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Cape Philagra

PKC1209
TITLECape Philagra
WGS84 38.16094° N, 24.391751° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.16094, 24.391751
LON/LAT 24.391751, 38.16094

DMS 38° 9' 39.384" N,24° 23' 30.3036" E

W3Wfans, quality, thickset
UTM35 S, 271485, 4226887
EGSA87 534171, 4223457

Elevation m274
Elevation feet 899
RegionEuboea





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Fort

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Ålin [1962], 127    'Späthelladische Scherben und andere Funde sind sonst auf Euböa aus den folgenden Plätzen zu verzeichnen: ..., Filagra, ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Hankey [1952], 60    In note 14: 'L.H. sherds and other objects have also been found at the following places in Euboea, ..., Filagra.'
3.    Fort.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 234    ' ... a fortified hill site ... '
4.    Hab.   Fachard [2012], 240    'Les traces des vestiges et la céramique de surface actuellement visibles confirment l'hypothèse d'un habitat antique.'
5.    hab.   Simpson [1981], 57    '.. a fortified hill site of the Classical period, ...'
6.    Settlement.   Fachard [2012], 238    'Son origine remonte à l'époque mycénienne.'
7.    Sherds.   Fachard [2009], 917    'Mycenaean sherds were only noticed quite far from Styra, at the rocky spur of Philagra on the Aegean coast of the Island, ... '
8.    Sherds.   Hankey [1952], 60    'L.H. sherds and other objects have also been found at the following places in Euboea, ...: ..., Filagra.'
9.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 234    'A few LH sherds were found here, ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 57, 'LH C'
    b.    Fachard [2009]: 917, 'Mycenaean sherds ... '
    c.    Ålin [1962]: 127, ' ... Späthelladische ... '
    d.    Fachard [2012]: 238, 'Son origine remonte à l'époque mycénienne.' And p. 337 where the periods are given as ''HR, C, H, B, ... '
    e.    Hankey [1952]: 60, 'L.H. sherds and other objects have also been found ... '
    f.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 234, 'A few LH sherds were found here, ... '

NOTES

1.  An extensive discussion of Philagra is in Fachard [2012] 237-9 although primarily about its later periods.

2.  Fachard [2012] 238, fn. 397 says "Le toponyme pourrait être d'origine mycénienne: Phillagrā est un nom propre féminin, attesté sur une tablette de Knossos, .... "

3.  For more on Philagra see the entry on pg. 60 in M.H. Hansen and T.H. Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation, Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0198140993.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ålin [1962]:  Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., '', pg. 127.

2.  Fachard [2012]:  Fachard, Sylvian. La Défense du Territoire; Étude de la Chora Érétrienne et de ses Fortifications, École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce. InFolio Editions, CH-Gollion. 2012, 'Philagra', pg. 237. And p. 337, no. 182 'Philagra'
Online here.

3.  Fachard [2009]:  Fachard, Sylvian. ‘A Cyclopean Wall at Loupaka, near Dystos?’, A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Elladas (2009). 907-923., 2009, ''Southern Euboea in the Late Bronze Age'', pg. 917. Online here.

4.  Hankey [1952]:  Hankey, V.. ‘Late Helladic Tombs at Khalkis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (47), pp. 49-95. 1952., 'footnote 14b', pg. 60. Online here.

5.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'B 80 Cape Philagra', pg. 57. Online here.

6.  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., 'F 99 Philagra (Cape)', pg. 233. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1209 is at 38.16048° N, 24.39662° E, a straight-line distance of 429.1 m.