Site details

Kalloni: Agios Georgios

PK	C846
TITLE	Kalloni: Agios Georgios
WGS84	37.540497° N, 23.306245° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.540497, 23.306245
LON/LAT	23.306245, 37.540497

DMS

37° 32' 25.7892" N

23° 18' 22.482" E

W3W	lectures, accountancy, redemption
UTM	34 S, 703753, 4157334
EGSA87	438563, 4154772

Elevation m	16
Elevation feet	52.5
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   BCH Online, 1936    Settlement
2.    Settlement.   Foley [1988], 182    'Many LH and C sherds have been found at this site ...', 'The settlement was probably of a fair size and lay in a strategic place, ...'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 54    'Good quality LH sherds were found on the flat top, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 54,  Size: 5500 sq. m.  ' ... which measures about 110 m. E-W by 50 m., ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 182, 'EH LHIIIA-B ...'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    BCH Online: 1936, ... a Middle Helladic settlement which continued into the early Mycenaean period

3. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    BCH Online: 1936, ... a Middle Helladic settlement which continued into the early Mycenaean period

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 182, 'EH LHIIIA-B ...'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 54, 'LH IIIA-B C','Good quality LH sherds were found on the flat top, ... '

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 182, 'EH LHIIIA-B ...'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 54, 'LH IIIA-B C','Good quality LH sherds were found on the flat top, ... '

NOTE

1. Additional:

Kalloni - Agios Georgios. In BCH/BSA online here. This notice is from 2006. Excavation in 2005-6 of a MH settlement which continued to early Mycenaean period. Previously reported LHIIIA-B sherds here.
E. Konsolake-Yiannopoulou, 'The Middle Helladic Establishment at Megali Magoula, Galatas (Troizenia)' (online here) in A. Philipa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds), Mesohelladika (BCH supp. 52), Paris/Athens 2006, 68. .

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Kalloni - Agios Georgios', no. 1936. Online here. Online here.

2. 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., '42. Kalloni (Ayios Yeoryios)', pg. 182.

3. 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 32 Kalloni: Ayios Yeoryios', pg. 54. Online here.