Site details

Tsani Magoula

PK	C1347
TITLE	Tsani Magoula
WGS84	39.334265° N, 22.147468° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.334265, 22.147468
LON/LAT	22.147468, 39.334265

DMS

39° 20' 3.354" N

22° 8' 50.8848" E

W3W	vibrato, sleepers, spoiled
UTM	34 S, 598893, 4354499
EGSA87	340188, 4355221

Elevation m	113
Elevation feet	370.7
Region	Thessaly

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 295    ' ...; MH material ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Wace and Thompson [1912], 145    Figurines (145) and Miscellaneous Objects (149)
3.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 295    'A low mound ... '
4.    Pottery.   Wace and Thompson [1912], 136
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 173    '..some Middle Helladic material and a single Mycenaean plain kylix stem were found in the top stratum.'
6.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 142    ' ... sowie eine mykenische Scherbe.'
7.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 295    ' ... and a single kylix-stem ... '

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 295,  Size: 7665 sq. m.  'A low mound c. 105 m. by 73 m., ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age I: (3300 BC - 3000 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'

2. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 142, ' ..., weiter früh- und mittelhelladische Ware ... '

3. Early Bronze Age II: (3000 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'

4. Early Bronze Age III: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'

5. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'
    b.    Ålin [1962]: 142, ' ..., weiter früh- und mittelhelladische Ware ... '
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 295, ' ...; MH material ... '
    d.    Wace and Thompson [1912]: 145, 'Minyan ware.'

6. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 142, ' ... sowie eine mykenische Scherbe.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 295, ? ' ... and a single kylix-stem were found near the surface.'
    c.    Wace and Thompson [1912]: 145, 'Mycenaean (L.M. III) ware. .... part of a plain kylix stem.'

7. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'

8. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 173, 'EB I-III MH LH III(A2-B)'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Tsani', pg. 142.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'J 2 Tsani Magoula', pg. 173. 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., 'J 5 Tsani Magoula', pg. 295. 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., 'Western Thessaly, Tsani Maghula', pg. 136. Online here.