Site details
Atlit
| PK | C6490 |
| TITLE | Atlit |
| WGS84 | 32.704939° N, 34.934425° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 32.704939, 34.934425 |
| LON/LAT | 34.934425, 32.704939 |
| DMS | 32° 42' 17.7804" N | , | 34° 56' 3.93" E |
| W3W | recycler, chug, homages |
| UTM | 36 S, 681319, 3620231 |
| EGSA87 | 1527283, 3671651 |
| Elevation m | 9 |
| Elevation feet | 29.5 |
| Region | Levant |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds
TYPE
1. Pottery. Johns [1933], 147 'The whole group may be dated to the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age c. 1600-1400 B.C., not much earlier than typical Late Bronze sherds, painted red on buff, which were picked up in the surrounding filling, or scattered Mycenaean sherds picked up in the south-eastern cemetery.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Johns [1933]: 147, ? ' ... or scattered Mycenaean sherds picked up in the south-eastern cemetery.'
NOTE
1. Johns [1933] 149 adds 'On the one hand there was one painted in black on buff with a marine motif of Mycenaean derivation, ...; on the other, sherds of Cypriote red slip ware with mechanical bands in black; ... '
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Johns [1933]: Johns, C.N.. ‘Excacations at Pilgrim’s Castle, ‘Atlit, (1932); The Ancient tell and the Outer Defences of the Castle’, Quarterly Of The Department Of Antiquities In Palestine (3), 145-164 (and plates). 1933., '', pg. 147.
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