Site details

Ras el-Bassit

PK	C6434
TITLE	Ras el–Bassit
WGS84	35.851655° N, 35.824991° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.851655, 35.824991
LON/LAT	35.824991, 35.851655

DMS

35° 51' 5.958" N

35° 49' 29.9676" E

W3W	asserted, obviously, aggravates
UTM	36 S, 755047, 3970868
EGSA87	1569935, 4032099

Elevation m	6
Elevation feet	19.7
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 510    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Sherds.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 510    'Sherds in LHIIB-LHIIIA1 style from Ras el-Bassit (site no. 127) were found in a large structure from the second phase of the Late Bronze Age, indicating that these vessels may have been in use for a long time.'
3.    Sherds.   Courbin [1986], 391    ' ..., on a peut-être identifié un fragment de "cratère à char" mycénien.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Courbin [1986]: 391, ' ... mycénien.'

2. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 510, 'EARLIEST: LHIIB - LHIIIA1'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 144, ''Sherds in LHIIB-LHIIIA1 style from Ras el-Bassit ... '

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 510, 'EARLIEST: LHIIB - LHIIIA1'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 144, ''Sherds in LHIIB-LHIIIA1 style from Ras el-Bassit ... '

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 510, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 510, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1. See the useful map in Beaudry [2014] 269, Fig. 3

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Aitken et al. (eds.) [2014]: Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw and John M. Fossey. The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity; History, Religion and Archaeology. . Brill, Leiden. 2014., '',

2. Beaudry [2014]: Beaudry, Nicolas. ‘13 Ras el Bassit and the Late Antique Archaeological Landscape of Coastal North Syria’, Aitken et al. (eds.) [2014], 255-272. 2014., '', Online here.

3. Courbin [1986]: Courbin, Paul. ‘Rapport sur les XIIIe et XIVe Campagnes (1983-1984) à Bassit’, Syria (63:3/4), 387-391. 1986, ''Le matériel'', pg. 391. Online here.

4. 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., ''127 Ras el-Bassit'', pg. 510. Online here.