Maritsa: Kapsalovouno
| PK | C1372 |
| TITLE | Maritsa: Kapsalovouno |
| WGS84 | 36.377378° N, 28.101175° E |
| Accuracy | 500 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.377378, 28.101175 |
| LON/LAT | 28.101175, 36.377378 |
| DMS | 36° 22' 38.5608" N | , | 28° 6' 4.23" E |
| W3W | contestants, bargains, clinics |
| UTM | 35 S, 598773, 4026370 |
| EGSA87 | 867806, 4033336 |
| Elevation m | 73 |
| Elevation feet | 239.5 |
| Region | Dodecanese |
| Subregion | Rhodes |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem
TYPE
1. Cem. Georgiadis [2003], 36 'At least two tombs have been reported, ...'2. Chamber Tomb. Simpson [1981], 195 '..the remains of a chamber tomb on the eastern edge of a prominent hill named Kapsalovouno.'
3. Chamber Tomb. Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 139 '.. we were shown the remains of a chamber tomb ..'
4. Chamber Tomb. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 350 ' ... the remains of a chamber tomb on the E edge of a prominent hill named Kapsalovouno.'
5. Sherds. Benzi [1988], 62 'At Maritsa some LH IIIA-B sherds have been collected by Hope Simpson and Lazenby near the remains of a chamber tomb on the hill named Kapsalovouno, supposedly the same site as a small Mycenaean cemetery known to the Italian archaeologists as Coccala or Cocala.'
6. Sherds. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 350 ' ... sherds collected in the vicinity of the tomb in 1968, ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 195, 'MB? LH III(A-B)'
b. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'Middle Bronze Age? Early Mycenaean?'
2. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
a. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'Middle Bronze Age? Early Mycenaean?'
3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 195, 'MB? LH III(A-B)'
b. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'Probably L.H. IIIA'
c. Benzi [1988]: 62, 'At Maritsa some LH IIIA-B sherds have been collected ... '
d. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH III(A-B) sherds collected in the vicinity of the tomb ... '
4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
a. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, '... attributed to L.H. IIIA1; ...'
5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
a. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'L.H. IIIA 2?'
b. Georgiadis [2003]: 36, '..., in use from LH IIIA2 to LH IIIB.'
6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 195, 'MB? LH III(A-B)'
b. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'Local L.H. IIIB?'
c. Georgiadis [2003]: 36, '..., in use from LH IIIA2 to LH IIIB.'
d. Benzi [1988]: 62, 'At Maritsa some LH IIIA-B sherds have been collected ... '
e. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH III(A-B) sherds collected in the vicinity of the tomb ... '
NOTES
1. Georgiadis [2003], 36, reports that the tombs '...were not visible, so their actual position is not clear.'
2. This is the find spot for a nearly unique tin-encrusted kylix. See photo in Benzi [1988] 63, Fig. 8.
3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979] 350: ' ..., indicate that this is probably part of the cemetery of "Coccala", where three chamber tombs with dromoi were excavated in 1926.'
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Benzi [1988]: Benzi, Mario. ‘Mycenaean Rhodes: A Summary’, Dietz and Papachristodoulou [1988], pp. 59-72., 'LH IIIA:2', pg. 62.
Online here.
2. Dietz and Papachristodoulou [1988]: Dietz, Søren and Ioannis Papachristodoulou. Archaeology in the Dodecanese. The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities, Copenhagen, 1988., '',
3. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 36.
Online here.
4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Maritsa: Kapsalovouno', pg. 195.
Online here.
5. 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., 'Maritsa: Kapsalovouno: Coccala', pg. 139.
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., 'Maritsa: Kapsalovouno', pg. 350.
Online here.