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Termitito

PKC6338
TITLETermitito
WGS84 40.30112° N, 16.686118° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 40.30112, 16.686118
LON/LAT 16.686118, 40.30112

DMS 40° 18' 4.032" N,16° 41' 10.0248" E

W3Wmills, received, tolerated
UTM33 T, 643368, 4462566
EGSA87 -121915, 4486655

Elevation m76
Elevation feet 249.3
RegionItaly
SubregionBasilicata





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   De Siena [1984], 42    ' ..., ed una eguale quantita di ceramiche micenee.'
2.    Pottery.   Bettelli [2002], 29    ' ... presenza di ceramica micenea, ... '
3.    Sherds.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 249    'Two trenches of limited extent at Termitito ... yielded more than forty Mycenaean sherds.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    De Siena [1984]: 42, ' ..., ed una eguale quantita di ceramiche micenee.'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Bettelli [2002]: 29, ' ..., con qualche attestazione del TE IIIA.'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 539, 'EARLIEST: LHIIIA2 - LHIIIB'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 250, ' ..., most Mycenaean finds at Termitito and Nuraghe Antigori are in LH IIIB and LH IIIC style, ... '

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 250, ' ..., most Mycenaean finds at Termitito and Nuraghe Antigori are in LH IIIB and LH IIIC style, ... '
    b.    Bettelli [2002]: 29, ' ..., databile prevalentemente al TE IIIC, ... '

NOTE

1.  Van Wijngaarden [2002] 249, fn. 90 says "The LH IIIA phase appears to be absent at Termitito". On p. 539, however, he gives LHIIIA2 as present on the site.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Bettelli [2002]:  Bettelli, Marco. Italia meridionale e mondo miceneo. Ricerche su dinamiche di acculturazione e aspetti archeologici, con particolare riferimento ai versanti adriatico e ionico della penisola italiana. No. 5 in Grandi Contesti e Problemi della Protostoria italiana. All'Insegna del Giglio, Firenze, Italia. 2002., '60. Termitito, Montalbano Ionico (Matera)', pg. 29. Online here.

2.  De Siena [1984]:  De Siena, A.. ‘Termitito’, Marazzi et al. (eds.) [1984] 41 - 54, '', pg. 42. Online here.

3.  van Wijngaarden [1999]:  van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''302 Termitito'', pg. 539. Online here.

4.  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., 'Mycenaean Repertoire', pg. 249. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6338 is at 40.27131° N, 16.76674° E, a straight-line distance of 7 km and 608 m.