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Tell Emar (Meskene)

PKC6431
TITLETell Emar (Meskene)
WGS84 35.987142° N, 38.11035° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.987142, 38.11035
LON/LAT 38.11035, 35.987142

DMS 35° 59' 13.7112" N,38° 6' 37.26" E

W3Wsegmenting, morale, impressed
UTM37 S, 419804, 3982888
EGSA87 1775737, 4075647

Elevation m314
Elevation feet 1030.2
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 509    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 509, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1.  Additional: For the late Bronze Age ceramics from Emar see Annie Caubet, "Late Bronze Age Ceramics from Emar" which is chapter 4 of Marta Luciani and Arnulf Hausleiter (edd.), Recent Trends in the Study of Late Bronze Age Ceramics in Syro-Mesopotamia and Neighbouring Regions; Proceedings of the International Workshop in Berlin, 2 - 5 November 2006. This paper is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., ''122 Meskene Emar'', pg. 509. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6431 is at 36.59813° N, 36.19225° E, a straight-line distance of 185 km and 43 m.