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Tell Nagila (Najilah)

PKC6498
TITLETell Nagila (Najilah)
WGS84 31.502641° N, 34.758007° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 31.502641, 34.758007
LON/LAT 34.758007, 31.502641

DMS 31° 30' 9.5076" N,34° 45' 28.8252" E

W3Wterritories, emphasis, absent
UTM36 R, 666955, 3486648
EGSA87 1524186, 3535636

Elevation m202
Elevation feet 662.7
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 524    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 524, 'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

NOTE

1.  It appears that no Mycenaean or Cypriote ware has been found at the site. For additional reading see S. Bülow and R.A. Mitchell, 'An Iron Age II Fortress on Tel Nagila', Israel Exploration Journal (11:3) 101 - 110. 1961. It can be found here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., ''215 Tell Nagila'', pg. 524. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6498 is at 31.63702° N, 34.52359° E, a straight-line distance of 26 km and 796 m.