PKey Report
PKC609
TITLEStavros: Pelikata
WGS84 38.453746° N, 20.644995° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 38.453746, 20.644995
LON/LAT 20.644995, 38.453746

DMS 38° 27' 13.4856" N,20° 38' 41.982" E

W3Walerts, underarms, recurs
UTM34 S, 469024, 4256221
EGSA87 207075, 4261208

Elevation m147
Elevation feet 482.3
RegionIonian Islands
SubregionIthaca





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    'A number of disturbed pithos burials were excavated in area I ... , and a single child burial in area IV.'

2.    hab.   Simpson [1981], 158    '..some foundations of a Mycenaean house were traced.'

3.    Pottery.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    ' ..., and just one (area VI) Mycenaean pottery.'

4.    Pottery.   Heurtley [1934], 3    'Pottery associated with these blocks was invariably Early Helladic.'

5.    Settlement.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    'Ancient occupation on the hill has been known since the 19th century.'

6.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 185    'EH II was found everywhere, ... '

7.    Sherds.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    'In 1905 Vollgraff picked up Mycenaean sherds on the hill, ... '

8.    Sherds.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    'and just one (area VI) Mycenaean pottery. Compared to the hundreds of sherds and the several complete pots and other artefacts of EH date, the quantity of MH material (ninety sherds of Grey Minyan and related wares) and of LH material (sixty sherds,mostly kylix stems and bases) is small.'

9.    Wall.   Heurtley [1934], 3    'Remains above ground and visible before excavation were large roughly-worked stone blocks, which clearly formed the foundation of a circuit-wall enclosing the summit.'

10.    Wall.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    'Only a few blocks from the "Cyclopean" wall ... may be in their original place, ... '



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)

    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 'The excavations revealed that the hill was occupied from the EBA right through to the LBA, ... '

2. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)

    a.    Heurtley [1934]: 3 'Pottery associated with these blocks was invariably Early Helladic.'

3. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185 'EH II was found everywhere, ... '

    b.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 'The most substantial evidence for habitation dates from the EBA(EH II-III), ... '

4. EH III: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185 ' ..., but EH III and MH were more restricted.'

    b.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 'The most substantial evidence for habitation dates from the EBA(EH II-III), ... '

5. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 158 'EH II-III MH LH III(A2-B) '

    b.    Heurtley [1934]: 6 ' ...; but in two of them a small proportion of 'Minyan' ... was found.'

    c.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 ' ..., the quantity of MH material (ninety sherds of Grey Minyan and related wares) and of LH material (sixty sherds, mostly kylix stems and bases) is small.'

6. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)

    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 '.. one (area VI) Mycenaean pottery.'

    b.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 'In 1905 Vollgraff picked up Mycenaean sherds on the hill, ... '

    c.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93 ' ..., the quantity of MH material (ninety sherds of Grey Minyan and related wares) and of LH material (sixty sherds, mostly kylix stems and bases) is small.'

7. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185 'LH III only occurred near the summit, ... '

    b.    Heurtley [1934]: 6 ' ...; but in two of them a small proportion of 'Minyan' and in one of LH III as well was found.'

    c.    Heurtley [1934]: 6 From Area VI: ' ... and 60 LH III fragments, 39 of which are from kylikes or krateriskoi.'

8. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 158 'EH II-III MH LH III(A2-B) '

9. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 158 'EH II-III MH LH III(A2-B) '

10. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185 'Some of the pottery classed as LH III may in fact be DA, ... '

11. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185 ' ... one sherd originally attributed to EH III has been classed as SubG.'


NOTES

1.  See the very fine area drawings in Heurtley [1934]; his inventory of the pottery begins on p. 60.

2.  Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999] 93 says "There was no diagnostic LH IIIC pottery,"

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Heurtley [1934]:  Heurtley, W.A.. ‘Excavations in Ithaca II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (35) 1-44. 1934., 'The Early Helladic Settlement at Pelikáta', pg. 1. Online here.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'G 26 Stavros: Pelikata', pg. 158. '..Mycenaean..occurred only near the top ..'
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., 'E 14 Ithaca: Pelikata', pg. 185. Online here.

4.  Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]:  Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina. The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 3000-800 B.C.. Liverpool University Press. 1999. , 'Pelikata (47)', pg. 93. Online here.