Site details

Cape Iria Shipwreck

PK	C6738
TITLE	Cape Iria Shipwreck
WGS84	37.45727° N, 23.00468° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.45727, 23.00468
LON/LAT	23.00468, 37.45727

DMS

37° 27' 26.172" N

23° 0' 16.848" E

W3W	mulled, infuse, racing
UTM	34 S, 677304.24, 4147487.63
EGSA87	411823, 4145778

Elevation m	0
Elevation feet	0
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Shipwreck

TYPE

1.    Shipwreck.   Demand [2011], 177    'The third shipwreck, at Point Iria in Greece, at the south entrance of the Gulf of Argos ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Demand [2011]: 177, 'The cargo consisted of Cypriot and Mycenaean pottery, mostly transport vessels.'

2. Late Cycladic IIC: (1480 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Demand [2011]: 177, 'Three large pithoi were of Cypriot origin, dated LC IIC - LC IIIA; ... '

3. Late Cycladic IIIA: (1420 BC - 1350 BC)
    a.    Demand [2011]: 177, 'Three large pithoi were of Cypriot origin, dated LC IIC - LC IIIA; ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Demand [2011]: 177, 'Mycenaean transport vessels included a group of eight coarse-ware stirrup-jars that date the wreck to the later thirteenth century, "probably towards, if not exactly at, its end" ... '

NOTES

1. Other sources (unavailable to me) are:

Phelps, William and Yannos Lolos, Yannis Vichos, edd. 1999. The Point Iria Wreck: Interconnections in the Mediterranean ca. 1200 B.C. Pub. Athens: Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology.
Pennas, H. and Y. Vichos, Y. Lolos. 1991. The 1991 underwater survey of the Late Bronze Age wreck at Point Iria. Enalia Annual (3) 4-16.

2. coordinates from http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/popup.php?loc=2641

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Demand [2011]: Demand, Nancy H.. The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom, '', pg. 177.