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Kalavarda: Aniforo Hill or Tzitzo or Kaminaki-Lures

PKC1377
TITLEKalavarda: Aniforo Hill or Tzitzo or Kaminaki–Lures
WGS84 36.337931° N, 27.945424° E
Accuracy 20 m.

LAT/LON 36.337931, 27.945424
LON/LAT 27.945424, 36.337931

DMS 36° 20' 16.5516" N,27° 56' 43.5264" E

W3Wfuses, stomach, crooned
UTM35 S, 584845, 4021846
EGSA87 854005, 4028374

Elevation m46
Elevation feet 150.9
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Georgiadis [2003], 37    'At Kalavarda ..., on the Aniforo hill, the area, where the Aniforo, Tzitzo and Kaminaki-Lures cemeteries may have been situated, was identified...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 141    'Eight Mycenaean chamber tombs have been excavated in the vicinity.'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 196    'Eight Mycenaean chamber tombs have been excavated in the area to south of Kalavarda, at locations variously described as "Tzitzo", "Kaminaki Lures" and "Aniforo", including one with a double dromos.'
4.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 351    'Eight LH chamber tombs have been excavated here (variously described as at "Tzitzo", "Kaminaki-Lures" or "Aniforo"), ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'MB? LH IIIA2-C G C H'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '..., which was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIC.'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'MB? LH IIIA2-C G C H'
    b.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '..., which was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 141, 'Mycenaean pottery from the Kalavarda tombs as a whole spans the periods L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1 (inclusive).'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 351, 'Their contents span the periods LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'MB? LH IIIA2-C G C H'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 141, 'Mycenaean pottery from the Kalavarda tombs as a whole spans the periods L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1 (inclusive).'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 351, 'Their contents span the periods LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'

5. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, ' ..., which was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIC.'

6. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, ' ..., which was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIC.'

7. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'MB? LH IIIA2-C G C H'
    b.    Georgiadis [2003]: 37, '..., which was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 351, 'Their contents span the periods LH IIIA2 to LH IIIC.'

8. LH IIIC1: (1190 BC - 1130 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 141, 'Mycenaean pottery from the Kalavarda tombs as a whole spans the periods L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1 (inclusive).'

NOTES

1.  Location taken from the map in Georgiadis [2003] 280, Fig. 5.23 and cf. photos 5.24, 5.25.

2.  In Laurenzi [1959], an article on ancient Kameiros, we read 'Intorno, sulle alture e nelle valli, erano situate le necropoli, di cui le più importanti sono quelle di Fichellura, Checraci, Patelle, Calatomilo, Papatislures, Macri Langoni.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Georgiadis [2003]:  Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 37. Georgiadis reproduces the Simpson-Lazenby sketch map in fig. 5.23.
Online here.

2.  Laurenzi [1959]:  Laurenzi, L.. ‘Camiro’, Treccani; Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, '', Online here.

3.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Kalavarda: Aniforo', pg. 196. Online here.

4.  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., 'Kalavarda: Aniforo', pg. 141. See here for a discussion of the history of the excavations in this area.
Online here.

5.  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., 'Kalavarda: Aniforo', pg. 351. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1377 is at 36.34858° N, 27.94484° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 186 m.