Site details

Delphi Museum

PK	C3950
TITLE	Delphi Museum
WGS84	38.480741° N, 22.499631° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	38.480741, 22.499631
LON/LAT	22.499631, 38.480741

DMS

38° 28' 50.6676" N

22° 29' 58.6716" E

W3W	saturation, pickaxes, foams
UTM	34 S, 630803, 4260222
EGSA87	368983, 4259935

Elevation m	557
Elevation feet	1827.4
Region	Phocis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 257    ' ..., to W of which (C1604, rhc) is a cemetery; ... '
2.    Tomb.   Lerat [1937], 44    '...rencontrèrent un groupe de tombes creusées dans le schiste argileux au bas de la pente assez raide qui s'élève de la route moderne jusqu'aux pieds des Phaidriades.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Lerat [1937]: 44, '...un pied de coupe mycénienne, ...'

2. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 257, ' ...; the contents of the tombs, rock-cut, roughly circular chamber tombs generally lacking a dromos, belong mainly to LH IIIC, ... '

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 257, ' ..., but one of a group behind the Museum held two burials of early PG and LG date.'

4. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Lerat [1937]: 45, '... a des caractéristiques nettement submycéniennes.'

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Lerat [1937]: 44, 'on n'y a ramassé que quelques tessons, surtout géométriques, ...'

6. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 257, ' ..., but one of a group behind the Museum held two burials of early PG and LG date.'

NOTE

1. Site contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Lerat [1937]: Lerat, Lucien. ‘Tombes submycéniennes et géométriques à Delphes’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (61:1), pp. 44-52. 1937., '', pg. 44. Online here.

2. 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., 'G 55 Delphi', pg. 256. Online here.