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Mouriki: Schoinos

PKC5944
TITLEMouriki: Schoinos
WGS84 38.427387° N, 23.361864° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.427387, 23.361864
LON/LAT 23.361864, 38.427387

DMS 38° 25' 38.5932" N,23° 21' 42.7104" E

W3Wrambler, quickly, calibration
UTM34 S, 706170, 4255878
EGSA87 444151, 4253142

Elevation m228
Elevation feet 748
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson [2018], 163    'Fossey presents a good argument for identifying Schoinos as the site of Ayios Ilias, a small acropolis ...'
2.    Sherds.   Fossey [1988], 230    '..., many sherds lie on the surface; mostly they are painted tile fragments and sherds of black glazed pottery.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Cycladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 230, '...(including MC and LC I), ...'

2. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 230, '...(including MC and LC I), ...'

3. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 230, 'Pottery and other finds; Archaic ...'
    b.    Simpson [2018]: 163, '...nothing earlier than Archaic has yet been found here.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Fossey [1988]:  Fossey, John M.. Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares publishers Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 1988., '10. Mouriki - SKHOINOS', pg. 229.

2.  Simpson [2018]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'Schoinos (Il. 2.497)', pg. 162. Reference is to Iliad 2.497
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5944 is at 38.49752° N, 23.34128° E, a straight-line distance of 8 km and 11 m.