Site details

Tell el-Ajjul

PK	C6217
TITLE	Tell el–Ajjul
WGS84	31.468249° N, 34.404328° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	31.468249, 34.404328
LON/LAT	34.404328, 31.468249

DMS

31° 28' 5.6964" N

34° 24' 15.5808" E

W3W	notch, pushing, tastes
UTM	36 R, 633412, 3482351
EGSA87	1490708, 3528491

Elevation m	25
Elevation feet	82
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 327    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Tell ‘Ajjul (Gaza)
2.    Pottery.   Fischer and Sadeq [2000], 218    ' ..., a small Mycenaean-type IIIB1 piriform jar ..., parts of which were also found in the lower fraction of the pit ...'
3.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 67    ' ... the lower two contained a number of pots of Myc. IIIA style, while the four small stirrup-jars from the top layer (three of them perhaps local imitations) should be assigned to the III B phase.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'I - IIA'

2. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'I - IIA'

3. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIB - IIIA1'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Stubbings [1951]: 67, ' ... a number of pots of Myc. IIIA style, ... '

5. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIB - IIIA1'

6. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIA2'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 327, 'IIIB'
    b.    Stubbings [1951]: 67, ' ... while the four small stirrup-jars ... should be assigned to the III B phase.' Stubbings discusses IIIB more thoroughly on p. 85 under the heading 'Tell Ajjul.'.

8. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Fischer and Sadeq [2000]: 218, ' ..., a small Mycenaean-type IIIB1 piriform jar ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Fischer and Sadeq [2000]: Fischer, Peter M. and Moain Sadeq. ‘Tell El-&'Ajjul 1999: A Joint Palestinian-Swedish Field Project: First Season Preliminary Report’, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant (10), 211-226., ''H1 - 2'', pg. 217. Online here.

2. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., ''Tell Ajjul.'', pg. 67.

3. 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. 327. Online here.