Site details

Gibeon (el Jib)

PK	C6506
TITLE	Gibeon (el Jib)
WGS84	31.847715° N, 35.181703° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	31.847715, 35.181703
LON/LAT	35.181703, 31.847715

DMS

31° 50' 51.774" N

35° 10' 54.1308" E

W3W	nails, rich, shepherdess
UTM	36 R, 706436, 3525631
EGSA87	1560752, 3578319

Elevation m	724
Elevation feet	2375.3
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Pritchard [1963], 13    ' ..., while a large group of imported Mycenaean vessels of the late stage of III A 2 ... '
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 521    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Pritchard [1963]: 13, ' ... the late stage of III A 2 ... '
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 521, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 521, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1. The graves from which these pots come are 10-A and 10-B. These are located in sector 14 and close to sector 23 (See Pritchard [1963], Fig. 1, for the map of Tell el-Jib). The marker is placed at approximately that location.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Pritchard [1963]: Pritchard, James B.. The Bronze Age Cemetery at Gibeon. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1963, ''Base-Ring Ware'', pg. 12. 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., ''195 Gibeon (el Jib)'', pg. 521. Online here.