Site details
Kom Firin
| PK | C6404 |
| TITLE | Kom Firin |
| WGS84 | 30.864453° N, 30.488056° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 30.864453, 30.488056 |
| LON/LAT | 30.488056, 30.864453 |
| DMS | 30° 51' 52.0308" N | , | 30° 29' 17.0016" E |
| W3W | reassign, parapet, twilights |
| UTM | 36 R, 259819, 3417282 |
| EGSA87 | 1120746, 3432372 |
| Elevation m | 1 |
| Elevation feet | 3.3 |
| Region | Egypt |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. van Wijngaarden [2002], 323 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [2002]: 328, ' ... Mycenaean pottery'
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 [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., '252 Kom Firin', pg. 328.
Van Wijngaarden makes this a class 1 site or fewer than 10 Mycenaean artifacts.'
Online here.