Site details

Neochori Mound or Toumba of Alabor

PK	C1685
TITLE	Neochori Mound or Toumba of Alabor
WGS84	40.542351° N, 22.508381° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	40.542351, 22.508381
LON/LAT	22.508381, 40.542351

DMS

40° 32' 32.4636" N

22° 30' 30.1716" E

W3W	irritably, unregulated, jurors
UTM	34 T, 627732.85, 4489048.74
EGSA87	373537, 4488739

Elevation m	92
Elevation feet	301.8
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Mound.   French [1967], 25    'Topography: mound, on a plateau, on edge of hill country, ... '
2.    Mound.   Rey [1921], 54    'Le site appartient au type « toumba sur table », ... '
3.    Sherds.   French [1967], 63    '?Myc - 7-8'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 184    'A few LB sherds and one or two possibly Mycenaean are recorded here by French.'
5.    Sherds.   Rey [1921], 55    'On trouve sur l'une et sur l'autre de nombreux tessons.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    French [1967]: 63, '?Myc - 7-8'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'LB LH III?'
    b.    French [1967]: 63, 'LB - Brown b: 1-6'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'LB LH III?'

4. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)
    a.    French [1967]: 63, 'IA & later: 11-35 (including PG)'

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    French [1967]: 63, 'IA & later: 11-35 (including PG)'

NOTES

1. The chosen position is based on carefully following the directions in Rey [1921] 54 along with the map on that page. All his indices intersect at the point chosen. The positions given in French [1967] 25 and in Rey are so different that one must keep in mind the possibility that they are referring to two different sites.

2. The Mycenaean Atlas Project would like to thank Dr. Stratos Nanoglou of the University of Thessalonika for making available a copy of French [1967] which would have been otherwise difficult to obtain.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. French [1967]: French, D.H.. Index of Prehistoric Sites in Central Macedonia and Catalogue of Sherd Material in The University of Thessaloniki. Athens, 'Neokhori P 2', pg. 25.

2. Rey [1921]: Rey, Léon. Observations sur les premiers habitats de la Macédoine; Recueillies par le Service Archéologique de l'Armée d'Orient; 1916-1919 (Région de Salonique). E. De Boccard, Paris, 'Alabor (Toumba sur table, Fig. 41, 83).', pg. 54. Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Neochori', pg. 184. DH French, CM No. P 2
Online here.