Site details

Tsini

PK	C1302
TITLE	Tsini
WGS84	39.350203° N, 22.333322° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	39.350203, 22.333322
LON/LAT	22.333322, 39.350203

DMS

39° 21' 0.7308" N

22° 19' 59.9592" E

W3W	robotic, windbreaker, swaying
UTM	34 S, 614885, 4356488
EGSA87	356240, 4356678

Elevation m	124
Elevation feet	406.8
Region	Phthiotis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 290    'A low mound on the S bank of the Enipeus, near the village of Tsini.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 170    'A fragment from here in the BSA collection is from the neck of an ewer of LH II or LH IIIA1 date.'
3.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 141    '...Wace und Thompson frühbronzezeitiche, Heurtley mittelmykenische Scherben feststellen.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 170, 'N EB? LH II or LH IIIA1'
    b.    Ålin [1962]: 141, '...Wace und Thompson frühbronzezeitiche, ... Scherben feststellen.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 290, 'EB is claimed, but not certain (Ålin loc. cit., but referring to PT loc cit. which does not contain any reference to EB).', PT is Wace and Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly.

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 141, '... Heurtley mittelmykenische Scherben feststellen.'

3. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 170, 'N EB? LH II or LH IIIA1'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 290, '...from the neck of an ewer of LH II or LH IIIA1 date.'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 170, 'N EB? LH II or LH IIIA1'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 290, '...from the neck of an ewer of LH II or LH IIIA1 date.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Tsini', pg. 141.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 49 Tsini', pg. 170. 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 50 Tsini', pg. 290. Online here.