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Tell el-Farah (North)

PK	C6478
TITLE	Tell el–Farah (North)
WGS84	32.286576° N, 35.339616° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	32.286576, 35.339616
LON/LAT	35.339616, 32.286576

DMS

32° 17' 11.6736" N

35° 20' 22.6176" E

W3W	unscramble, casserole, sapphires
UTM	36 S, 720326, 3574605
EGSA87	1570596, 3628963

Elevation m	189
Elevation feet	620.1
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   de Vaux [1951a], 568    'Le vase mycénien, fig. 3, 1, est un type commun ... '
2.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 130    ' ..., with a small BR II jug.'
3.    Sherds.   Hankey [1967], 130    'During excavations directed by the Revd. Père de Vaux one Mycenaean sherd was found in the Late Bronze city levels ... '
4.    Sherds.   de Vaux [1951], 405    ' ... et un tesson mycénien.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    de Vaux [1951]: 405, ' ... et un tesson mycénien.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 130, 'The pattern is almost identical with the pattern on a cup from the Royal Villa, Knossos, and dated L.M. IIIA I to early IIIA 2 by Popham, who equates these periods chronologically with the corresponding phases of Mycenaean pottery.'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 130, ' ... Late Bronze city levels ... '

4. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: , 'The pattern is almost identical with the pattern on a cup from the Royal Villa, Knossos, and dated L.M. IIIA I to early IIIA 2 by Popham, who equates these periods chronologically with the corresponding phases of Mycenaean pottery.'

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    de Vaux [1951a]: 568, ' ... est un type commun au Mycénien III A2 de Furumark (1400-1300).'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. de Vaux [1951]: de Vaux, Roland. ‘La Troisième Campagne de Fouilles a Tell El-Far'ah, près Naplouse’, Revue Biblique (58:3) 393-430. 1951., ''III. - Niveau 4 - Récent Bronze'', pg. 405. Online here.

2. de Vaux [1951a]: de Vaux, Roland. ‘La Troisième Campagne de Fouilles a Tell El Far'ah près Naplouse: Rapport Préliminaire’, Revue Biblique (58:4) 566-590. 1951., '', pg. 568. Paragraph beginning 'Tout le reste du matériel, ... '
Online here.

3. 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., ''35. Tell El Farah'', pg. 130. Online here.