Site details

Ayios Sozomenos

PK	C1815
TITLE	Ayios Sozomenos
WGS84	35.066238° N, 33.438384° E
Accuracy	200 m.

LAT/LON	35.066238, 33.438384
LON/LAT	33.438384, 35.066238

DMS

35° 3' 58.4568" N

33° 26' 18.1824" E

W3W	forwarded, specifying, thriving
UTM	36 S, 539971.13, 3880476.5
EGSA87	1361753, 3921102

Elevation m	183
Elevation feet	600.4
Region	Cyprus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 324    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Ayios Sozomenos

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, ' ... IIIA2 ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, ' ... IIIB ... '

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, ' ... IIIC ... '

NOTES

1. Ayios Sozomenos is a complex and extensive site on the northern bank of the Alykos river in central Cyprus. It consists of at least the following sites:

F3047 Ayios Sozomenos-Glyka Vrysis
F3048 Ayios Sozomenos-Nikolikhes
F3049 Ayios Sozomenos-Kakoskalin/Galatere
F3050 Dhali-Kafkalla
F3051 Ayios Sozomenos-Ambellia
F3052 Ayios Sozomenos-Kamina
F3053 Ayios Sozomenos-Kafkalla tis Drakontias

I do not know which of these sites van Wijngaarden intends us to understand by 'Ayios Sozomenos'. En default de meilleur I have used the coordinates of the modern town of Ayios Sozomenos which is F2880. It is more or less equidistant from the others.

For a good map of this area see fig. 2, p. 123 in Michael Brown's: 'Waterways And The Political Geography Of South-East Cyprus In The Second Millennium BC', The Annual of the British School at Athens (108), 121-136, [2013]. Online here.

2. See the note for C1815.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Brown [2013]: Brown, Michael. ‘Waterways and the Political Geography of South-East Cyprus in the Second Millenium BC’, Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 108, 121-136. 2013., '', pg. 123. Online here.

2. 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. 324. Online here.