Site details

Asklipio

PK	C1396
TITLE	Asklipio
WGS84	36.072294° N, 27.92859° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.072294, 27.92859
LON/LAT	27.92859, 36.072294

DMS

36° 4' 20.2584" N

27° 55' 42.924" E

W3W	skylights, feeder, incur
UTM	35 S, 583616, 3992366
EGSA87	853689, 3998827

Elevation m	161
Elevation feet	528.2
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Syriopoulos [1995], 1135
2.    Cem.   Georgiadis [2003], 39    ' ... there was no adequate information to locate the cemeteries at Lachania ... and Asklepeio (B38) ... '
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 355    'Two three-handled jars in the Copenhagen Museum are listed as from Asklipio.'
4.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 198    'Two vases in the Copenhagen Museum said to be from Asklipio ...'
5.    Pottery.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 150    'Two Three-handled Amphoras in the Copenhagen Museum are listed as from Askllipio.'
6.    Pottery.   Dietz [1984], 106    ' ... a three-handled biconical jar of the type CVA DK, Pl . 42:5 said to be from Asklipio.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1135,

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'LH IIIA2/B1'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 150, 'They are dated by Furumark as L.H. IIIA 2/B.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 151, 'Asklepeio ... III A2I, C'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 355, 'They are said to be of the transitional period between LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1135,
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 150, 'They are dated by Furumark as L.H. IIIA 2/B.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 151, 'Asklepeio ... III A2I, C'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 355, 'They are said to be of the transitional period between LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB.'

4. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'LH IIIA2/B1'

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 151, 'Asklepeio ... III A2I, C'

NOTE

1. Finds noted in Georgiadis [2003] are piriform jar (p. 195) and a triton shell (p. 232).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dietz [1984]: Dietz, Søren. Lindos IV, 1; Excavations and Surveys in Southern Rhodes: The Mycenaean Period. The National Museum of Denmark, Archaeological Historical Series (22:1). 1984, '', pg. 106. Online here.

2. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 39. Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Asklipio', pg. 198. Online here.

4. 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., 'Asklipio', pg. 150. Online here.

5. 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., 'Asklipio', pg. 355. Online here.

6. Syriopoulos [1995]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Γενικος Συνοπτικος Καταλογος Των Περιεχομενων και των Δυο Τομων: Δευτερος Τομος. Athens: Athens Archaeological Society. 1995., '', pg. 1135.