Site details

Ayios Ioryios: MS124

PK	C5014
TITLE	Ayios Ioryios: MS124
WGS84	37.637316° N, 23.397879° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	37.637316, 23.397879
LON/LAT	23.397879, 37.637316

DMS

37° 38' 14.3376" N

23° 23' 52.3644" E

W3W	exiles, passageway, conventions
UTM	34 S, 711576, 4168280
EGSA87	446727, 4165458

Elevation m	9
Elevation feet	29.5
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   AR[1987], 23    'Activity during the EIA was confined to four main sites: ... and Ayios Yeoryios (MS124).'
2.    hab.   Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997], 162

SITE SIZE

- Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997]  p. 162,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  'Site Size. 15000 m^2'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997]: 162, 'EH: Nine sherds are red-slipped and burnished ...'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997]: 162, 'MH: Four Grey Minyan sherds ...'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997]: 162, 'Most of the Mycenaean sherds are unpainted and cannot be dated...'

4. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    AR[1987]: 23, 'Activity during the EIA was confined to four main sites: ... and Ayios Yeoryios (MS124).'

NOTE

1. This little plateau on the seashore is the right elevation and looks like it would have been a promontory in antiquity (Mee and Forbes [1997] 162). I am not certain and so I have marked it 'N'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AR[1987]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (34) 1987., 'Methana', pg. 22. Online here.

2. Mee and Forbes (eds.) [1997]: Mee, Christopher and Hamish Forbes. A Rough and Rocky Place: The Landscape and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula, Greece. Liverpool University Press, 1997., 'MS124', pg. 162.