Site details

Sinda

PK	C1796
TITLE	Sinda
WGS84	35.157122° N, 33.701885° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.157122, 33.701885
LON/LAT	33.701885, 35.157122

DMS

35° 9' 25.6392" N

33° 42' 6.786" E

W3W	weans, chiefly, unlike
UTM	36 S, 563926, 3890693
EGSA87	1384896, 3933568

Elevation m	31
Elevation feet	101.7
Region	Cyprus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 185    'The settlement at Sinda (site no. 54) probably constituted an inland centre related to Enkomi. Furumark reports that a great quantity of LH IIIB pottery was found in the lowest settlement levels at Sinda.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 185, '...a great quantity of LH IIIB pottery was found...', '...as well as a LH IIIB conical rhyton and a Mycenaean female figurine...'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery

NOTE

1. Site was destroyed by villagers. See https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/415 which is a review of Swedish Excavations at Sinda, Cyprus: Excavations Conducted by Arne Furumark 1947-1948.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery', pg. 323. Online here.