Site details

Kalogeropoulos Mound

PK	C324
TITLE	Kalogeropoulos Mound
WGS84	37.032649° N, 21.739983° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.032649, 21.739983
LON/LAT	21.739983, 37.032649

DMS

37° 1' 57.5364" N

21° 44' 23.9388" E

W3W	factories, bulldozers, goofing
UTM	34 S, 565813.12, 4098750.21
EGSA87	298834, 4100594

Elevation m	349
Elevation feet	1145
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Boyd [2001], 154    'Korrés carried out a small supplementary excavation on the Kaloyeropoúlou mound in 1989.'
2.    Tumulus.   Zavadil [2012], 530    'Der Tumulus liegt etwa 400 m (Luftlinie) nordöstlich der Tholosgräber ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 531, 'Einige Scherben aus der Aufschüttung des Tumulus konnten in FH II datiert werden. Aufgrund dieser Keramik nahm Korres an, daß der Tumulus entweder bei oder über einer FH II-Siedlung errichtet worden war.'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 531, 'Korres sprach sich - aufgrund seiner Nachgrabungen - für eine Datierung in eine frühe Phase des Mittel helladikums aus.'
    b.    Boyd [2001]: 154, ' ...: the mounds are middle Helladic constructions but no further precision is possible.'

3. Middle Helladic II: (1900 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 154, 'Without any detail or context Howell (1992, 76) affirms that MHII pottery is present in the tumuli of Roútsi: presumably it is to the three pots placed at the "entrance" to the horseshoe-shaped pit that he refers.'

4. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 531, 'Marinatos vermutete, daß die Anlage in spätmykenischer Zeit in Verwendung war'

NOTES

1. Boyd [2001] 154 refers to Howell. This is R. Howell, 'The Middle Helladic Settlement: Pottery', in McDonald and Wilkie [1992] 43-204.

What Howell says (p. 76) is ' ..., there is MH II pottery from the tiny island of Nisakouli ... which is near Methoni and from the tumuli at Ayios Ioannis: Papoulia & Routsi: Myrsinochori. The pottery from these sites shows great similarity with that from MHII Nichoria.'

2. Placed partly in agreement with the photograph in Boyd [2001] 156, Fig. A1.27.1 which clearly depicts the shelter.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, 'Kaloyeropoúlou mound', pg. 155. Online here.

2. McDonald and Wilkie [1992]: McDonald, William A. and Nancy C. Wilkie (eds.) . Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece; Volume II: The Bronze Age Occupation. University of Minnesota Press, 1992, '',

3. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'Tumulus II (Kalogeropoulos)', pg. 530. Online here.