Site details
Modern Tanagra: Frankish Tower
| PK | C815 |
| TITLE | Modern 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 |
| W3W | deceits, cleanest, swam |
| UTM | 34 S, 721102, 4246264 |
| EGSA87 | 458755, 4243053 |
| Elevation m | 197 |
| Elevation feet | 646.3 |
| Region | Boeotia |
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