Site details

Poieessa: Plaka

PK	C7102
TITLE	Poieessa: Plaka
WGS84	37.595993° N, 24.275756° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	37.595993, 24.275756
LON/LAT	24.275756, 37.595993

DMS

37° 35' 45.5748" N

24° 16' 32.7216" E

W3W	wilt, pyramids, overstating
UTM	35 S, 259489.09, 4164481.01
EGSA87	524194, 4160739

Elevation m	119
Elevation feet	390.4
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Kea

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 306    'Two stone vases were found, presumably grave-goods, in the SW of the island near classical Poieëssa.'
2.    Artifacts.   Caskey [1972], 362    'A bowl and a jar of white marble, both of familiar type ... These were found by chance in the course of roadbuilding at a place called Plaka, near the site of classical Poieessa on the western side of the island, ... '
3.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 306    ' ... stone vases ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 306, 'GP'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Caskey [1972]: 362, ' ... Early Bronze Age: E.H.II/E.C.II ... ', ' ...; they may indeed belong chiefly to an earlier phase.'

3. Early Cycladic II: (2700 BC - 2450 BC)
    a.    Caskey [1972]: 362, ' ... Early Bronze Age: E.H.II/E.C.II ... ', ' ...; they may indeed belong chiefly to an earlier phase.'

NOTES

1. The site of 'Plaka' (the origin site of the two stone jars) is said to be 'near Poieëssa'. I have placed the marker on the ancient acropolis of Poieëssa because Plaka's location is not known to me. Conceivably it is the same as the modern hamlet of 'Plagia' which is at 37.607535° 24.296413°, about 2230 m. distant.

2. These two vessels can be seen in the top row of photographs of Plate 77 in Caskey [1972].

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Caskey [1972]: Caskey, John L.. ‘Investigations in Keos. Part II: A Conspectus of the Pottery’, Hesperia, vol. 41, issue 3, pp. 357-401, 1972, ''B. Early Bronze Age: E.H.II/E.C.II ... '', pg. 362. Online here.

2. 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., 'Plaka', pg. 306. Online here.