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Thera: Exomiti

PKC1196
TITLEThera: Exomiti
WGS84 36.333559° N, 25.441983° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 36.333559, 25.441983
LON/LAT 25.441983, 36.333559

DMS 36° 20' 0.8124" N,25° 26' 31.1388" E

W3Wheld, anteater, unafraid
UTM35 S, 360168, 4022073
EGSA87 629269, 4021623

Elevation m3
Elevation feet 9.8
RegionCyclades
SubregionThera





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Schallin [1993], 24    'An early LBA vessel was bought here, on the south coast, ... '
2.    Pottery.   Hiller von Gaertringen [1904], 42    'Fig. 31. Ausguß gefäß. Museums Inv. 440. Höhe ohne Henkel 0.30m. Der Thon theräisch. Matte braune Farbe. "Aus Exomyti", 1897 von Schiff gekauft und den Museum von Thera geschenkt.'
3.    Pottery.   Davis and Cherry [1990], 190    'Reputed findspot of an LC I vase purchased in 1879.'
4.    Pottery.   Scholes [1956], 13    'This is the provenance given for a vase purchased by von Schiff in 1879.'
5.    Pottery.   Barber [1981], 20    'LC I vases have been reported from the area.'
6.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 344    'A complete vase was bought here in 1879.'
7.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 191    'A vase of LM IA type was bought here in 1879.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, ' ... findspot of an LC I vase ... '
    b.    Barber [1981]: 20, 'LC I vases have been reported from the area.'

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 24, 'An early LBA vessel ... ', The LM I is encompassed in the 'early LBA' in Schallin [1993]; see table 1 on pg. 8.

3. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 191, 'LM IA'

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 24, 'An early LBA vessel ... '

5. Late Bronze I: (1570 BC - 1400 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 191, 'LB I'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 344, 'LB I'

NOTES

1.  This LB I/LM I vase is illustrated in Hiller von Gaertringen [1904] 42, Fig. 31.

2.  Some of our sources give 1879 as the year of Alfred Schiff's purchase of this vase. Hiller von Gaetringen (the earliest source?) gives 1897 as the purchase date.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Barber [1981]:  Barber, R.L.N.. ‘The Late Cycladic Period: A Review’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (76), pp. 1-21, 1981., '43. Exomiti ... ', pg. 20. Online here.

2.  Davis and Cherry [1990]:  Davis, J.L. and J.F. Cherry. ‘Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri’, In Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990] 185-200, 'Exomiti', pg. 190. Online here.

3.  Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990]:  Hardy, D.A. et al. (eds.). Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume one. Archaeology. . Proceedings of the third international congress Santorini, Greece 3-9 September 1989., '',

4.  Hiller von Gaertringen [1904]:  Hiller von Gaertringen, Friedrich (ed.). Thera; Untersuchungen, Vermessungen und Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1895-1902, Band 3. Berlin, verlag von Georg Reimer, 1904., '', pg. 42. Online here.

5.  Schallin [1993]:  Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '52. Exomiti (Exomytis)', pg. 24.

6.  Scholes [1956]:  Scholes, Kathryn. ‘The Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age: A Synopsis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 51 (1956), pp. 9-40, 'Exomiti', pg. 13. Online here.

7.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Thera: Exomiti', pg. 191. Online here.

8.  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., 'Exomiti', pg. 344. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1196 is at 36.33229° N, 25.44221° E, a straight-line distance of 142.5 m.