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Dra‘ Abu el-Naga

PKC6377
TITLEDra‘ Abu el–Naga
WGS84 25.73666° N, 32.62149° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 25.73666, 32.62149
LON/LAT 32.62149, 25.73666

DMS 25° 44' 11.976" N,32° 37' 17.364" E

W3Wwand, charted, sprightly
UTM36 R, 462035, 2846576
EGSA87 1366630, 2874692

Elevation m119
Elevation feet 390.4
RegionEgypt





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Kelder [2010], 130    ' ...: some LH IIA/LM IB pottery has been found ... '
2.    Pottery.   Kelder [2010], 130    'Malqata itself has yielded little, if any, well documented Mycenaean pottery (a Mycenaean cup attributed to Malqata ... in effect probably was found at nearby Dira Abu el-Naga [F. von Bissing, "Funde und Erwerbungen in und aus Ägypten 1897-1898/99", Archäologische Anzeiger 14 (1899), 57]), ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2010]: 130, ' ... (a Mycenaean cup attributed to Malqata ... '

2. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2010]: 130, ' ...: some LH IIA/LM IB pottery has been found at Saqqara, Abydos and Dra' Abu el-Naga, ... '

3. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2010]: 130, ' ...: some LH IIA/LM IB pottery has been found at Saqqara, Abydos and Dra' Abu el-Naga, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Kelder [2010]:  Kelder, Jorrit M.. ‘The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece’, Jaarbericht "Ex Oriente Lux" (42), pp. 125 - 140. 2010., 'Mycenaean pottery at Amarna', pg. 130. And footnote 21.
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6377 is at 26.41202° N, 34.10762° E, a straight-line distance of 166 km and 528 m.