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Apollona: Kariones

PKC5250
TITLEApollona: Kariones
WGS84 36.258857° N, 27.931947° E
Accuracy 200 m.

LAT/LON 36.258857, 27.931947
LON/LAT 27.931947, 36.258857

DMS 36° 15' 31.8852" N,27° 55' 55.0092" E

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UTM35 S, 583720, 4013063
EGSA87 853152, 4019548

Elevation m541
Elevation feet 1774.9
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Georgiadis [2003], 37    'The Kariones cemetery ... consisted of two tombs ...'
2.    Pottery.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 144    'A group of L.H. IIIB vases was briefly reported by Jacopi, ...'
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 351    'It is probable that a group of LH IIIB vases from a site described as "Cariones" ... came from the vicinity of "Scariones" c. 1 km to NE of Lelos ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '...two tombs in use during LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB, ...'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 144, 'A group of L.H. IIIB vases ...'
    b.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '...two tombs in use during LH IIIA2 and LH IIIB, ...'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 352, ' ... a group of LH IIIB vases ... '

NOTES

1.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada

2.  For a discussion of the name 'Kariones' and suggested alternate locations see the discussion in Simpson and Lazenby [1973] 144 under 'Apollona: Kariones'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Georgiadis [2003]:  Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 37. Online here.

2.  Simpson and Lazenby [1973]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Apollona: Kariones', pg. 144. A good discussion here of all the naming and location issues.
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., 'Apollona: Lelos', pg. 351. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5250 is at 36.2955° N, 27.85922° E, a straight-line distance of 7 km and 696 m.