Site details

Spira

PK	C1127
TITLE	Spira
WGS84	36.507854° N, 22.484549° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	36.507854, 22.484549
LON/LAT	22.484549, 36.507854

DMS

36° 30' 28.2744" N

22° 29' 4.3764" E

W3W	shoeless, occulted, orientation
UTM	34 S, 632940, 4041304
EGSA87	364143, 4041059

Elevation m	127
Elevation feet	416.7
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 120    'The traces of habitation are insignificant, but may possibly be connected with the ancient quarrying of Antico Rosso in the mountains ... to the W.'
2.    Settlement.   Banou [1996], 61    No direct evidence but Banou says '...spricht die typische Lage des Vergleichweise fruchtbaren mitten im unfruchtbaren Land liegenden und auf den kleinen Strand herrschenden Hügels für die Existenz einer kleinen mykenischen Siedlung hier, ...'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 109    '...some EH sherds and others probably LH were found.'
4.    Sherds.   Laconia II, 119    'On the west slope of the hill of Spira (..) near Kyprianon, in the olive groves below a farm, were fragments of Bronze Age coarse pottery, some of which are probably L.H., ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 109, 'EH LH? C'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 120, 'EH LH? C'
    c.    Banou [1996]: 20, 'FH SH?'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 109, 'EH LH? C'
    b.    Laconia II: 119, '..are probably L.H., ...'
    c.    Banou [1996]: 61, '...einer kleinen mykenischen Siedlung...'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 120, 'EH LH? C'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Banou [1996]: Banou, Emilia. Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg. 1996, '41. Spira', pg. 61.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 43 Spira', pg. 109. 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 47 Spira', pg. 120. Online here.

4. Laconia II: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'The Antico Rosso Quarries near Lagia', pg. 119. Online here.