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Tell Yin‘am

PKC6513
TITLETell Yin‘am
WGS84 32.716153° N, 35.521528° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 32.716153, 35.521528
LON/LAT 35.521528, 32.716153

DMS 32° 42' 58.1508" N,35° 31' 17.5008" E

W3Wseesaws, feathered, dismissive
UTM36 S, 736334, 3622632
EGSA87 1582611, 3678855

Elevation m-97
Elevation feet -318.2
RegionLevant





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 516    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
2.    Pottery.   Liebowitz [1981], 86    'The major part of a LM IIIB pyxis ... ', 'A sherd of a Mycenean stirrip (sic) jar was found in a non-stratified context.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Bronze II: (1400 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Liebowitz [1981]: 86, ' ... and body sherds of two additional pyxides with LB II parallels at Hazor ... and help establish a late 13th century date for the assemblage.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 516, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Liebowitz [1981]: 86, 'The major part of a LM IIIB pyxis ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 516, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTE

1.  Additional bibliography for Tell Yin'am

Leonard Jr., A. An Index to the Late Bronze Age pottery from Syria-Palestine, SIMA 114, Jonsered.

Liebowitz, Harold and Robert L. Folk, 'Archaeological Geology of Tel Yin'am, Galilee, Israel', Journal of Field Archaeology (7:1) 23 - 42, 1980.

Liebowitz, Harold A., Tel Yin'am I: the Late Bronze Age: excavations at Tel Yin'am, 1976-1989. Studies in Archaeology 42: Austin 2003, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas xvi; 432 pp.



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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Liebowitz [1981]:  Liebowitz, Harold. ‘Excavations at Tel Yin'am: The 1976 and 1977 Seasons: Preliminary Report’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (243:Summer) 79-94. 1981., ''Mycenaean ware and their local imitations.'', pg. 86. Online here.

2.  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., ''167 Tell Yin’am'', pg. 516. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6513 is at 32.85802° N, 35.06611° E, a straight-line distance of 45 km and 451 m.