Site details

Floridia: Via Archimede

PK	C6319
TITLE	Floridia: Via Archimede
WGS84	37.088052° N, 15.153858° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	37.088052, 15.153858
LON/LAT	15.153858, 37.088052

DMS

37° 5' 16.9872" N

15° 9' 13.8888" E

W3W	flashing, meaning, tarred
UTM	33 S, 513674, 4104651
EGSA87	-287191, 4141157

Elevation m	116
Elevation feet	380.6
Region	Sicily

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Orsi [1909], 374
2.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 236    'At Floridia (site no. 328), two tombs have been discovered close to one another, one of which yielded a LH IIIA2-LHIIIB straight-sided alabastron.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Orsi [1909]: 374, ? '...; vaso del III periodo della ceramica micenea, secondo la vecchia classificazione di Furtwaengler e Loeschcke (Mykenische Vasen, pag. viii).'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 236, ' ... a LH IIIA2-LHIIIB straight-sided alabastron.'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 236, ' ... a LH IIIA2-LHIIIB straight-sided alabastron.'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 236, ' ... a LH IIIA2-LHIIIB straight-sided alabastron.'

NOTES

1. In placing this find I have taken Orsi at his word. He says (374) ' ... the northern exit of the Via Archimede, in the contrada of Tabacchedu, ... ', ' ... all'uscita settentrionale di via Archimede, in contrada Tabaccheddu ... ' The city must have grown considerably in the preceding hundred years and so I have marked the accuracy parameter 'unknown'.

2. The alabastron is illustrated in Leighton [1999] 171, Fig. 90, no. 11.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Leighton [1999]: Leighton, Robert. Sicily before History; An Archaeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1999., '', Online here.

2. Orsi [1909]: Orsi, P.. ‘II. Floridia. Sepulcreto siculo con vaso miceneo’, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Notizie degli scavi di antichità. pp. 374-378. Ulrico Höpli, Milano. 1909., 'II. Floridia. Sepulcreto siculo con vaso miceneo', pg. 374. Online here.

3. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., '', pg. 236. Online here.