Site details

Kalamos: Ayia Sophia

PK	C1109
TITLE	Kalamos: Ayia Sophia
WGS84	36.149503° N, 23.018606° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.149503, 23.018606
LON/LAT	23.018606, 36.149503

DMS

36° 8' 58.2108" N

23° 1' 6.9816" E

W3W	mystified, scruff, vines
UTM	34 S, 681600, 4002418
EGSA87	411566, 4000688

Elevation m	92
Elevation feet	301.8
Region	Kythera

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 122    ' ... and "polished Bronze Age pottery" was found here.'
2.    Pottery.   Benton [1931], 245    'In the cave of H. Sophia near Kapsali, besides polished Bronze Age pottery, there was a sherd with dark on light wavy lines ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 111    'Miss Benton found a LM I sherd and "polished Bronze Age pottery" here.'
4.    Sherds.   Laconia II, 152    'Miss Benton found a L.M. I sherd here and 'polished Bronze Age pottery'.'
5.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 122    ' ...: a LM I sherd ... was found here.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 111, "polished Bronze Age pottery"
    b.    Laconia II: 152, "polished Bronze Age pottery"
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 122, ' ... and "polished Bronze Age pottery" was found here.'

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 111, 'Miss Benton found a LM I sherd and "polished Bronze Age pottery" here.'
    b.    Laconia II: 152, 'Miss Benton found a L.M. I sherd here ... '
    c.    Benton [1931]: 245, ' ..., there was a sherd with dark on light wavy lines (L.M. I).'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 122, ' ...; a LM I sherd ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Benton [1931]: Benton, Sylvia. ‘The Ionian Islands’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (32), pp. 213-246, 1931/32., '11. Kythera', pg. 245. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 56 Kalamos: Ayia Sophia (Kythera)', pg. 111. 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., 'C 52 Kythera: Ayia Sophia', pg. 122. Online here.

4. Laconia II: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'The Cave of Ayia Sophia', pg. 152. Online here.