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Tell Kadesh

PKC6475
TITLETell Kadesh
WGS84 32.559539° N, 35.216225° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 32.559539, 35.216225
LON/LAT 35.216225, 32.559539

DMS 32° 33' 34.3404" N,35° 12' 58.41" E

W3Wredouble, darlings, mountaineer
UTM36 S, 708075, 3604626
EGSA87 1555638, 3658219

Elevation m80
Elevation feet 262.5
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 518    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 518, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 518, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTES

1.  In marking this site I have followed Wijngaarden's [1999] map 6, p. 444 (site 176). But Wijngaarden may have confused this small Tell Kedesh with the large and important Tell Kedesh site at 33.113970° N, 35.527355° E (home web-site: https://sites.google.com/view/huqedesh/home)

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

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., ''176 Tell Kadesh'', pg. 518. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6475 is at 32.59909° N, 34.91657° E, a straight-line distance of 28 km and 450 m.