Site details
Argalasti
| PK | C1282 |
| TITLE | Argalasti |
| WGS84 | 39.225082° N, 23.217998° E |
| Accuracy | Unknown |
| LAT/LON | 39.225082, 23.217998 |
| LON/LAT | 23.217998, 39.225082 |
| DMS | 39° 13' 30.2952" N | , | 23° 13' 4.7928" E |
| W3W | swamped, showy, equivocal |
| UTM | 34 S, 691460, 4344099 |
| EGSA87 | 432351, 4341759 |
| Elevation m | 259 |
| Elevation feet | 849.7 |
| Region | Magnesia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. Simpson [1981], 165 'An alabastron, marked "Khortokastron Argalastes" in the Almyros museum was noted by Hunter ...'2. Pottery. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 276 'An alabastron marked "Khortokastron Argalastes" was noted by Hunter in the Almyros Museum.
3. Tholos. Simpson [1981], 165 'A Dark Age tholos tomb was noted near Argalaste'
4. Tholos. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 276 'A DA tholos was noted near Argalasti ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 165, 'It is probably LH IIIA2.'
b. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 276, 'LH III(A2-B) PG?'
2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 276, 'It (the alabastron, RHC) is probably LH IIIA2 rather than LH IIIB.'
3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 165, 'LH III(A2-B) PG?'
b. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 276, ? 'A DA tholos was noted near Argalasti ..., '
NOTE
1. Location marked 'N' because there is no information regarding its place of origin. Additonal biblio: PAE (1914), 221. Also A. Hunter, The Bronze Age in Thessaly and its Environs, with Special Reference to Mycenaean Culture (B. Litt. thesis, Oxford 1953).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 13 Argalasti: Khortos', pg. 165.
And see C1283
Online here.
2. 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., 'H 5 Argalasti', pg. 276.
Online here.