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Lebanon: Cache

PKC6526
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

W3Wshots, trod, weird
UTM37 S, 248949, 3829985
EGSA87 1627602, 3895413

Elevation m591
Elevation feet 1939
RegionLevant





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.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6526 is at 34.57521° N, 35.99197° E, a straight-line distance of 24 km and 855 m.