Site details
Tell ‘Arqa
| PK | C6448 |
| TITLE | Tell ‘Arqa |
| WGS84 | 34.53049° N, 36.04661° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 34.53049, 36.04661 |
| LON/LAT | 36.04661, 34.53049 |
| DMS | 34° 31' 49.764" N | , | 36° 2' 47.796" E |
| W3W | complication, equip, translators |
| UTM | 37 S, 228925, 3824941 |
| EGSA87 | 1608277, 3887321 |
| Elevation m | 139 |
| Elevation feet | 456 |
| Region | Levant |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. van Wijngaarden [1999], 512 'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [1999]: 512, 'EARLIEST: LHIII'
NOTES
1. Additional: Hankey, V., "Pottery as evidence for trade: the Levant from the mouth of the Orontes to the Egyptian border", in Zerner et al. (edd.) [1993] Wace and Biegen. Pottery as evidence for trade in the Aegean Bronze Age, pp. 101-8. Amsterdam, 1993. Specifically p. 106, site no. 23.
2. An interesting sketch and bibliography of Tell 'Arqa is at the Treccani website: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tell-arqa_%28Enciclopedia-dell%27-Arte-Antica%29/ The Tell is several times referred to in the Amarna letters under the name 'Irqata'.
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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., ''138 Tell ’Arqa'', pg. 512.
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