Site details
Shrine Gamma or Tsountas’ House Shrine
| PK | C6624 |
| TITLE | Shrine Gamma or Tsountas’ House Shrine |
| WGS84 | 37.729924° N, 22.757007° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 37.729924, 22.757007 |
| LON/LAT | 22.757007, 37.729924 |
| DMS | 37° 43' 47.7264" N | , | 22° 45' 25.2252" E |
| W3W | transcriber, thwarts, daylight |
| UTM | 34 S, 654831, 4177303 |
| EGSA87 | 390318, 4176290 |
| Elevation m | 243 |
| Elevation feet | 797.2 |
| Region | Argolid |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Cult
TYPE
1. . Wardle [2015], ' '2. Cult. Iakovidis et al. [2003], 16 'The higher of two buildings lying on a terraced slope ... had a cult function.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
a. Wardle [2015]: 582, ' ... the Tsountas’ House Shrine for which a construction date by the end of LH IIIA1 is suggested by pottery and by the scarab of Tiy found during Tsountas’ excavation.'
2. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
a. Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 16, 'The buildings were built at various times from the end of the 14th century BC to the middle of the 13th.'
b. Wardle [2015]: 586, 'Late Helladic IIIB1 Mid: Well Built Mycenae Phase VII','Tsountas’ House shows some signs of minor alterations, but none which might have affected its function.'
3. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Wardle [2015]: 593, 'Work of this quality indicates, ..., that the area of the Tsountas’ House Shrine remained, or perhaps had now once again become, the focal point of cult activity ... '
NOTE
1. See Wardle [2015] figures 5,6 and 7 for detailed drawings of the Cult Center in LH IIIB. Shrine gamma is marked with the Greek letter gamma.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Iakovidis et al. [2003]: Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'Shrine Gamma', pg. 16.
2. Wardle [2015]: Wardle, K.A.. ‘Reshaping the past: Where was the "Cult Centre" at Mycenae?’, Schallin and Tournavitou [2015] 577-596. 2015., '', pg. 581.
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