Site details

Sotira

PK	C1190
TITLE	Sotira
WGS84	36.700348° N, 24.506366° E
Accuracy	200 m.

LAT/LON	36.700348, 24.506366
LON/LAT	24.506366, 36.700348

DMS

36° 42' 1.2528" N

24° 30' 22.9176" E

W3W	copy, jottings, noises
UTM	35 S, 277238.36, 4064529.92
EGSA87	545082, 4061463

Elevation m	52
Elevation feet	170.6
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Melos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 317    'A robbed EB cemetery and largely destroyed LH chamber tomb are reported ... '
2.    Cem.   Renfrew [2011], 302    'Chance find of two box-shaped graves containing bones ... '
3.    Cem.   Simpson [1981], 190    'A robbed EB cemetery and a ruined Mycenaean chamber tomb were reported at Sotira ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'A robbed EB cemetery ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 317, 'A robbed EB cemetery ... '

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, ' ... and a ruined Mycenaean chamber tomb were reported at Sotira, ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 317, ' ... and largely destroyed LH chamber tomb are reported ... '

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'LH IIIA2(-B?)'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'LH IIIA2(-B?)'

NOTES

1. The church of Haghios Panteleimon (F5958) is in eastern central Melos. Just to the NNE of this church is a longish valley with an intermittent stream. On the east side of this valley is the upland area of Lagadha/Langhada (F5959). In this general region are located two find spots: C1190 (Sotira) and C1192 (Trypites). C1192 (Trypites) is reported as having been destroyed by quarrying/mining/construction before any investigative work could be undertaken. It is not possible to place either of these sites with any assurance. Renfrew [1982] does not know exactly where they are and gives suggested map coordinates showing that they are at the same longitude and that Trypites is about 100 m. S of Sotira and that they are both about 300 m E of Haghios Panteleimon (F5958) and about 800 m N. The placement shown here tries to follow Renfrew but should be regarded as purely notional.

2. The user should be aware that Renfrew's Sotira refers to a pair of Christian graves of the later Roman period. Simpson and Dickinson indicate that Sotira is a robbed EB cemetery and large destroyed LH chamber tomb.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Renfrew [2011]: Renfrew, Colin. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millenium BC. Oxbow Books. Second ed., 2011 (First edition 1972), '65. Langada (Sotira)', pg. 302. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Melos: Langada: Sotira and Trypites', pg. 190. 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., 'Langada: Sotira', pg. 317. Online here.