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Mega Monastirion: Magoula

PK	C1287
TITLE	Mega Monastirion: Magoula
WGS84	39.446882° N, 22.693719° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	39.446882, 22.693719
LON/LAT	22.693719, 39.446882

DMS

39° 26' 48.7752" N

22° 41' 37.3884" E

W3W	typhoid, garages, devise
UTM	34 S, 645739, 4367738
EGSA87	387450, 4366897

Elevation m	96
Elevation feet	315
Region	Pelasgiotis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 279    ' ..., which contained much pottery (including a painted toy chariot and two yoked horses), gold and glass jewellery, and fine sealstones.'
2.    Artifacts.   Simpson [1981], 165    'They contained much Mycenaean pottery (including a painted toy chariot and two yoked horses), gold and glass jewellery, and fine sealstones.'
3.    Cem.   AD[1964], 255
4.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 165    '... five large rock-cut chamber tombs (the first to be found in Thessaly) have been excavated.'
5.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 279    ' ... five large and rich rock-cut chamber tombs ... have been excavated, ... '
6.    Chamber Tomb.   Daux [1967], 709    '...une tombe à chambre qui a été pillée par les paysans.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Daux [1967]: 709, '...qui appartenaient à un cimetière mycénien, ...'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    AD[1964]: 255,

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 165, 'LH IIIA1-B PG'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 279, 'LH IIIA1-B PG'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 165, 'LH IIIA1-B PG'
    b.    AD[1964]: 255,
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 279, 'LH IIIA1-B PG'

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    AD[1964]: 255,
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 279, 'LH IIIA1-B PG'

NOTE

1. The 'Magoula hill' to which Simpson [1981] (p. 165, H 15) refers is at F1789 and can clearly be discerned in Google Earth. I have placed the marker somewhat arbitrarily on the N bank of the little stream that flows past it on the S. There is another large magoula, Neolithic as far as I am aware, at 39.443179°, 22.681662° which is just 1 km. distant to the SW. This other magoula is called Megalo Magoula 2 by the IGEAN (Innovative Geophysical Approaches for the Study of Early Agricultural villages of Neolithic Thessaly). More here: http://igean.ims.forth.gr/?q=en/node/1580.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AD[1964]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 19, '', pg. 255.

2. Daux [1967]: Daux, Georges. ‘Chronique des fouilles’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. (91:2), 623-889. 1967., 'Méga Monastirion', pg. 708. ' '
Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 15 Mega Monastirion: Magoula and Livadhi', pg. 165. Online here.

4. 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 16 Mega Monastirion: Magoula', pg. 279. Online here.