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Rhitsona: Mykalessos

PK	C810
TITLE	Rhitsona: Mykalessos
WGS84	38.407741° N, 23.519448° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.407741, 23.519448
LON/LAT	23.519448, 38.407741

DMS

38° 24' 27.8676" N

23° 31' 10.0128" E

W3W	boyish, forging, spatula
UTM	34 S, 719986.78, 4254062.21
EGSA87	457894, 4250878

Elevation m	176
Elevation feet	577.4
Region	Boeotia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Cem.   BSA [1907], 226
2.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 73    'The Mycenaean settlement appears to have been confined to the knoll, ... '
3.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 253    'The site is now known to have been occupied in LH ... '
4.    Settlement.   Fossey [1988], 81    '...the site of an ancient settlement; ...'
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 73    ' ... Mycenaean surface sherds have been discovered by J.M. Fossey.'
6.    Sherds.   Farinetti [2011 AI14], 21    'Prehistoric material ...'
7.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 253    ' ... (surface sherds discovered by J. M. Fossey).'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 253,  Size: 9600 sq. m.  'The site is a low knoll c. 120 m. N-S by 80 m., ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 19, TA_107
    b.    Fossey [1988]: 82, 'EH (including EH II), MH (Black Minyan), LH (including LH III), Archaic ...'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 80, 'EH (including EH II), MH (Black Minyan), LH (including LH III), Archaic ...'

3. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 19, TA_108
    b.    Fossey [1988]: 80, 'EH (including EH II), MH (Black Minyan), LH (including LH III), Archaic ...'

4. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 19, TA_109
    b.    Fossey [1988]: 80, 'EH (including EH II), MH (Black Minyan), LH (including LH III), Archaic ...'
    c.    Simpson [1981]: 73, 'LH G A ... '
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 253, 'LH G A C H', 'The LH site would presumably have been confined to the knoll, ... '

5. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 80, 'EH (including EH II), MH (Black Minyan), LH (including LH III), Archaic ...'
    b.    BSA [1907]: 226,

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    BSA [1907]: 226,
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 73, 'LH G A ... '

7. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 73, 'LH G A ... '

NOTES

1. See the helpful bibliography in Fossey [1988], p. 81.

2. Placed by following the directions in Simpson and Dickinson [1979] 253, 'G 45 ... ' that require this rise to be 'about 400 m. SW of Rhitsona and 300 m. W of the Thebes-Chalkis road.' Rhitsona is at F921.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BSA [1907]: Annual of the British School at Athens, Athens, Greece. (13) 1907, '', pg. 226. Online here.

2. Farinetti [2011 AI14]: Farinetti, Emeri. Boeotian Landscapes; A GIS-based study ... Appendix I.14; The Tanagra plain and Eastern Boeotia. British Archaeological Reports, no. 2195. 2011., '55. Ritsona: Components TA_107 to TA_114 and TA_213', pg. 19. Specifically components TA_107,TA_108,TA_109

3. Fossey [1988]: Fossey, John M.. Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares publishers Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 1988., '16. Rhitsona - Mykalessos', pg. 80.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'C 34 Rhitsona: Ancient Mykalessos', pg. 73. Online here.

5. 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., 'C 45 Rhitsona: Ancient Mykalessos', pg. 253. Online here.