Site details

Stafylos

PK	C1157
TITLE	Stafylos
WGS84	39.083397° N, 23.751651° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	39.083397, 23.751651
LON/LAT	23.751651, 39.083397

DMS

39° 5' 0.2292" N

23° 45' 5.9436" E

W3W	encountered, skies, mailed
UTM	34 S, 738009, 4329636
EGSA87	478371, 4325774

Elevation m	22
Elevation feet	72.2
Region	Sporades
Subregion	Skopelos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 346    ' ... much pottery, bronzes, a gold sword-hilt and head-band very similar in their decoration to those of the Shaft Graves, and other objects.'
2.    Cem.   Simpson [1981], 185    'A rectangular built tomb was found on a hill near Cape Staphylos at the southeast tip of Skopelos.'
3.    Tomb.   BCH [1938], 481    '...un tombeau mycénien, ...'
4.    Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 346    ' ... a partly disturbed rectangular built tomb was excavated.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    BCH [1938]: 481, '...un tombeau mycénien, ...'

2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 346, 'One of the vases might be LM ... '

3. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'LH IIA-III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 346, 'One or two of the vases seem as early as LH IIA, ... '

4. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'LH IIA-III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 346, ' ..., but the bulk are LH IIB-IIIA1, ... '

5. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'LH IIA-III(A-B)'

6. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, '...together with several vases, most of which are LH IIB-IIIA1'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 346, ' ..., but the bulk are LH IIB-IIIA1, ... '

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'LH IIA-III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 346, 'LH IIA - III(A-B)'

NOTES

1. This placement is notional. The marker is placed on a small promontory at Cape Staphylos but whether the tomb was found on that promontory or not is not clear. Topoguide shows 'Remnants' on the neck of Staphylos approximately here: 39.084314, 23.752155. This is about 113 m. to the north of the marked spot.

2. See N. Platon, "The Grave of Staphylos and the Minoan Settlement of the Peparethou", Cretica Chronica (III), 534 ff., 1949. Online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH [1938]: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 62, 1938., 'Skopélos', pg. 481. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Skopelos: Cape Staphylos', pg. 185. 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., 'Cape Staphylos', pg. 346. Online here.