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Tell Nahr al-‘Arab

PKC6445
TITLETell Nahr al–‘Arab
WGS84 35.63165° N, 35.80533° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 35.63165, 35.80533
LON/LAT 35.80533, 35.63165

DMS 35° 37' 53.94" N,35° 48' 19.188" E

W3Wbiophysics, land, nitrate
UTM36 S, 754041, 3946719
EGSA87 1571190, 4007638

Elevation m33
Elevation feet 108.3
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 544    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Pottery.   Schaeffer [1933], 126    ' ... quelques rares fragments de vases chypriotes et mycéniens ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 544, 'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Schaeffer [1933]: 126, ' ... des xiv e et xiii e siecles, ... '

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Schaeffer [1933]: 126, ' ... des xiv e et xiii e siecles, ... '

NOTE

1.  Position taken from the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land, https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Schaeffer [1933]:  Schaeffer, Claude F.A.. ‘Les fouilles de Minet-el-Beida et de Ras-Shamra: Quatrième campagne (printemps 1932). Rapport sommaire’, Syria (14:2) 93-127. 1933., ''Fouilles sur un tell découvert au bord du Nahr-el-Arab sur le territoire de Bordj-Islam.'', pg. 126. 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., ''335 Tell Nahr al-’Arab'', pg. 544. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6445 is at 35.63311° N, 35.78499° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 847 m.