Site details

Phychtia: Ayios Yeoryios

PK	C830
TITLE	Phychtia: Ayios Yeoryios
WGS84	37.751359° N, 22.686659° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.751359, 22.686659
LON/LAT	22.686659, 37.751359

DMS

37° 45' 4.8924" N

22° 41' 11.9724" E

W3W	gape, outsell, configured
UTM	34 S, 648588.16, 4179567.58
EGSA87	384152, 4178753

Elevation m	336
Elevation feet	1102.4
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   AD[1966], 125
2.    Pottery.   Bintliff [1977], 293    'Here Mycenaean pottery is reported. In 1966 ... various parts of the eminence yielded prehistoric finds, ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 37    'Surface sherds, including some attributed to LH IIIB, ...'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 18    'Surface sherds, including some attributed to the LH IIIB period, were said to have been found near the chapel of Ayios Yeoryios, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 18, 'LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 37, 'Surface sherds, including some attributed to LH IIIB, ...'
    c.    AD[1966]: 125,

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 18, 'LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 37, 'Surface sherds, including some attributed to LH IIIB, ...'
    c.    AD[1966]: 125,
    d.    Bintliff [1977]: 293, ' ..., including an LH3B vase.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AD[1966]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 21, '', pg. 125.

2. Bintliff [1977]: Bintliff, John L.. Natural Environment and Human Settlement in Prehistoric Greece; based on original fieldwork, Part i. BAR Supplementary Series 28(i). British Archaeological Reports. 122, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7BP, England., 'About one-and-a-half hours from the Boliari area ... ', pg. 293. Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 3 Phychtia: Ayios Yeoryios', pg. 18. Simpson did not know exactly where it was located.
Online here.

4. 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., 'A 2A Phychtia: Ayios Yeoryios', pg. 37. Online here.