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Souphli Magoula

PK	C1267
TITLE	Souphli Magoula
WGS84	39.676846° N, 22.447937° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.676846, 22.447937
LON/LAT	22.447937, 39.676846

DMS

39° 40' 36.6456" N

22° 26' 52.5732" E

W3W	quietly, marathon, with
UTM	34 S, 624179, 4392893
EGSA87	366741, 4392756

Elevation m	67
Elevation feet	219.8
Region	Pelasgiotis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 282    ' ... a remarkable stele of uncertain date ... '
2.    Hab.   Simpson [1981], 166    'Pottery found in trial excavations near the stele includes at least one LH IIB/IIIA1 fragment ... and a child's cist grave containing an askos and an amber bead is presumably Mycenaean.'
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 282    'Pottery found is mainly N, with some BA; ... '
4.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 139    'Bei einer kleineren Grabung unterhalb machte H. Biesantz 1958 prähistorische Scherbenfunde ..'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age I: (3300 BC - 3000 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)'

2. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 282, ' ..., with some BA, ... '

3. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 282, ' ... includes a few N, EB, MH ... '

4. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 282, ' ... includes a few N, EB, MH ... '

5. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 139, '..und grub ein mykenisches Kistengrab aus.'

6. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 139, '..stammen ein paar spätminysche Vasen, durch die das Grab als frühmykenisch angenommen wird.'

7. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 139, '..auch eine (Sherd, RHC) mit Schuppenmuster, die in SH II datiert wird.'

8. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)', ' ... includes at least one LH IIB/IIIA1 fragment ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 282, ' ... and at least one LH IIB/IIIA1 (sherd, RHC) ... '

9. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)'

10. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)', ' ... includes at least one LH IIB/IIIA1 fragment ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 282, ' ... and at least one LH IIB/IIIA1 (sherd, RHC) ... '

11. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB I MH LH IIB/IIIA1 LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Ålin [1962]: 139, 'Ein Kistengrab enthielt eine Kindbestattung mit einem Askos, dessen Datierung in IIIB vermutet wird.'

NOTE

1.

Fimmen [1921] 4 mentions a place called 'Suphlar' from which Mycenaean sherds in the National Museum in Athens are supposed to have come.
Ålin [1962] 142 picks this up as 'Suphlar' and mentions the sherds. He adds a note (44) 'Wird hier viell. Tsuflar, etwas sudlich von Sophades, gemeint?'
Simpson [1965] 151, no. 505 Souphli Magoula, says this: "It is possible that Souphli may be the real provenance of the sherds said to have come from "Suphlar" (Fimmen KMK 4, and Ålin EMF 142), although the name Suflar or Tsuflar appears in at least three different places in Thessaly."

I cannot test Ålin's assertion because I cannot find a place 'Tsuflar' south of Sophades. I am using Souphli Magoula as a placeholder for 'Suphlar' but not because I can give any real assurance that this is the right place.

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Soufli', pg. 139.

2. Fimmen [1921]: Fimmen, Dietrich. Die Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur. Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, Leipzig und Berlin. 1921., 'Suphlar', pg. 4. Online here.

3. Simpson [1965]: Simpson, R. Hope. A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites. London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1965., '505 Souphli Magoula', pg. 151.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 24 Souphli Magoula', pg. 166. Online here.

5. 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., 'H 24 Souphli Magoula', pg. 282. Online here.