Site details

Tell Kazel

PK	C6446
TITLE	Tell Kazel
WGS84	34.70854° N, 35.98634° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	34.70854, 35.98634
LON/LAT	35.98634, 34.70854

DMS

34° 42' 30.744" N

35° 59' 10.824" E

W3W	roadrunner, cellulite, cobbles
UTM	36 S, 773515, 3844783
EGSA87	1600303, 3906544

Elevation m	39
Elevation feet	128
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 511    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Pottery.   Badre [2006], 74    'The Mycenaean collection is a very rich and promising one in terms of typological and chronological information.'
3.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 114    'M. Dunand found Mycenaean pottery in trial excavations, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 148, 'At Tell Kazel (site no. 135) a Mycenaean rhyton was found in an unstratified position, .... '
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 47, 'Of the 22 sites in this area, six have yielded more than 10 ceramic units of Late Helladic ware: ... and Tell Kazel (site no. 135).'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Badre [2006]: 74, 'A small, almost complete piriform amphoriskos ... '

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 114, 'Myc. IIIA 1, ... '

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 511, 'EARLIEST: LHIIIA2'
    b.    Hankey [1967]: 114, 'Myc. IIIA ... 2, ... '

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 511, 'LHIIIB: Yes'
    b.    Badre [2006]: 74, 'An upper part of a kylix ..., ', ' ... LHIIIA Late and LH IIIB Early ... '
    c.    Badre [2006]: 71, 'A zoomorphic rhyton ... in the shape of an animal's head (possibly a boar).', 'It is dated to LH IIIA - IIIB Early.'
    d.    Hankey [1967]: 114, ' ..., IIIB.'

6. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Badre [2006]: 78, 'A conical rhyton painted with hybrid flowers (fig. 10:2-3) belongs to LH IIIB1 ... '

NOTE

1. Additional: Badre, Leila with Eric Gubel, Emmanuelle Capet, Nadine Panayot. "Tell Kazel (Syrie). Rapport préliminaire sur les 4e-8e campagnes de fouilles (1988-1992)." in Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire (71:3-4), pp. 259-346. 1994. Online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Badre [2006]: Badre, Leila. ‘Tell Kazel-Simyra: A Contribution to a Relative Chronological History in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (343) 65-95. August, 2006., ''Mycenaean Imported Pottery: Area IV, Level 6, Upper and Lower Floors'', pg. 71. Online here.

2. Hankey [1967]: Hankey, Vronwy. ‘Mycenaean Pottery in the Middle East: Note on Finds since 1951’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (62) 107-147. 1967., ''10. Tell Kazel'', pg. 114. Online here.

3. Kazell [1994]: No author given. ‘Bibliographie de Tell Kazell’, Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire (71:3-4) 357-359. 1994., '', Online here.

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., ''135 Tell Kazel'', pg. 511. Online here.