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Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos: Hab

PK	C1373
TITLE	Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos: Hab
WGS84	36.368177° N, 28.028968° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.368177, 28.028968
LON/LAT	28.028968, 36.368177

DMS

36° 22' 5.4372" N

28° 1' 44.2848" E

W3W	fronting, crypt, jealousy
UTM	35 S, 592307, 4025277
EGSA87	861368, 4032041

Elevation m	43
Elevation feet	141.1
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson [1981], 196    'On the broad and flat eroded terraces of the ridge, Mycenaean and perhaps other prehistoric sherds were thinly spread over an area about 120 m. east to west by 90 m.'
2.    hab.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 140    'On the broad and eroded upper terraces of the ridge, about 200 m. south of the chapel, we found Mycenaean and prehistoric sherds thinly spread over an area about 120 m. east-west by 90 m.'
3.    Settlement.   Georgiadis [2003], 37    ' ... the identified Mycenaean settlement ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, ' ... Mycenaean settlement ... '

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, '... and a L.H. III Kylix fragment, of buff clay and slip.'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, '...L.H. IIIA 1 vases.'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, '...(L.H. IIIB?)...'

NOTE

1. See the site photograph in Georgiadis [2003] 279, Fig. 5.22.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 37. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos', pg. 196. Online here.

3. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos', pg. 140. Online here.