Site details

Minet el-Beida

PK	C6435
TITLE	Minet el–Beida
WGS84	35.605409° N, 35.773379° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.605409, 35.773379
LON/LAT	35.773379, 35.605409

DMS

35° 36' 19.4724" N

35° 46' 24.1644" E

W3W	multiply, stunningly, homemaking
UTM	36 S, 751229, 3943726
EGSA87	1568633, 4004354

Elevation m	7
Elevation feet	23
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 510    Find a complete catalogue of the Mycenaean finds at Minet el-Beida in Catalogue II of van Wijngaarden [1999], p. 549 ff.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 554, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

2. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 554, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

3. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 554, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

4. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 554, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

5. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 552, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

6. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 550, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 550, In van Wijngaarden [1999], Catalogue II, passim

NOTES

1. A photograph of the harbor as it looked in 1933 may be found here.

2. The corpus of ceramics from Ras Shamra and Minet el-Beida may be found in Claude F. A. Schaeffer's 1949 'Ugaritica II: Nouvelles Études Relatives aux Découvertes de Ras Shamra' beginning at p. 131. This book 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., ''129 Minet el-Beida'', pg. 510. Online here.