Site details

Mandhra: Chazna: Hab

PK	C125
TITLE	Mandhra: Chazna: Hab
WGS84	37.309255° N, 21.92323° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.309255, 21.92323
LON/LAT	21.92323, 37.309255

DMS

37° 18' 33.318" N

21° 55' 23.628" E

W3W	oxtails, working, century
UTM	34 S, 581812, 4129579
EGSA87	315808, 4130914

Elevation m	132
Elevation feet	433.1
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Simpson [1981], 141    'A small Mycenaean habitation site was subsequently found about 200 m. west-southwest of Mandhra and about 100 m. south of the tholos.'
2.    Hab.   Messenia III, 142    ' ... has shown that there was a small Mycenaean site on the S and SE slopes of the low ridge above the modern village and about 100 m. S of the tholos tomb.'
3.    Hab.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 294    'HAB-CEM. ..'
4.    Settlement.   Zavadil [2012], 494    'Siedlung : Die zugehörige Siedlung dürfte sich etwa 100 m südlich der Tholos am Süd- und Südosthang eines niedrigen Hügelrückens etwa 200 m westsüdwestlich oberhalb des modernen Dorfes befunden haben.'
5.    Sherds.   Messenia III, 142    'Pottery was found only on the slopes over an area about 100 m. E-W by 50 m., ... '

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 141,  Size: 5000 sq. m.  'Sherds were found ..., in an area about 100 m. east to west by 50 m.'

- Messenia III  p. 142,  Size: 5000 sq. m.   'Pottery was found only on the slopes over an area about 100 m. E-W by 50 m., but the top of the limestone ridge is heavily eroded and may have been included in the inhabited area.'

- McDonald and Rapp [1972]  p. ,  Size: 5000 sq. m.  HAB-CEM. ..

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Messenia III: 142, 'A sherd from a thin-walled open shape could be MH or EH.'
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 294, 'EH?'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Messenia III: 142, 'A sherd from a thin-walled open shape could be MH or EH.'
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 294, 'MH?'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 294, 'LH'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. McDonald and Rapp [1972]: McDonald, William A. and George R. Rapp, Jr.. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 1972, '217 (30) Mandhra: Chazna', pg. 294.

2. Messenia III: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1964-1968’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 123-177., '30. Chasna (Mandhra)', pg. 142. Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 235 Mandhra: Chazna', pg. 141. Online here.

4. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'MANDRA (GLIATA)/CHASNA (EP. MESSINIS)', pg. 493. Online here.