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Asteri: Dhragatsoula

PKC1105
TITLEAsteri: Dhragatsoula
WGS84 36.830838° N, 22.733328° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 36.830838, 22.733328
LON/LAT 22.733328, 36.830838

DMS 36° 49' 51.0168" N,22° 43' 59.9808" E

W3Wthrilling, tactic, begs
UTM34 S, 654572, 4077509
EGSA87 386895, 4076567

Elevation m23
Elevation feet 75.5
RegionLaconia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    hab.   Laconia I, 89    'This small prehistoric site was occupied throughout the Bronze Age.'
2.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 115    ? 'A small flat-topped hillock, c. 500 m. ESE of Asteri, ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 106    'Sherds here were mainly EH II, and only two LH III were found.'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Janko [2011], 108    'Only two MH and two LH III diagnostic sherds were found, probably indicating no more than a Mycenaean 'farm'. '
5.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 95    'Simpson fand hier Scherben aus FH, MH und SH, ... '
6.    Sherds.   Banou [1996], 56    '... wo Hope Simpson in alle Perioden der Bronzezeit datierbare Scherben gefunden hatte...'


SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 106,  Size: 16800 sq. m.  'The site itself is not impressive.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Laconia I: 89, 'This small prehistoric site was occupied throughout the Bronze Age.'

2. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Janko [2011]: 108, 'EH (sherds, RHC) were by far the most abundant.'
    b.    Ålin [1962]: 95, 'Simpson fand hier Scherben aus FH, MH und SH, ... '

3. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 106, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 115, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'

4. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 106, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Janko [2011]: 108, 'Only two MH ... sherds were found. ...'
    c.    Ålin [1962]: 95, 'Simpson fand hier Scherben aus FH, MH und SH, ... '
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 115, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'

5. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Janko [2011]: 108, '... two LH III diagnostic sherds were found, ...'
    b.    Banou [1996]: 57, '... die (Sherds, RHC) im SHIII datieren...'
    c.    Ålin [1962]: 95, 'Simpson fand hier Scherben aus FH, MH und SH III, aus der letzten Periode 2 Kylixfragmente.'

6. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 106, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 115, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 106, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 115, 'EH II MH LH III(A-B)'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

2.  Banou [1996]:  Banou, Emilia. Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg. 1996, '33. Asteri: Dragatsoula', pg. 56.

3.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 23 Asteri: Dhragatsoula', pg. 106. Online here.

4.  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 26 Asteri: Dhragatsoula', pg. 115. Online here.

5.  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, '23. Asteri: Dragatsoula', pg. 108. Online here.

6.  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, 'Asteri (Dhragatsoula)', pg. 89. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1105 is at 36.8051° N, 22.73411° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 866 m.