Site details

Gurob

PK	C6418
TITLE	Gurob
WGS84	29.904014° N, 31.194006° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	29.904014, 31.194006
LON/LAT	31.194006, 29.904014

DMS

29° 54' 14.4504" N

31° 11' 38.4216" E

W3W	headlines, mission, warmers
UTM	36 R, 325634, 3309520
EGSA87	1195286, 3329697

Elevation m	36
Elevation feet	118.1
Region	Egypt

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Pendlebury [1930], 112    'L.M. I a squat bowl; L.H. III vases'
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 530    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
3.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 94    'The Myc. III pots from this site, mostly from tombs, are almost all stirrup-jars of various types.'
4.    Pottery.   Petrie [1891], 17    'There were five examples of the false-necked vases of Aegean ware (3) with iron glaze bands; all of them of this tall globular type.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1930]: 112, 'L.M. I a squat bowl'

2. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 530, 'EARLIEST: LHIIB'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1930]: 112, 'L.H. III vases'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Stubbings [1951]: 94, 'The following are classified by Furumark as of the latter part of III A: '

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 530, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 530, 'LHIIIB: Yes'
    b.    Stubbings [1951]: 94, 'More definitely of the III B phase is a group of five globular stirrup-jars from a tomb dated by Petrie to the time of Amenhotep III.'
    c.    Petrie [1891]: 16, Dated by Petrie [1891] 16 (bottom) to the time of Amenhotep III whose usually accepted dates are 1386 - 1349.'

NOTE

1. There is an ambiguity here. Petrie [1891] 16-17 puts these vases in the time of Amenhotep III whose usually accepted dates are 1386 to 1349 - the LH IIIA period. But the vases themselves are thought to be LH IIIB. One of them is illustrated in Petrie [1891] at plate XVII. 3.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Pendlebury [1930]: Pendlebury, John D.. Aegptiaca: a catalogue of Egyptian objects in the Aegean area. Cambridge, 1930, 'Gurob', pg. 112. Online here.

2. Petrie [1891]: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. Ilahun, Kahun and Gurob. London. 1891, ''37.'', pg. 16. Online here.

3. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Gurob (Medinet el-Ghurab, Fayum)'', pg. 94.

4. 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., ''251 Gurob'', pg. 530. Online here.