Site details

Apollona: Lelos: Cem

PK	C1382
TITLE	Apollona: Lelos: Cem
WGS84	36.251968° N, 27.923885° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.251968, 27.923885
LON/LAT	27.923885, 36.251968

DMS

36° 15' 7.0848" N

27° 55' 25.986" E

W3W	motives, darns, tennis
UTM	35 S, 583003, 4012292
EGSA87	852458, 4018754

Elevation m	357
Elevation feet	1171.3
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 351    'Seven LH chamber tombs were excavated here, and two others were found empty.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 144    'Seven Mycenaean chamber tombs were excavated here, and two others were found empty ...'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 197    'seven Mycenaean chamber tombs were excavated here, and two others were found empty. The tombs are all in the upper part of the spur, ...'
4.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 351    'The vases recovered are of the LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB periods.'
5.    Tomb.   Georgiadis [2003], 37    '...and most of the nine tombs were found, ...','The dromoi of the tombs faced west ..., north-west and south-west ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 351, 'The vases recovered are of the LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB periods.'

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 197, 'LHIII A2-B'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 144, 'The vases recovered are of the L.H. IIIA 2 and L.H. IIIB periods.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '...and was in use from the LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 197, 'LHIII A2-B'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 144, 'The vases recovered are of the L.H. IIIA 2 and L.H. IIIB periods.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '...and was in use from the LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 351, 'The vases recovered are of the LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB periods.'

4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '...and was in use from the LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'

NOTE

1. The location was derived by recreating in Google Earth the views in Georgiadis [2003] figs. 5.27, 5.28.

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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., 'Apollona: Lelos', pg. 197. 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., 'Apollona: Lelos', pg. 144. Online here.

4. 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., 'Apollona: Lelos', pg. 351. Online here.