Site details

Vlakhioti: South-East

PK	C1099
TITLE	Vlakhioti: South–East
WGS84	36.855631° N, 22.714303° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.855631, 22.714303
LON/LAT	22.714303, 36.855631

DMS

36° 51' 20.2716" N

22° 42' 51.4908" E

W3W	segue, efficient, lemmings
UTM	34 S, 652826, 4080229
EGSA87	385236, 4079340

Elevation m	64
Elevation feet	210
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson and Janko [2011], 107    'This was probably only a Mycenaean 'farm'.'
2.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 114    '..sporadic traces of settlement...'
3.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 106    'Sporadic traces of LH III settlement were found ...'
4.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 95    'Bei einem Bauernhaus sudostlich davon fand Simpson einige Scherben ... '
5.    Sherds.   Laconia I, 92    'Near it (a farmhouse, rhc) a few classical and L.H. III sherds were found.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 114, 'EH II LH C H'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Janko [2011]: 107, 'A small Mycenaean site, ...'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 114, 'EH II LH C H'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 106, 'Sporadic traces of LH III settlement were found ... ', 'EH II LH III C H'
    b.    Laconia I: 92, '...L.H. III sherds...'
    c.    Simpson and Janko [2011]: 107, 'A few LH III and classical sherds were found a short distance southwest of Vlachioti, ... '

NOTE

1. This placement is guess-work. It appears to fit the criterion in Laconia I, p. 92, 'The Vlakhioti Area'

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Vlakhioti', pg. 95.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 20 Vlakhioti: Kokkinadha etc.', pg. 106. Online here.

3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'C 23 Vlakhioti: Kokkinadha etc.', pg. 114. Online here.

4. Simpson and Janko [2011]: Simpson, Richard Hope and Richard Janko. ‘Ayios Stephanos in Southern Laconia and the Locations of Ancient Helos’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, 53, pp. 97-130, 2011, '20A. Vlachioti (Southeast)', pg. 107. Online here.

5. Laconia I: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part I’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 55, pp.67-107, 1960, 'The Vlakhioti Area', pg. 92. Online here.