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Kom Abu Billah

PKC6409
TITLEKom Abu Billah
WGS84 30.428889° N, 30.817522° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 30.428889, 30.817522
LON/LAT 30.817522, 30.428889

DMS 30° 25' 44.0004" N,30° 49' 3.0792" E

W3Wreferred, undiluted, mailboxes
UTM36 R, 290391, 3368334
EGSA87 1155296, 3385829

Elevation m11
Elevation feet 36.1
RegionEgypt





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 323    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 328, 'IIIA2'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 328, 'IIIB'

NOTE

1.  Position taken from online survey: The Archaeological Sites of Lower Egypt; Resources of the Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey. They provide a .kmz file of the archaeological sites of the Delta. Their main page is here.

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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., '254 Kom Abu Billa', pg. 328. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6409 is at 31.29436° N, 30.24125° E, a straight-line distance of 110 km and 968 m.