Site details

Tell Daruk (Usnu)

PK	C6444
TITLE	Tell Daruk (Usnu)
WGS84	35.269722° N, 35.946389° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.269722, 35.946389
LON/LAT	35.946389, 35.269722

DMS

35° 16' 10.9992" N

35° 56' 47.0004" E

W3W	dropping, inherit, psychical
UTM	36 S, 768017, 3906936
EGSA87	1589010, 3968792

Elevation m	15
Elevation feet	49.2
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Oldenburg and Rohweder [1981], 52    'Mycenaean pottery Only two examples were found. One of them (Layer 16) is of fine red clay with white slip, and with a curved band in dark brown paint. The other (233 Fig. 46, TD 287, Layer 7, 3.3 X3.0cm) is of fine clay with a matt reddish-brown painted band. Late Helladic (III?).'
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 511    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Oldenburg and Rohweder [1981]: 52, 'Late Helladic (III?).'

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Oldenburg and Rohweder [1981]: 52, 'Late Helladic (III?).'
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 511, 'EARLIEST: LHIII'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Oldenburg and Rohweder [1981]: Oldenburg, Evelyn and Jorgen Rohweder. The Excavations at Tall Daruk (Usnu?) and 'Arab al-Mulk (Paltos). Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter 10:3. København 1981., ''Mycenaean pottery'', pg. 52. Online here.

2. 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., ''133 Tell Daruk'', pg. 511. Online here.