Site details
Kazanlı Höyük
| PK | C6537 |
| TITLE | Kazanlı Höyük |
| WGS84 | 34.738324° N, 36.835177° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 34.738324, 36.835177 |
| LON/LAT | 36.835177, 34.738324 |
| DMS | 34° 44' 17.9664" N | , | 36° 50' 6.6372" E |
| W3W | remapping, lame, mimicked |
| UTM | 37 S, 306955, 4078775 |
| EGSA87 | 1647009, 4154077 |
| Elevation m | 571 |
| Elevation feet | 1873.4 |
| Region | Syria |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. Ahrens and Manuelli [2017], 198 ' ... as indicated by the number of Late Helladic IIIC Mycenaean type pottery found, ... '2. Pottery. French [1975], 74 'There is ... one piece (no. 308) which seems to come from an LH IIA Vaphio cup with double axe.'
3. Sherds. Mee [1978], 131 'Amongst the sherds recovered by Gjerstad in 1930 were 14 Helladic and 33 Hellado-Cilician, ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
a. French [1975]: 74, ' ... an LH IIA Vaphio cup ...', 'This would be the earliest Mycenaean sherd from this area.'
2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
a. Mee [1978]: 131, 'Nor are the patterned sherds especially diagnostic being either IIIA2 - B or IIIB - C.'
3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. French [1975]: 73, Of two sherds from a pot Dr. French says: 'The type appears to be prevalent throughout the ceramic period known as LH IIIB.'
b. Mee [1978]: 131, 'Nor are the patterned sherds especially diagnostic being either IIIA2 - B or IIIB - C.', ' ... the kylix stem is IIIB.'
4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Ahrens and Manuelli [2017]: 198, ' ... Late Helladic IIIC Mycenaean type pottery ... '
b. Mee [1978]: 131, 'Nor are the patterned sherds especially diagnostic being either IIIA2 - B or IIIB - C.', ' ... the deep bowl rim is likely to be IIIC since the motif is antithetic spirals, ... '
NOTE
1. Dr. Mee [1978] 132 lists the sixteen Mycenaean sherds collected in the 1937 excavation.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Ahrens and Manuelli [2017]: Ahrens, Alexander and Federico Manuelli. ‘Observations on John Garstang's Excavations at Kazanlı Höyük (Cilicia) in 1937’, Altorientalische Forschungen (44:2) 187 - 200. 2017., ''Conclusions'', pg. 198.
Online here.
2. French [1975]: French, Elizabeth. ‘A Reassessment of the Mycenaean Pottery at Tarsus’, Anatolian Studies, vol. 25, pp. 53-75, 1975., '', pg. 74.
Online here.
3. Mee [1978]: Mee, Christopher. ‘Aegean Trade and Settlement in Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C.’, Anatolian Studies (28) 121 - 156. 1978., ''Kazanli'', pg. 131.
Online here.