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Modern Tanagra: Frankish Tower

PKC815
TITLEModern Tanagra: Frankish Tower
WGS84 38.337257° N, 23.529766° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.337257, 23.529766
LON/LAT 23.529766, 38.337257

DMS 38° 20' 14.1252" N,23° 31' 47.1576" E

W3Wdeceits, cleanest, swam
UTM34 S, 721102, 4246264
EGSA87 458755, 4243053

Elevation m197
Elevation feet 646.3
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Farinetti [2011 AI14], 13    'By the tower potsherds were noticed by J.L. Bintliff and A.M. Snodgrass during their visit (pers.comm.). '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 12, Component TA_58

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI14]: 13, Component TA_61, 'Components TA_61 to TA_64 (LH burial places): In the area of the modern Tanagra village have been found several focuses of LH tombs with LH III painted larnakes (most of them now in the Thebes museum) - some of them at the E foot of the Kastron hill (component TA_62).'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., '36 - 42. Bratsi/Modern Tanagra: Components TA_56 (36); TA_57, TA_68 to TA_70 (37), TA_62 (38) ; TA_65 to TA_67 (39); TA_64 (40); TA_63 (41); TA_58 to TA_61 (42)', pg. 12. Specifically TA_58

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C815 is at 38.37746° N, 23.63111° E, a straight-line distance of 9 km and 914 m.