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Acrosciro-Calopetra

PKC1371
TITLEAcrosciro–Calopetra
WGS84 36.38496° N, 28.060789° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 36.38496, 28.060789
LON/LAT 28.060789, 36.38496

DMS 36° 23' 5.856" N,28° 3' 38.8404" E

W3Wscuttles, repayment, battle
UTM35 S, 595141, 4027170
EGSA87 864146, 4034024

Elevation m28
Elevation feet 91.9
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 195    '..and a report of two Mycenaean tombs...'
2.    Tomb.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 138    
3.    Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 350    ' ... one report of two tombs at a place "Acrosciro-Calopetra" described as "fra i villagi di Tolo e Damatria" appears reliable.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 195, 'LH'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 138, '...two Mycenaean tombs...'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH', ' ... LH tombs ... '

NOTE

1.  Simpson and Lazenby [1973] 138 is my primary reference for this site. Their source is Laurenzi's Memorie, ii, 51 where L. says that two Mycenaean tombs were discovered at a place 'fra i villaggi di Tolo e Damatria' at a place called 'Acrosciro-Calopetra'. I believe that this site is now lost. As Simpson and Lazenby say, (138, 'Damatria') "...and the directions are in any case insufficient." Georgiadis [2003] 37 did not locate it 'Due to a lack of evidence the sites of ..., Kalopetra ... could not be located.' My marker was simply placed notionally on the road between these two towns Tolo/Theologos and Damatria.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Damatria: Acrosciro-Calopetra', pg. 195. '..and a report of two Mycenaean tombs at a place "Acrosciro-Calopetra" described as "Fra i villagi di Tolo e Damatria".'
Online here.

2.  Simpson and Lazenby [1973]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Damatria', pg. 138. 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., 'Damatria: "Acrosciro-Calopetra"', pg. 350. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1371 is at 36.39444° N, 28.04924° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 478 m.