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Pyrgos: Makria Magoula

PK	C1345
TITLE	Pyrgos: Makria Magoula
WGS84	39.361515° N, 22.055784° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.361515, 22.055784
LON/LAT	22.055784, 39.361515

DMS

39° 21' 41.454" N

22° 3' 20.8224" E

W3W	lightless, perms, obeys
UTM	34 S, 590956, 4357427
EGSA87	332351, 4358411

Elevation m	121
Elevation feet	397
Region	Thessaly

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Wace and Thompson [1912], 11
2.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 297    'A low mound ... '
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 297    'Here in 1958 EB III, MH Grey Minyan, and a few sherds ... '
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 173    'Prehistoric surface sherds found here in 1958 included a few from Mycenaean stemmed bowls and kylikes.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 297,  Size: 12600 sq. m.  ' ... c. 180 m. E-W by 70 m. at the SW foot of the citadel of Arne-Kierion ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age III: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'N? EB III MH LH III(A-B) C H'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 297, 'Here in 1958 EB III, ... '

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'N? EB III MH LH III(A-B) C H'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 297, ' ..., MH Grey Minyan, ... '

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 297, ' ..., and a few sherds from LH III stemmed bowls and kylikes were found, ... '

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'N? EB III MH LH III(A-B) C H'
    b.    Wace and Thompson [1912]: 11,

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'N? EB III MH LH III(A-B) C H'
    b.    Wace and Thompson [1912]: 11,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'J 6 Pyrgos Kieriou: Makria Magoula', pg. 173. Online here.

2. 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., 'J 9 Pyrgos Kierou: Makria Magoula', pg. 296. Online here.

3. 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., '', pg. 11. Online here.