Site details

Saria: ta Palatia

PK	C1408
TITLE	Saria: ta Palatia
WGS84	35.887481° N, 27.231733° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.887481, 27.231733
LON/LAT	27.231733, 35.887481

DMS

35° 53' 14.9316" N

27° 13' 54.2388" E

W3W	recall, combust, cackle
UTM	35 S, 520915, 3971493
EGSA87	791583, 3976006

Elevation m	14
Elevation feet	45.9
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Saros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Melas [1985], 45    'In 1889 W. Paton presented to the British Museum a group of bronze implements ... They were allegedly found on Saros and we believe that they may come from the area of Palatia.'
2.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 359    'Implements found on Saria consist of a bronze dagger blade ..., a bronze chisel, a flat celt, and a small black stone axe.'
3.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 359    ' ..., and a small black stone axe.'
4.    Sherds.   Melas [1985], 45    '...plenty of pot sherds ...on the bed of a ravine which ends at the pebble beach of Palatia.'
5.    Tools.   Simpson [1981], 200    'Implements found on Saria include a dagger blade of LH type and a bronze chisel.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'EB? LB C H?'
    b.    Melas [1985]: 45, 'Their date ranges from EB I to MB I according to Branigan ...'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 358, 'EB? LB C'

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 45, 'Their date ranges from EB I to MB I according to Branigan ...'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 359, ' ... a bronze dagger blade of LH type, ... '

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'EB? LB C H?'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 358, 'EB? LB C'

NOTES

1.  I am following Melas [1985] 76 for the location of this extensive site.

2.  The bronze implements in question are described in H.B. Walters, JHS (17) pp. 64-5 from 1897 as Bronze objects from Suria or Saria. They are illustrated online here.

3.  Also Simpson and Lazenby, 'Notes from the Dodecanese', in BSA (57) pp. 167-8, 'Saria'.

4.  Melas' reference 'Branigan 1974' is to Keith Branigan, Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. Oxford. 1974 (ISBN-13: 978-0198132134).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'K57. Palatia', pg. 45.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Saria: Ta Palatia', pg. 200. Online here.

3. 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., 'Saria', pg. 358. Online here.

4. Walters [1897]: Walters, H.B.. ‘On Some Antiquities of the Mycenaean Age Recently Acquired by the British Museum’, Journal of Hellenic Studies (17) 63-77. 1897., 'II. - Bronze', pg. 64. Online here.