Site details

Ayios Isidoros

PK	C1387
TITLE	Ayios Isidoros
WGS84	36.166201° N, 27.849461° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.166201, 27.849461
LON/LAT	27.849461, 36.166201

DMS

36° 9' 58.3236" N

27° 50' 58.0596" E

W3W	reattach, rungs, unforgiving
UTM	35 S, 576400, 4002717
EGSA87	846145, 4008965

Elevation m	538
Elevation feet	1765.1
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 353    'A stirrup-jar in the British Museum is said to be from here.'
2.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 197    'A Mycenaean vase in the British Museum is said to be from here.'
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 147    'A False-necked Jar in the British Museum is attributed to this provenance.'
4.    Pottery.   Georgiadis [2003], 199    'stirrup jar'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 197, 'LH III (B)?'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 147, 'It seems to be L.H. IIIB.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 199, 'III B'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 353, 'LH III(B?)'

NOTES

1.  No locational information given. Marker was placed on the town.

2.  Georgiadis [2003] 38 says this: 'The sites of Ayios Isidoros ..., Siana ... and Monolithos ... were quite problematic, as Hope Simpson and Lazenby have pointed out, and they could not be located ... '

3.  For the stirrup-jar Simpson and Dickinson [1979] give the reference as: 'BMCat A no. 1025 ... ' This is catalogue no. 'A 1025' on p. 198 of Forsdyke, Edgar J. (ed.); British Museum Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Vol. 1,1): Prehistoric Aegean Pottery, London, 1925 which is online here.

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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., 'Appendix C.3 The Pots from the Tombs on Rhodes', pg. 199. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Ayios Isidoros', pg. 197. Online here.

3. 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., 'Ayios Isidoros', pg. 147. 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., 'Ayios Isidhoros', pg. 353. Online here.