Site details

Thebes: Kadmeia 2

PK	C1977
TITLE	Thebes: Kadmeia 2
WGS84	38.320491° N, 23.317772° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.320491, 23.317772
LON/LAT	23.317772, 38.320491

DMS

38° 19' 13.7676" N

23° 19' 3.9792" E

W3W	blankets, things, slipped
UTM	34 S, 702618, 4243917
EGSA87	440214, 4241308

Elevation m	210
Elevation feet	689
Region	Boeotia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Palace

TYPE

1.    hab.   Touloupa [1964], 27
2.    Palace.   Symeonoglou [1985], 227    'The treasury and storage rooms were clearly in the basement of a palace that is strikingly different in size, orientation, and manner of construction from the palace of site 1.' For site 1 see 'C1976'.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Touloupa [1964]: 27,

2. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 49, '...and that the second palace was built at the beginning of LH III A:2, after the first palace had been destroyed.', See the full discussion of the dating of this palace on p. 49.

3. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 227, 'The building was destroyed by fire at the end of Late Helladic III B:1 period; ...'

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Touloupa [1964]: 27,

NOTE

1. See Phialon [2011] 37-38 for a discussion of the relevant dating issues.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Phialon [2011]: Phialon, Laetitia. L'Émergence de la Civilisation Mycénienne en Grèce Centrale. Peeters, Leuven - Liege. Belgium. 2011., 'I.2.2.3. Thebes ... Béotie', pg. 36.

2. Symeonoglou [1985]: Symeonoglou, Sarantis. The Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 1985., 'Site 2. Kadmeia I-11', pg. 225. 'I-11' refers to the map coordinates in Symeonoglu, Map B, The Kadmeia which is after p. 334.

3. Touloupa [1964]: Touloupa, Evi. ‘Bericht Über Die Neuen Ausgrabungen In Theben’, Kadmos (3), pp. 25-27. 1964., '', pg. 27. Online here.