Site details

Koutsoubes/Koutsoumpes

PK	C5287
TITLE	Koutsoubes∕Koutsoumpes
WGS84	36.829454° N, 22.860613° E
Accuracy	1000 m.

LAT/LON	36.829454, 22.860613
LON/LAT	22.860613, 36.829454

DMS

36° 49' 46.0344" N

22° 51' 38.2068" E

W3W	exceptional, quarried, boxing
UTM	34 S, 665927, 4077569
EGSA87	398245, 4076271

Elevation m	163
Elevation feet	534.8
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Zavvou [2012], 16    '...an important settlement existed here throughout the Bronze Age.'

SITE SIZE

- Zavvou [2012]  p. 16,  Size: 16000 sq. m.  'The site covers approximately 16,000 m^2 on the cliffs rising next to the Potamia stream.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Zavvou [2012]: 16, 'Sherds of the EH and Mycenaean periods are plentiful ..., '

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Zavvou [2012]: 16, 'Sherds of the EH and Mycenaean periods are plentiful ..., '

NOTE

1. Additional bibliography: G. Stamatakos, Siti Preistorici e Protostorici nelle Laconia Sub-Oriental, Testi di Laurea in Preistoria e Protostoria Europea, Universita degli Studi di Bari. 1994-95. The marker was placed notionally. I have no information about the site location beyond the fact that it is located not too far to the NE of Molaoi and on the cliffs of the Potamia stream.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Zavvou [2012]: Zavvou, Eleni. ‘Early Helladic Laconia after the time of H. Waterhouse and R. Hope Simpson’, Pharos (18:1), 1-37, 2012., 'Koutsoubes', pg. 16. Online here.