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Rizes (Kyparissia)

PKC6564
TITLERizes (Kyparissia)
WGS84 37.271953° N, 21.69728° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 37.271953, 21.69728
LON/LAT 21.69728, 37.271953

DMS 37° 16' 19.0308" N,21° 41' 50.208" E

W3Wfears, roadmap, strengthened
UTM34 S, 561820, 4125270
EGSA87 295681, 4127239

Elevation m53
Elevation feet 173.9
RegionMessenia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Messenia III, 139    ' ... an important group of seven small vases found in a pithos in an open field on a small hill about half-way (6 km.) along the side road from Peristeria to Kyparissia.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Messenia III: 139, 'Marinatos dates them to "PG or rather SM" ... '

2. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Messenia III: 139, 'Marinatos dates them to "PG or rather SM" ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Messenia III:  McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1964-1968’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 123-177., '23G. Rizes (Kyparissia)', pg. 139. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6564 is at 37.27464° N, 21.6803° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 534 m.