Site details

Koiladha: Ayios Ioannis (Keladi)

PK	C888
TITLE	Koiladha: Ayios Ioannis (Keladi)
WGS84	37.429883° N, 23.132699° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.429883, 23.132699
LON/LAT	23.132699, 37.429883

DMS

37° 25' 47.5788" N

23° 7' 57.7164" E

W3W	pigtails, mods, tens
UTM	34 S, 688697, 4144697
EGSA87	423118, 4142628

Elevation m	1
Elevation feet	3.3
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 58    'LH IIIB material was found on a small low rocky promontory, ... '
2.    Settlement.   Simpson [1965], 22    'The settlement was small, ... '
3.    Settlement.   Jameson et al. [1994], 508    'Village; later a farmstead?'
4.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 58    'The settlement was small, ... '
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1965], 22    ' ..., and the recognizable sherds were LH IIIB ... '
6.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 31    '... the ancient settlement here, marked by Mycenaean and some Classical and later sherds, ...'
7.    Wall.   Ålin [1962], 52    'Heurtley soll hier gut erhaltene mykenische Mauerfragmente gesehen haben.'

SITE SIZE

- Jameson et al. [1994]  p. 508,  Size: 14000 sq. m.  'Ca. 1.4 ha (medium)'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 508, '3% are EH (sherds, RHC), ...'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 508, '...and a few (sherds, RHC) are possibly MH. ...'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 31, 'LH (including LH IIIB) C'
    b.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 508, 'Most (63%) (sherds, RHC) are LH, including kylixes, bowls, kraters, jars, and cooking ware ...'
    c.    Ålin [1962]: 52, ' ... mykenische ... '
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 58, 'LH IIIB material was found ... ', ' ... LH (incl. IIIB) ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1965]: 22, '...the recognizable sherds were LH IIIB (visit with my wife in 1959).'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 58, 'LH IIIB material was found ... ', ' ... LH (incl. IIIB) ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Keladi', pg. 52. 'Keladi' is, I think, Heurtley's rendering of 'Koiladhia'.

2. Jameson et al. [1994]: Jameson, Michael H, Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel. A Greek Countryside; The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 1994., 'F4. Ayios Ioannis.', pg. 508.

3. Simpson [1965]: Simpson, R. Hope. A Gazetteer and Atlas of Mycenaean Sites. London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1965., ''29 Ayios Ioannis (Koiladhia)'', pg. 22.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 43 Koiladha: Ayios Ioannis', pg. 31. Online here.

5. 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 43 Koiladha: Ayios Ioannis', pg. 58. Online here.