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Minet el-Rouman/Roumman

PKC6458
TITLEMinet el–Rouman∕Roumman
WGS84 33.550286° N, 35.36782° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 33.550286, 35.36782
LON/LAT 35.36782, 33.550286

DMS 33° 33' 1.0296" N,35° 22' 4.152" E

W3Wstate, sitting, pads
UTM36 S, 719833, 3714806
EGSA87 1557844, 3770470

Elevation m8
Elevation feet 26.2
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 120    'A large cemetery was found during building operations at Minet el Rouman immediately south of the town. ... With a BR II jug and a WS II bowl was a Myc. III A2 piriform jar with two instead of three handles, ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 120, ' ... a Myc. III A2 piriform jar with two instead of three handles, ... '

NOTE

1.  Marker placed notionally S of Sidon. I cannot find this name on modern maps.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hankey [1967]:  Hankey, Vronwy. ‘Mycenaean Pottery in the Middle East: Note on Finds since 1951’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (62) 107-147. 1967., ''19. Sidon (Saida)'', pg. 120. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6458 is at 33.5531° N, 35.36301° E, a straight-line distance of 545 m.