Site details

Tell Sippor (Zippor) or Tell et-Tuyur

PK	C6501
TITLE	Tell Sippor (Zippor) or Tell et–Tuyur
WGS84	31.654592° N, 34.733802° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	31.654592, 34.733802
LON/LAT	34.733802, 31.654592

DMS

31° 39' 16.5312" N

34° 44' 1.6872" E

W3W	unfrozen, triads, league
UTM	36 R, 664389, 3503456
EGSA87	1520184, 3552381

Elevation m	77
Elevation feet	252.6
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Biran and Negbi [1963], 339    'Typical local wares and imported Cypriot and Mycenaean vessels were found.'
2.    Pottery.   Yannai [2000], 208    'The pyxis (No. 17) is an imitation of the widely used Mycenaean vessel, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Biran and Negbi [1963]: 339, ' ... Mycenaean vessels ... '
    b.    Yannai [2000]: 208, ' ..., which appears in all the LB ceramic assemblages in the south of the country.'
    c.    Yannai [2000]: 213, 'I am also presenting a fragment of a tall, narrow pedestal (No. 11) from a Late Hellenistic IIIb Mycenaean chalice.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Biran and Negbi [1963]: Biran, A and Ora Negbi. ‘Tell Sippor’, Israel Exploration Journal (13:4) 338 - 340. 1963., '', pg. 339. Online here.

2. Yannai [2000]: Yannai, Eli. ‘A Re-evaluation of the Late Bronze Pottery from Tel ?ippor’, Israel Exploration Journal (50:3/4) 203 - 215., ''Pottery from Stratum V'', pg. 208. Online here.

3. Yannai [2000]: Yannai, Eli. ‘A Re-evaluation of the Late Bronze Pottery from Tel ?ippor’, Israel Exploration Journal (50:3/4) 203 - 215., ''Pottery from Stratum V'', pg. 213. Online here.