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Gerar (Tell Jemmeh)

PKC6441
TITLEGerar (Tell Jemmeh)
WGS84 31.387149° N, 34.445443° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 31.387149, 34.445443
LON/LAT 34.445443, 31.387149

DMS 31° 23' 13.7364" N,34° 26' 43.5948" E

W3Wapply, abetted, programmer
UTM36 R, 637437, 3473412
EGSA87 1495514, 3519813

Elevation m50
Elevation feet 164
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 323    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Pottery.   Bergoffen [2014], 666    'There are 34 entries for Mycenaean pottery from an indeterminate number of LHIIIA/LHIIIB vessels.'
3.    Sherds.   Stubbings [1951], 68    'Among Mycenaean sherds from this site Petrie records 'part of a Mykenaean piriform vase, like those found at Amarna, while this would be about 1420 B.C. by the level'.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Bergoffen [2014]: 666, ' ... Mycenaean pottery from an indeterminate number of LHIIIA/LHIIIB vessels.'
    b.    Stubbings [1951]: 68, 'The fragment should therefore be Myc. IIIA.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIA2'
    b.    Bergoffen [2014]: 668, 'The style suggests a date in LHIIIA:2 early for all four sherds.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIB'
    b.    Bergoffen [2014]: 666, ' ... Mycenaean pottery from an indeterminate number of LHIIIA/LHIIIB vessels.'

NOTE

1.  Position taken from Ben-Shlomo and Van Beek [2014] pg. 1, Figure 1.1

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ben-Shlomo and Van Beek, eds. [2014]:  Ben-Shlomo, David and Gus W. Van Beek. The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970-1990. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C. 2014., '', Online here.

2.  Bergoffen [2014]:  Bergoffen, Celia J.. ‘Imported Cypriot and Mycenaean Wares and Derivative Wares’, pp. 657-720 in Ben-Shlomo and Van Beek (edd.) [2014]., ''Mycenaean Pottery'', pg. 666. Online here.

3.  Stubbings [1951]:  Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Gerar (Tell Jemmeh)'', pg. 68.

4.  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., '239 Gerar (Tell Jemmeh)', pg. 327. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6441 is at 31.44835° N, 34.3603° E, a straight-line distance of 10 km and 575 m.