Site details

Paliambela

PK	C7094
TITLE	Paliambela
WGS84	39.411818° N, 22.184341° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.411818, 22.184341
LON/LAT	22.184341, 39.411818

DMS

39° 24' 42.5448" N

22° 11' 3.6276" E

W3W	simplifying, geography, inks
UTM	34 S, 601958.45, 4363147.17
EGSA87	343539, 4363764

Elevation m	108
Elevation feet	354.3
Region	Thessaly

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 292    'A large LH settlement and cemetery is reported here, but no details are given.'
2.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 169    'A large Mycenaean settlement and cemetery are reported here, near a marsh and the railway line.'
3.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 292    'A large LH settlement and cemetery is reported here, but no details are given.'
4.    Settlement.   Decourt [1986], 366    ' ..., présente toutes les caractéristiques d'une cité, ... '
5.    Sherds.   Decourt [1986], 366    'Les tessons mycéniens ne sont pas absents, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Decourt [1986]: 366, 'Les tessons mycéniens ... '

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 292, 'LH (III?)'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 169, 'LH III(A-B)'

NOTE

1. For the identification of the ancient 'Phyllos' with Magoula Paliambela see the long discussion in Decourt [1986] 383-388. Simpson [1981] and Simpson and Dickinson [1979] both place 'Phyllos' at the source of the Gioli stream (F6142). Decourt explains how that error arose.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Decourt [1986]: Decourt, Jean-Claude. ‘Une " nouvelle " cité dans la vallée de l'Enipeus : Paliambéla - Phyllos’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 110, livraison 1, 1986. pp. 357-391;, '', pg. 366. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 46 Phyllos: Gioli (Ancient Phylle?)', pg. 169. Online here.

3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'H 58 Phyllos: Gioli (Ancient Phyle?)', pg. 292. Online here.