Site details
Tell Far‘a South (Sharuhen)
| PK | C6440 |
| TITLE | Tell Far‘a South (Sharuhen) |
| WGS84 | 31.281721° N, 34.482134° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 31.281721, 34.482134 |
| LON/LAT | 34.482134, 31.281721 |
| DMS | 31° 16' 54.1956" N | , | 34° 28' 55.6824" E |
| W3W | earmark, unnatural, broker |
| UTM | 36 R, 641083, 3461772 |
| EGSA87 | 1500162, 3508376 |
| Elevation m | 112 |
| Elevation feet | 367.5 |
| Region | Levant |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. van Wijngaarden [2002], 122 ' ... a limited number of Mycenaean vessels are found in the tombs, often accompanied by Cypriot and local ceramics. Such deposits have been discovered, for example, at ... Tell el-Far'ah (south) (site no. 240).'2. Pottery. Stubbings [1951], 86 'Several Mycenaean pots are recorded from tombs at this site, ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [2002]: 122, ' ... Mycenaean vessels ... '
2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIA2'
3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIB'
b. Stubbings [1951]: 86, ' ...; but to judge from the published drawings they are probably of the III B phase.'
NOTES
1. Position taken from the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land, https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/
2. A photograph and a description may be found here: Eretz; The Magazine of Israel, 'Endangered Tells: Tell el-Far'ah'. https://www.eretz.com/wordpress/blog/2015/04/05/endangered-tells-tell-el-farah/
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Tell Far'a'', pg. 86.
2. 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., 'Funerary Evidence', pg. 122.
' ... a limited number of Mycenaean vessels are found in the tombs, ... '
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