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Koskinou: Hab

PKC1403
TITLEKoskinou: Hab
WGS84 36.386154° N, 28.213935° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 36.386154, 28.213935
LON/LAT 28.213935, 36.386154

DMS 36° 23' 10.1544" N,28° 12' 50.166" E

W3Wship, sounding, tagging
UTM35 S, 608876, 4027464
EGSA87 877886, 4034747

Elevation m112
Elevation feet 367.5
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 155    'Charitonides published a collection of vases recovered from the vicinity of Koskinou.'
2.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 357    'A collection of ... vases was found here, and were thought to be from one tomb.'
3.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 199    'A collection of LH IIIA2-C vases was recovered from the vicinity of Koskinou.'
4.    Tomb.   Georgiadis [2003], 40    'As for the Koskinou area ... and the vases recovered from a tomb, ...'


SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 199,  Size:  sq. m.  'No Mycenaean habitation site has yet been found here, but search has not yet been sufficiently thorough.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 199, 'LH IIIA2-C'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 155, 'They range from L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 40, 'The tomb was used from LH IIIA2 until LH IIIC.'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 357, ' ... of LH IIIA2-C vases was found ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 199, 'LH IIIA2-C'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 155, 'They range from L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1.'
    c.    Georgiadis [2003]: 40, 'The tomb was used from LH IIIA2 until LH IIIC.'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 357, ' ... of LH IIIA2-C vases was found ... '

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 199, 'LH IIIA2-C'
    b.    Georgiadis [2003]: 40, 'The tomb was used from LH IIIA2 until LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 357, ' ... of LH IIIA2-C vases was found ... '

4. LH IIIC1: (1190 BC - 1130 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 155, 'They range from L.H. IIIA 2 to L.H. IIIC 1.'

NOTE

1.  But the tomb, source of the vases, was not located either by Simpson or by Georgiadis.

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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. 40. '..., there is no indication of its topography and thus locating it was impossible...'
Online here.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Koskinou', pg. 199. 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., 'Koskinou', pg. 155. 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., 'Koskinou', pg. 357. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1403 is at 36.37233° N, 28.22676° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 921 m.