Site details

Skhiza: Mavri Trypa Cave

PK	C6962
TITLE	Skhiza: Mavri Trypa Cave
WGS84	36.733662° N, 21.756758° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.733662, 21.756758
LON/LAT	21.756758, 36.733662

DMS

36° 44' 1.1832" N

21° 45' 24.3288" E

W3W	mauve, earned, billows
UTM	34 S, 567568.04, 4065594.18
EGSA87	299547, 4067385

Elevation m	68
Elevation feet	223.1
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cult

TYPE

1.    Cult.   Leekley and Noyes [1976], 131    ? 'It was probably a cult spot ... '
2.    Cult.   Messenia I, 254    'This was most likely an isolated cult spot rather than a habitation site.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Messenia I: 254, 'We did not succeed in exploring the cave of Schiza which Valmin describes in OpArch I [1953] 44-46, pl. II, 3. He believes that most of the pottery is clearly prehistoric, hand-made, and to judge from its decoration MH or perhaps Middle Minoan with local Kamares technique.'

2. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Noyes [1976]: 131, 'Some MH, or perhaps Middle Minoan, pottery was found.'
    b.    Messenia I: 254, ' ... or perhaps Middle Minoan with local Kamares technique.'

3. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Noyes [1976]: 131, 'Some MH, or perhaps Middle Minoan, pottery was found.'
    b.    Messenia I: 254, ' ..., and to judge from its decoration MH ... '

NOTES

1. For more see Natan Valmin, Études topographiques sur la Messénie ancienne. Lund. 1930, 159 ff.

2. About 400 m from the W coast

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Leekley and Noyes [1976]: Leekley, Dorothy and Robert Noyes. Archaeological Excavations in Southern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1976, 'Skhiza Island', pg. 131.

2. Messenia I: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '(g) Lower West Coast of Messenian Peninsula.', pg. 254. Online here.