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Sedment/Sidmant al-Jabal

PK	C6426
TITLE	Sedment∕Sidmant al–Jabal
WGS84	29.124947° N, 30.862066° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	29.124947, 30.862066
LON/LAT	30.862066, 29.124947

DMS

29° 7' 29.8092" N

30° 51' 43.4376" E

W3W	whiffed, sponges, coriander
UTM	36 R, 291991, 3223718
EGSA87	1168255, 3241079

Elevation m	66
Elevation feet	216.5
Region	Egypt

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 531    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 531, 'EARLIEST: LMLMI/LMII'

2. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 531, 'EARLIEST: LMLMI/LMII'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 531, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 531, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1. An extended cemetery. See the maps in Petrie and Brunton [1924b] Plates LXXXV through XC and especially the last. Much of the area that Petrie and Brunton identified as cemeteries appears now to be cultivated land. Still there is much in Petries' maps that could be put into digital form.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Petrie and Brunton [1924b]: Petrie, Sir Flinders and Guy Brunton. Sedment II. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London. 1924, '', Online here.

2. 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., ''253 Sedment'', pg. 531. Online here.