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Maritsa: Kapsalovouno

PKC1372
TITLEMaritsa: 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

W3Wcontestants, bargains, clinics
UTM35 S, 598773, 4026370
EGSA87 867806, 4033336

Elevation m73
Elevation feet 239.5
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





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.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1372 is at 36.40902° N, 28.09056° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 648 m.