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Myrtou-Pighades

PK	C1781
TITLE	Myrtou–Pighades
WGS84	35.29031° N, 33.087632° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.29031, 33.087632
LON/LAT	33.087632, 35.29031

DMS

35° 17' 25.116" N

33° 5' 15.4752" E

W3W	dose, subpart, renovates
UTM	36 S, 507968, 3905242
EGSA87	1327330, 3943047

Elevation m	213
Elevation feet	698.8
Region	Cyprus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 325    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Myrtou Pighades

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 223, ' ... IIIA2 ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 223, ' ... IIIB ... '

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 223, ' ... IIIC ... '

NOTE

1. The investigation was led by Joan du Plat Taylor who published the results in Myrtou-Pigadhes. A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus, Oxford, 1957. Reviewed by James R. Stewart in American Journal of Archaeology, (64:3) 290-292, 1960 which is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean Pottery', pg. 223. Online here.