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Deir Rifeh/Deir Rifah

PK	C6414
TITLE	Deir Rifeh∕Deir Rifah
WGS84	27.077493° N, 31.19424° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	27.077493, 31.19424
LON/LAT	31.19424, 27.077493

DMS

27° 4' 38.9748" N

31° 11' 39.264" E

W3W	rematch, babbled, misuses
UTM	36 R, 320947, 2996303
EGSA87	1214242, 3015214

Elevation m	56
Elevation feet	183.7
Region	Egypt

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Pendlebury [1930], 87    '8. From Rifah come two stirrup vases and a jug from the late Eighteenth-Dynasty tombs.'
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 532    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1930]: 87, ' ... from the late Eighteenth-Dynasty tombs.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 532, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1930]: 87, ' ... from the late Eighteenth-Dynasty tombs.'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 532, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTES

1. Position based on this overlay map.

2. And see Petrie in Gizeh and Rifeh [1907], p. 23: 'The three vases below from tomb 20, give a dating for a type of Aegean pottery not hitherto found in Egypt. The neck is most like Cypriote forms, but the exact source is not certain.' These are illustrated in Pl. XXVII.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Petrie [1907]: Flinders Petrie, William Matthew. Gizeh and Rifeh. London. School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1907, '', Online here.

2. 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, 'null', pg. 87. Online here.

3. 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., ''258 Rifeh'', pg. 532. Online here.