Site details

Jerusalem

PK	C6525
TITLE	Jerusalem
WGS84	31.778055° N, 35.241669° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	31.778055, 35.241669
LON/LAT	35.241669, 31.778055

DMS

31° 46' 40.998" N

35° 14' 30.0084" E

W3W	pint, petted, trifle
UTM	36 R, 712270, 3518023
EGSA87	1567290, 3571131

Elevation m	749
Elevation feet	2457.3
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Hankey [1967], 143    'A few Mycenaean and WS II sherds were found ...','Two Mycenaean pieces were found at the Jebusite burial place opposite the city.'
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 521    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 143, ' ... and the jar may be L.M. IIIA 2.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Hankey [1967]: 143, 'The sherds are IIIA 2 ... '
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 521, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 521, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

NOTES

1. As one of his sources van Wijngaarden [1999] 521 lists 'PE 95 (1963), 13' which I take to mean Kathleen M. Kenyon's 'Excavations in Jerusalem, 1962', Palestine Exploration Quarterly (95) 7-21. I did not have access to this at the time of writing.

2. The jars appear to come from Mt. Olivet. I have placed the marker on the Church Dominus Flevit.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., ''45. Jerusalem'', pg. 143. 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., ''196 Jerusalem'', pg. 521. Online here.