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Beirut (Center)

PKC6455
TITLEBeirut (Center)
WGS84 33.897864° N, 35.507594° E
Accuracy 200 m.

LAT/LON 33.897864, 35.507594
LON/LAT 35.507594, 33.897864

DMS 33° 53' 52.3104" N,35° 30' 27.3384" E

W3Wdistract, chopper, handed
UTM36 S, 731876, 3753662
EGSA87 1566530, 3810767

Elevation m13
Elevation feet 42.7
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 119    ' ... following Mycenaean pottery was among finds from these tombs: ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 119, ' ... a Cypriote Myc. IIIB derivation of the IIIA shape ... '

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 119, ' ... a piriform stirrup-jar ... This pot seems to be the earliest in the group, IIIA 2.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 119, '6. A biconical stirrup-jar, ... This pot is very late IIIB.'
    b.    Hankey [1967]: 120, '8. A krater, ... belong to the Rude Style of Myc. IIIB.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., ''16. Beirut'', pg. 119. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6455 is at 33.90017° N, 35.50917° E, a straight-line distance of 294.4 m.