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Tell Lachish (Tell ed Duweir)

PKC6486
TITLETell Lachish (Tell ed Duweir)
WGS84 31.565081° N, 34.848832° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 31.565081, 34.848832
LON/LAT 34.848832, 31.565081

DMS 31° 33' 54.2916" N,34° 50' 55.7952" E

W3Wundrafted, miniature, toast
UTM36 R, 675465, 3493712
EGSA87 1532181, 3543480

Elevation m264
Elevation feet 866.1
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 144    ' ... the Mycenaean pottery.'
2.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 56    ' ... a fine one-handled kylix ...', ' ... a lip-fragment from another kylix, or a cup, ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 144, 'The early Myc. II stemmed cup from the Fosse Temple I ... ', 'Early Myc. II, ... '
    b.    Stubbings [1951]: 56, 'In the first structure of the Fosse Temple at Lachish was found a fine one-handled kylix ... with ivy-leaf ornament around the bowl, of undoubted Myc. II fabric.'
    c.    Stubbings [1951]: 56, 'Also Myc. II is a lip-fragment from another kylix, or a cup ... '

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 144, 'The L.M. III amphoroid krater ... '

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 144, ' ..., IIIA 2, ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 144, ' ..., 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., ''51. Tell Ed Duweir (Lachish)'', pg. 144. Online here.

2.  Stubbings [1951]:  Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Lachish (Tell ed Duweir)'', pg. 56.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6486 is at 31.6984° N, 34.56984° E, a straight-line distance of 30 km and 322 m.