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Tell ‘Ain Sherif (Cherif)

PKC6465
TITLETell ‘Ain Sherif (Cherif)
WGS84 33.89124° N, 36.02615° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 33.89124, 36.02615
LON/LAT 36.02615, 33.89124

DMS 33° 53' 28.464" N,36° 1' 34.14" E

W3Wcrisped, maroons, skimpy
UTM37 S, 224975, 3754079
EGSA87 1614943, 3815641

Elevation m942
Elevation feet 3090.6
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Hankey [1967], 115    'Indeterminate Mycenaean sherds were found, among them one decorated in the Rude Style, with a spiral tree ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 115, ' ... Mycenaean sherds ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 119, 'Myc. IIIB.'

NOTE

1.  Position taken from the Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land, https://daahl.ucsd.edu/DAAHL/

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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., ''15. Tell Ain Sherif'', pg. 119. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6465 is at 33.99775° N, 35.64337° E, a straight-line distance of 37 km and 283 m.