Site details

Halieis: Acropolis

PK	C889
TITLE	Halieis: Acropolis
WGS84	37.31318° N, 23.149034° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.31318, 23.149034
LON/LAT	23.149034, 37.31318

DMS

37° 18' 47.448" N

23° 8' 56.5224" E

W3W	sunspot, enter, raggy
UTM	34 S, 690437, 4131781
EGSA87	424446, 4129667

Elevation m	47
Elevation feet	154.2
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 58    'LN and possibly EH I material has been found on the Halieis acropolis.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 31    'In the excavations on and around the acropolis of Halieis Neolithic and possibly EH I material has been found, but the next period represented ... is the Protogeometric.'
3.    Sherds.   Jameson [1976], 84

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Jameson [1976]: 84, 'Aside from some meager remains of Latest Neolithic-Early Helladic (Early Bronze Age) occupation on the low acropolis and some isolated finds of Late Bronze Age date, the occupation of the site seems to have begun on a small scale in the eighth century B.C.'

2. EH I: (3100 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 31, ' ... and possibly EH I material has been found, ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 58, 'EH I?', ' ... and possibly EH I material ... '

3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Jameson [1976]: 84, 'Aside from some meager remains of Latest Neolithic-Early Helladic (Early Bronze Age) occupation on the low acropolis and some isolated finds of Late Bronze Age date, the occupation of the site seems to have begun on a small scale in the eighth century B.C.'

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 58, 'The next period represented is PG (unstratified finds).'

NOTE

1. This is the acropolis. The ancient city was located about 365 meters distant and at an angle of 61 degrees from the acropolis.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Jameson [1976]: Jameson, Michael H.. ‘The Southern Argolid: The Setting for Historical and Cultural Studies; Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus: Toward a Perspective on the Ethnography of Greece’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 268, pp. 74-91, 1976., 'The Argolid Exploration Project', pg. 84. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 44 Porto-Cheli and vicinity', pg. 31. Online here.

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 44 Porto-Cheli: Ancient Halieis', pg. 58. Online here.