Site details

Khan Sheikoun

PK	C6449
TITLE	Khan Sheikoun
WGS84	35.443418° N, 36.646272° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.443418, 36.646272
LON/LAT	36.646272, 35.443418

DMS

35° 26' 36.3048" N

36° 38' 46.5792" E

W3W	whereupon, headboards, contradicted
UTM	37 S, 286364, 3924764
EGSA87	1650627, 3996281

Elevation m	387
Elevation feet	1269.7
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 512    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Pottery.   Du Mesnil du Buisson [1932], 178    'Fragments d'un bol à décor en échelles, ... importation de Chypre, ... '
3.    Pottery.   Stubbings [1951], 60    'Among the Bronze Age pottery reported from this site is a fragment of the shoulder of a Myc. IIIA stirrup-jar.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Du Mesnil du Buisson [1932]: 178, ' ..., importation de Chypre, XVe-XIVe siècle avant J.-C. ... '

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Du Mesnil du Buisson [1932]: 178, ' ..., importation de Chypre, XVe-XIVe siècle avant J.-C. ... '
    b.    Stubbings [1951]: 60, ' ... a Myc. IIIA stirrup-jar.'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 512, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 512, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Du Mesnil du Buisson [1932]: Du Mesnil du Buisson, Robert. ‘Une campagne de fouilles a Khan Sheikhoun’, Syria (13:2), 171-188. 1932., ''Annexe I Céramique de l'Age du Bronze à Khan Sheikhoun'', pg. 177. Online here.

2. Stubbings [1951]: Stubbings, Frank H.. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press. 1951., '', pg. 60.

3. 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., ''139 Khan Sheikoun'', pg. 512. Online here.