Site details

Dimini: Mycenaean Hab

PK	C1271
TITLE	Dimini: Mycenaean Hab
WGS84	39.36109° N, 22.893942° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.36109, 22.893942
LON/LAT	22.893942, 39.36109

DMS

39° 21' 39.924" N

22° 53' 38.1912" E

W3W	perfect, visitor, fuzzy
UTM	34 S, 663169, 4358559
EGSA87	404563, 4357145

Elevation m	23
Elevation feet	75.5
Region	Pelasgiotis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 275    'A mound-site, ... '
2.    Settlement.   Mee and Spawforth [2001], 363    '..an extensive Myenaean settlement on the south-eastern side of the mound...'
3.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 163    ' ..., suggesting that Mycenaean settlement was concentrated there, ... ', i.e. habitation was concentrated on the lower terraces.
4.    Wall.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 275    ' ..., and only a long defensive trench, some walls, and graves are assigned to the BA.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 275,  Size: 9900 sq. m.  ' ..., c. 110 m. NE-SW by 90 m., ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 275, 'The graves include cists, mostly late MH ... '

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 362, '..an extensive Myenaean town...'
    b.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 362, Possibly the actual Iolkos.

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 163, ' ..., and the remains of a burial deposit apparently LH IIIA.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 275, ' ..., a burial-deposit assignable to LH IIIA, ... '

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 163, 'Two Mycenaean cist graves of the LH IIIA2 period were found, ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 275, ' ... but in two cases LH IIIA2, ... '

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 362,
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 163, ' ... LH IIA-IIIB'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 275, ' ..., suggests that it was inhabited in all BA phases to LH IIIB.'

NOTES

1.  Simpson [1981] 163, 'H 3 Dimini Toumba' suggests that the Mycenaean settlement here was not particularly significant and so the tholos tombs (C1272, C1686) may more probably be associated with Mycenaean Iolkos.

2.  For a discussion of Dhimini see Wace and Thompson [1912] 75-85. An (old) plan of Dhimini mound is on p. 80.

3.  Thought by some, see Mee and Spawforth [2001] 362, to be the actual site of Iolkos.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Mee and Spawforth [2001]: Mee, Christopher and Antony Spawforth. Greece; An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street. Oxford. 2001. , 'Dimini', pg. 362.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 3 Dimini: Toumba', pg. 163. 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., 'H 3 Dhimini: Toumba', pg. 275. Online here.

4. Wace and Thompson [1912]: Wace, Alan John Bayard and Maurice Scott Thompson. Prehistoric Thessaly; Being Some Account of Recent Excavations and Explorations in North-Eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the Borders of Macedonia. . Cambridge at the University Press, 1912., '', Online here.