Balos/Mpalos
| PK | C1197 |
| TITLE | Balos∕Mpalos |
| WGS84 | 36.362437° N, 25.394799° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 36.362437, 25.394799 |
| LON/LAT | 25.394799, 36.362437 |
| DMS | 36° 21' 44.7732" N | , | 25° 23' 41.2764" E |
| W3W | force, biographies, reservoirs |
| UTM | 35 S, 355986.28, 4025345.48 |
| EGSA87 | 624988, 4024764 |
| Elevation m | 57 |
| Elevation feet | 187 |
| Region | Cyclades |
| Subregion | Thera |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab
TYPE
1. Building. Schallin [1993], 24 'Northwest of Akrotiri, close to the caldera cliff, a couple of buildings were excavated by Gorceix and Mamet.'2. Building. Davis and Cherry [1990], 190 'Two buildings were excavated in 1870, one a substantial house ... '
3. Hab. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 344 'A farmhouse or similar establishment was excavated here, ... '
4. hab. Simpson [1981], 191 'A farmhouse or similar building was excavated here, ...'
5. hab. Fouqué [1998], 118
6. Hab. Barber [1981], 20 'A country farmstead complex, inland before the eruption, ... '
7. Wall. Fouqué [1998], 118 ' ..., and from the first day they began to uncover the tops of walls belonging to buildings constructed on the lava bed.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
a. Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, 'Fine wares of a sort well known from Akrotiri indicate occupation in LC I ... '
b. Barber [1981]: 20, ' ..., occupied in LC I.'
2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Schallin [1993]: 24, Implied.
3. Late Bronze I: (1570 BC - 1400 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 191, 'LB I'
b. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 344, 'LB I'
NOTES
1. Fouqué says '.. at the edge of the cliff northwest of the village of Akrotiri. For a period of about fifteen years, pumice was mined in the area above the small harbor of Balos.'
2. For a diagram of the house found in these early excavations see Fouquet [1998] 119.
3. The position of Balos was established exactly from photographs 4a-d in Friedrich [2021] 335.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Barber [1981]: Barber, R.L.N.. ‘The Late Cycladic Period: A Review’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (76), pp. 1-21, 1981., '41. Balos', pg. 20.
Online here.
2. Davis and Cherry [1990]: Davis, J.L. and J.F. Cherry. ‘Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri’, In Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990] 185-200, 'Balos', pg. 190.
Online here.
3. Fouqué [1998]: Fouqué, Ferdinand A.. Santorini and its Eruptions. Translated and Annotated by Alexander R. McBirney. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1998. , '', pg. 118.
I believe that this is the passage to which Simpson [1981] 191 refers in his note 'Balos' which reads 'Fouqué (1879) 107.'
Online here.
4. Friedrich et al. [2021]: Friedrich, Walter L. with J. Richard Wilson, Annette Højen Sørensen and Samson Katsipis. ‘Synchronous Pumice Mantle Found on Santorini Volcano, pp. 329-346’, International Journal of Geosciences (12:4), '', Online here.
5. Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990]: Hardy, D.A. et al. (eds.). Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume one. Archaeology. . Proceedings of the third international congress Santorini, Greece 3-9 September 1989., '',
6. Mamet and Gorceix [1870]: Mamet, C. and H. Gorceix. ‘Recherches et fouilles faites a Théra (Sântorin) par MM. Mamet et Gorceix’, Bulletin de l'École Française d'Athènes, no. IX (Mai 1870), '', Online here.
7. Schallin [1993]: Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '51. Balos', pg. 24.
8. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Thera: Balos', pg. 191.
Online here.
9. 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., 'Balos', pg. 344.
Online here.