Site details
Pellene (Palati)
| PK | C6915 |
| TITLE | Pellene (Palati) |
| WGS84 | 38.044871° N, 22.537571° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 38.044871, 22.537571 |
| LON/LAT | 22.537571, 38.044871 |
| DMS | 38° 2' 41.5356" N | , | 22° 32' 15.2556" E |
| W3W | house, accountable, nothing |
| UTM | 34 S, 634916.26, 4211909.36 |
| EGSA87 | 371528, 4211515 |
| Elevation m | 806 |
| Elevation feet | 2644.4 |
| Region | Achaea |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement
TYPE
1. Settlement. Simpson [2018], 279 'The location of the historical city of Pellene is firmly established, ... '2. Town. Iliad, ' ... and they that held Hyperesia and steep Gonoessa and Pellene, ... '
SITE SIZE
- Simpson [2018] p. 280, Size: 300000 sq. m. 'The city was spread over the slopes below, especially on the gentler slopes on the north and southeast, extending c. 600 m north to south by c. 500 m.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. Simpson [2018]: 280, 'Meyer (RE loc. cit.) conjectured that Pellene was also occupied in the Mycenaean period; ... '
2. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
a. Simpson [2018]: 279, 'A? C H R'
NOTE
1. Simpson [2018] 280 tells us: ' ... no Mycenaean sherds were found on the surface in 1960.'
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Iliad: Homer. Iliad. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924., '2.574', Online here.
2. Simpson [2018]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'Pellene (Il. 2. 574)', pg. 279.
Online here.