Site details

Aristodhimion: Glikorizi

PK	C468
TITLE	Aristodhimion: Glikorizi
WGS84	37.134232° N, 21.982227° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.134232, 21.982227
LON/LAT	21.982227, 37.134232

DMS

37° 8' 3.2352" N

21° 58' 56.0172" E

W3W	enjoyed, skewers, sweeteners
UTM	34 S, 587509, 4110310
EGSA87	320893, 4111467

Elevation m	24
Elevation feet	78.7
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 284    'HAB. CEM? Probable cemetery in vicinity of modern cemetery ca. 100 m NE of village.' or F402 at approximately 37.133596, 21.978249
2.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 160    ' ..., is a low mound ... on the N side of the road to Plati.'
3.    Sherds.   Messenia II, 235    'The pottery picked out of the house walls includes bowl rims, shallow saucers of pink-blue wash ware ... and sauceboat fragments ... '

SITE SIZE

- McDonald and Rapp [1972]  p. ,  Size: 8400 sq. m.  HAB. CEM? Probable cemetery in vicinity of modern cemetery ca. 100 m NE of village.' or F402 at approximately 37.133596, 21.978249

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 160,  Size: 8400 sq. m.  ' ... a low mound, (c. 120 m. E-W by 70 m.) on the N side of the road ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 284, 'EH ... '
    b.    Messenia II: 235, 'It is almost uniformly EH ..., '

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 160, ' ..., and the bricks were full of fine EH II potsherds.'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Messenia II: 2235, ' ..., although we collected a few wheel-turned bits, apparently Mycenaean.'

NOTES

1. Placed notionally based on McDonald and Simpson's directions in Messenia II, 235 ' ... ca. 150 m. NE of the LH site (i.e. further from the village) and on the opposite (N) side of the Platy road.' The LH site referred to is C133.

2. 'Associated to UMME 123 (C133) or Simpson 2014 # 77A'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. McDonald and Rapp [1972]: McDonald, William A. and George R. Rapp, Jr.. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 1972, '124 (77A2) Aristodhimion: Glikorizi', pg. 284.

2. Messenia II: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Exploration in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1962-1963’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 68, No. 3 (Jul., 1964), pp. 229-245., '77A. Aristodhemion Glykorizi', pg. 235. Online here.

3. 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., 'D 124 Aristodhemion: Glykorizi', pg. 160. Online here.