Site details

Tell Abu Hawam

PK	C6216
TITLE	Tell Abu Hawam
WGS84	32.802877° N, 35.019803° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	32.802877, 35.019803
LON/LAT	35.019803, 32.802877

DMS

32° 48' 10.3572" N

35° 1' 11.2908" E

W3W	once, works, uptake
UTM	36 S, 689116, 3631241
EGSA87	1534194, 3683437

Elevation m	4
Elevation feet	13.1
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Figurine.   Petrovic [2004], 254
2.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 63
3.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 78    'Mycenaean pottery was found (together with Cypriot and local wares) among the earliest remains on the site, ... '
4.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 123    'Excavations here have produced the widest range of Myc. IIIB in Palestine.'
5.    Settlement.   Gilmour [1992], 115    ' ... Tell Abu Hawam being the port of entry.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Gilmour [1992]: 116, 'Balensi notes that some 200 Cypriote and about 650 Mycenaean pieces were found at the site, and the Mycenaean pottery thus outnumbers Cypriote pottery by more than 3:1.'
    b.    Petrovic [2004]: 254, 'There was much Mycenaean pottery from all over the site, ... '

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Petrovic [2004]: 254, 'One of the figurines was found beneath Locus 60, built in LB II, with only Aegean ceramics.'

3. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 125, Listed on p. 125.

4. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Gilmour [1992]: 118, 'At Ras Shamra/ Minet el-Beida there are 34 Mycenaean figurines recorded by Leonard, and at Tell Sukas 19; Tell Abu Hawam is next with 11.' Gilmour has just (p. 117) been making an argument about Mycenaean figurines being found in LH III contexts.

5. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Stubbings [1951]: 63, 'Some other sherds from uncertain shapes also appear to be of III A style, ... '

6. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: , 'After seeing the sherds in the Palestine Archaeological Museum I think there is more IIIA 2 than was listed in MPL.' MPL is Stubbings 1951 Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Hankey provides a description of pottery that appears to be LHIIIA2.

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Stubbings [1951]: 79, 'Almost all the Mycenaean finds appear to me to be of the III B phase.'
    b.    Hankey [1967]: 123, 'On the whole, the IIIB pottery does not look late in the period.'

8. LH IIIC1: (1190 BC - 1130 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 125, ' ..., a late Cypriote PWP bottle fragment. Karageorghis believes that this piece is contemporary with, not later than, Myc. IIIC I c.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Frizell ed. [2004]: Frizell, Barbara Santillo. PECUS. MAN AND ANIMAL IN ANTIQUITY. Proceedings of the conference at the Swedish Institute in Rome, September 9-12, 2002. Ed Barbara Santillo Frizell (The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars, 1), Rome 2004., '', Online here.

2. Gilmour [1992]: Gilmour, Garth. ‘Mycenaean IIIA and IIIB Pottery in the Levant and Cyprus - RDAC 1992’, Report of the Department of Antiquities; Cyprus, 1992', '3. Tell Abu Hawam', pg. 115. Online here.

3. 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., ''25. Tell Abu Hawam'', pg. 123. Online here.

4. Petrovic [2004]: Petrovic, Nenad. ‘The significance of Mycenaean animal figurines abroad’, Frizell ed. [2004], 252 - 258, 'Tell Abu-Hawam', pg. 254. Online here.

5. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Tell Abu Hawam.'', pg. 63.

6. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Tell Abu Hawam.'', pg. 78.