Site details

Assyut

PK	C6391
TITLE	Assyut
WGS84	27.161948° N, 31.172637° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	27.161948, 31.172637
LON/LAT	31.172637, 27.161948

DMS

27° 9' 43.0128" N

31° 10' 21.4932" E

W3W	miracle, inhabited, boomers
UTM	36 R, 318940, 3005691
EGSA87	1211552, 3024488

Elevation m	136
Elevation feet	446.2
Region	Egypt

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Pendlebury [1930], 87    '2. From Asyut comes a stirrup vase, context unknown.' Pendlebury in note 4 says that this is item 46224 from the Cairo Museum.
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 531

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1930]: 86, ' ... we come to the Late Mycenaean or L.H. III period, ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 531, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1. Additional: Stubbings, F.H. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge, 1951, p. 98.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Pendlebury [1930]: Pendlebury, John D.. ‘Egypt and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (16:1-2) pp. 75-92. 1930, '', pg. 87. Online here.

2. van Wijngaarden [1999]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''257 Assyut'', pg. 531. Online here.