Site details

Loutraki Mountain

PK	C944
TITLE	Loutraki Mountain
WGS84	38.008791° N, 22.965326° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.008791, 22.965326
LON/LAT	22.965326, 38.008791

DMS

38° 0' 31.6476" N

22° 57' 55.1736" E

W3W	obeys, graphic, folded
UTM	34 S, 672538.03, 4208613
EGSA87	409019, 4207008

Elevation m	838
Elevation feet	2749.3
Region	Megaris

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Pollard [1968], 79    '(Dunbabin noted) ... fragments of roof-tiles, many of fine green fabric typical of the archaic Corinthian industry'. ... '
2.    Pottery.   Wiseman [1978], 37    'T.J. Dunbabin discovered a small site where pottery ranged in date from the Mycenaean to the Classical ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 38    'On the slopes immediately below the pointed summit of Loutraki mountain Dunbabin noted Mycenaean and Archaic sherds.'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 72    'LH and A sherds and A tiles were found on the slopes immediately below the summit of Loutraki mountain.'
5.    Sherds.   Ålin [1962], 60    ' ... T.J. Dunbabin 1939 mykenische, korinthische und spätere Scherben.'
6.    Sherds.   Pollard [1950], 64    'I followed the gully down in my descent, and noticed many scattered sherds, ... '
7.    Sherds.   Morgan [1999], 476    'A further sherd scatter including LH material ... '
8.    Sherds.   Pollard [1968], 79    ' ..., Dunbabin noted, 'and on the hill-side below, are sherds, Mycenaean, Proto-Corinthian or Corinthian, and Attic, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Pollard [1950]: 64, ' ... some of which (sherds, RHC) may have been prehistoric.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 38, 'On the slopes immediately below the pointed summit of Loutraki mountain Dunbabin noted Mycenaean and Archaic sherds.'
    b.    Ålin [1962]: 60, ' ... mykenische, ... '
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 72, 'LH and A sherds and A tiles ... '
    d.    Morgan [1999]: 476, 'A further sherd scatter including LH material ... '
    e.    Pollard [1968]: 79, ' ..., Dunbabin noted, 'and on the hill-side below, are sherds, Mycenaean, ... '
    f.    Wiseman [1978]: 37, 'T.J. Dunbabin discovered a small site where pottery ranged in date from the Mycenaean ... '

3. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 38, ' ... Dunbabin noted Mycenaean and Archaic sherds.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 72, 'LH and A sherds and A tiles ... '

NOTES

1. The location I have chosen, while not on the absolute summit of Loutraki, seems to conform best to the view in Pollard [1950], fig. 6(a). Additional sources mentioned in Simpson [1981]

Humfry Payne et al., Perachora; The sanctuaries of Hera Akraia and Limenia. Excavations of the British school of archaeology of Athens 1930-1933. I. Architecture, bronzes, terracottas. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1940. (pp. vii and 17).
Harold North Fowler, Richard Stillwell et al., Corinth; Introduction, Topography, Architecture. I,1, 1932, Cambridge, Mass. ISBN: 978-0-87661-011-4. (On p. 114, n. 1).

2. Good remarks in Wiseman [1978] 37.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Loutraki', pg. 60.

2. Morgan [1999]: Morgan, Catherine. Isthmia VIII; The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary . The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey, '38 Loutraki', pg. 476.

3. Pollard [1950]: Pollard, John R.T.. ‘A New Site on Mount Lutraki’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (45) 63-65., 'A New Site on Mount Lutraki', pg. 63. Online here.

4. Pollard [1968]: Pollard, John R.T.. ‘Mystery Site on Mount Lutraki’, Greece & Rome (15:1), pp. 78-81, Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association., 'Mystery Site on Mount Lutraki', pg. 78. Online here.

5. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 83 Loutraki Mountain', pg. 38. Online here.

6. 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 86 Loutraki Mountain', pg. 71. Online here.

7. Wiseman [1978]: Wiseman, James. The Land of the Ancient Corinthians. Paul Aströms Förlag, Göteborg, Sweden, 'FInally, on the "summit of the needle of rock" ... ', pg. 37.