m.