Site details
Eleona
| PK | C1423 |
| TITLE | Eleona |
| WGS84 | 36.812596° N, 27.156793° E |
| Accuracy | 500 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.812596, 27.156793 |
| LON/LAT | 27.156793, 36.812596 |
| DMS | 36° 48' 45.3456" N | , | 27° 9' 24.4548" E |
| W3W | resistant, messaging, curtain |
| UTM | 35 S, 513985, 4074095 |
| EGSA87 | 781460, 4078446 |
| Elevation m | 35 |
| Elevation feet | 114.8 |
| Region | Dodecanese |
| Subregion | Kos |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds
TYPE
1. Sherds. Simpson [1981], 201 '...some Mycenaean and later sherds were found, concentrated on a hill terrace about 100 m. broad, not far from a spring.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 201, 'LHIII(A-B)'
2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 201, 'LHIII(A-B)'
NOTE
1. I do not think that there is any meaningful sense in which the town of 'Eleona' can be said to exist. This little coastal plain is now the site of many large beach hotels. From Georgiadis [2012], p, 8 (24): 'At Eleona, an area in the northeastern part of the Halasarna plain, a Mycenaean cemetery was originally thought to have existed due to a misunderstanding of the Eleona and Langada toponym. Several hollows thought to be remnants of tombs, were preserved in the southern and northern parts of the low flat hill, which is located below the Mt. Dikaios range and next to the modern road. A number of sherds were found in the plateau, while today the hill is heavily eroded and bulldozed, and no remains of the hollows are preserved.'
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Georgiadis [2012]: Georgiadis, M.. Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012., '', Online here.
2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Eleona', pg. 201.
Online here.