Site details
Lebanon: Cache
| PK | C6526 |
| TITLE | Lebanon: Cache |
| WGS84 | 34.581011° N, 36.26306° E |
| Accuracy | Unknown |
| LAT/LON | 34.581011, 36.26306 |
| LON/LAT | 36.26306, 34.581011 |
| DMS | 34° 34' 51.6396" N | , | 36° 15' 47.016" E |
| W3W | shots, trod, weird |
| UTM | 37 S, 248949, 3829985 |
| EGSA87 | 1627602, 3895413 |
| Elevation m | 591 |
| Elevation feet | 1939 |
| Region | Levant |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts
TYPE
1. Artifacts. Parrot [1964], 240 ' ... de deux assiettes en or, provenant d'un fouille clandestine, ... '2. Artifacts. Hankey [1967], 116 'Two gold bowls in Beirut Museum (Plate 26 a, b, d, e) are said to have come from a site in Lebanon between Tripoli and Homs.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. Parrot [1964]: 240, ' ... mycéniennes'
NOTES
1. The find was clandestine; its location unknown. M. Parrot [1964] 240 says they were found between Tripoli and Homs, near a refugee village and on Lebanese soil. I have placed the marker notionally.
2. See V. Hankey's searching analysis of these bowls in Hankey [1967] 116-117.
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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., '', pg. 116.
Online here.
2. Parrot [1964]: Parrot, Andre. ‘Acquisitions et inédits du musée du Louvre’, Syria (41:3/4) 213-250. 1964., ''20. - Assiettes Mycéniennes'', pg. 240.
These plates are illustrated here as Pl. XV - XVI
Online here.