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Prophitis Elias: Hab

PKC1926
TITLEProphitis Elias: Hab
WGS84 38.3324° N, 23.627994° E
Accuracy 200 m.

LAT/LON 38.3324, 23.627994
LON/LAT 23.627994, 38.3324

DMS 38° 19' 56.64" N,23° 37' 40.7784" E

W3Wrecede, bonded, buzzwords
UTM34 S, 729704, 4245965
EGSA87 467338, 4242475

Elevation m115
Elevation feet 377.3
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Fossey [1988], 57    '...remains of a single-room, oblong Mycenaean house...'
2.    hab.   Farinetti [2011 AI14], 11    
3.    House.   Ålin [1962], 120    'A. Brown grub 1905 etwas nordwestlich der Aj. Paraskevi-Kapelle die Grundmauern eines mykenisches Hauses aus.'
4.    House.   Brown [1906], 94    ' ... some worked blocks of stone which turned out to be the foundations of a small Mycenaean house of the usual mainland Mycenaean (Ialysos, Tell el Amarna) period.'
5.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 221    'Sherd material ... ', ' ... remains of a house-foundation of worked blocks, ... ', ' ... two cists ... '
6.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 52    'Surface sherds of most periods of the Bronze Age have been found on the hill, where remains (which included worked blocks) of the foundations of a house were excavated, apparently associated with LH IIIA2-B pottery.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 11, 'Component TA_51'

2. EH I: (3100 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'

3. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'

4. EH III: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'

5. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'
    c.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 11, 'Component TA_52'

6. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 11, 'Component TA_53'

7. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 120, 'Die vielen Scherben auf dem Boden waren anscheinend aus SH III.'

8. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'

9. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 221, ' ... apparently associated with LH IIIA2-B pottery, ... '
    c.    Brown [1906]: 95, ' ..., Tell el Amarna) period.'

10. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 58, 'EH I-III, MH ..., LH III A-B'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 52, 'EH I-III MH LH IIIA2-B'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 221, ' ... apparently associated with LH IIIA2-B pottery, ... '

NOTE

1.  Our authors give different directions. For a resolution see this blog post from May 12, 2017.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ålin [1962]:  Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Ajios Elias', pg. 120.

2.  Brown [1906]:  Brown, A.C.B.. ‘Excavations at Schimatari and Dilisi in Boeotia’, Annual of the British School at Athens (12) 93-100. 1905/1906., '(2) The Hill of H. Elias', pg. 94. Online here.

3.  Farinetti [2011 AI14]:  Farinetti, Emeri. Boeotian Landscapes; A GIS-based study ... Appendix I.14; The Tanagra plain and Eastern Boeotia. British Archaeological Reports, no. 2195. 2011., '32/33. Prophitis Ilias: Components TA_50 to TA_54 (32) and TA_55 (33)', pg. 11.

4.  Fossey [1988]:  Fossey, John M.. Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares publishers Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 1988., '5. Prophitis Elias', pg. 57.

5.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'B 47 Schimatari: Ayios Ilias', pg. 52. Online here.

6.  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., 'F 59 Schimatari: Ayios Ilias', pg. 221. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1926 is at 38.35174° N, 23.65638° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 283 m.