Nisyros: Paliokastro of Mandraki
| PK | C1412 |
| TITLE | Nisyros: Paliokastro of Mandraki |
| WGS84 | 36.606435° N, 27.130701° E |
| Accuracy | 100 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.606435, 27.130701 |
| LON/LAT | 27.130701, 36.606435 |
| DMS | 36° 36' 23.166" N | , | 27° 7' 50.5236" E |
| W3W | wedge, reviewers, coconut |
| UTM | 35 S, 511689, 4051222 |
| EGSA87 | 779879, 4055491 |
| Elevation m | 104 |
| Elevation feet | 341.2 |
| Region | Dodecanese |
| Subregion | Nisyros |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Lithics. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 364 ' ..., some obsidian chips of the Yiali variety were found, ... '2. Sherds. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 364 ' ..., and some striped sherds which may be LH.'
3. Sherds. Melas [1988], 287 'A vertical handle of reddish brown clay and flattened section could possibly be LBA.'
4. Town. Iliad, ' And they that held Nisyrus and Crapathus and Casus and Cos, the city of Eurypylus, ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 364, 'EB? LB? A C H'
2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 364, ' ..., and some striped sherds which may be LH.'
3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Melas [1988]: 287, 'A vertical handle of reddish brown clay and flattened section could possibly be LBA.'
b. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 364, 'EB? LB? A C H'
4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 364, 'EB? LB? A C H'
NOTES
1. Additional: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby, 'Notes from the Dodecanese', The Annual of the British School at Athens (57) pp. 154-175, 1962, esp. p. 169. Online here.
2. For a description of the architecture of the fort at the Paliokastro see pgs. 118-119 in G.E. Bean and J.M. Cook, 'The Carian Coast III', BSA (52) 58-146. 1957, which is online here. Related and with some photographs now more than a century old is R.M. Dawkins and A.J.B. Wace, 'Notes from the Sporades, Astypalaea, Telos, Nisyros, Leros', in BSA (12) 165-169. 1905, which is online here.", null);
3. In Simpson [2018] 411 we read "On Palaiokastro neither Hope Simpson and Lazenby nor Melas were able to find any evidence of Mycenaean habitation; but there have been no archaeological excavations at the site."
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Iliad: Homer. Iliad. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924., '2.676', Online here.
2. Melas [1988]: Melas, M.. ‘Exploration in the Dodecanese: New Prehistoric and Mycenaean Finds’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (83), pp. 283-311. 1988., '1. Paliokastro', pg. 286.
Online here.
3. Simpson [2018]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'Nisyros (Il. 2.676)', pg. 410.
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., 'Mandraki: Kastro', pg. 364.
Online here.