Site details

Larissa 1 and Larissa 2

PK	C972
TITLE	Larissa 1 and Larissa 2
WGS84	37.642424° N, 22.718239° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.642424, 22.718239
LON/LAT	22.718239, 37.642424

DMS

37° 38' 32.7264" N

22° 43' 5.6604" E

W3W	owns, sorters, follow
UTM	34 S, 651592, 4167531
EGSA87	386769, 4166627

Elevation m	71
Elevation feet	232.9
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Foley [1988], 174    'The Deiras cemetery also began to be excavated .. yielding tombs of the Mycenaean period.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Philippa-Touchais [2015], 463    '... and chamber tomb Larissa 2, excavated by Protonotariou-Deilaki, seem to have contained the earliest burials of the Deiras cemetery, dating to LH IIA ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 174, '... Argos' most important prehistoric remains date to the MH...'

2. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Philippa-Touchais [2015]: 463, This is for Larissa 2: '.. dating to LH IIA ...'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Philippa-Touchais [2015]: 462, This is for Larissa 1. From Table 2 on p. 462.

NOTE

1. This concerns two separate tombs, Larissa 1 and Larissa 2.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Foley [1988]: Foley, Anne. The Argolid 800-600 B.C.: An Archaeological Survey : Together with an Index of Sites from the Neolithic to the Roman Period. Göteborg : P. Åströms Förlag, 1988., '9. Argos', pg. 172.

2. Philippa-Touchais [2015]: Philippa-Touchais, Anna, Deiras. ‘Argos: The Mycenaean cemetery revisited in the light of unpublished finds from W.Vollgraff's excavations’, Schallin and Tournavitou [2015], pp. 449-467, 'Topography and Location of the Tombs', pg. 449.