Site details

Khokhlakoi

PK	C1437
TITLE	Khokhlakoi
WGS84	36.610746° N, 27.130115° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	36.610746, 27.130115
LON/LAT	27.130115, 36.610746

DMS

36° 36' 38.6856" N

27° 7' 48.414" E

W3W	odder, wavelike, storing
UTM	35 S, 511636, 4051700
EGSA87	779811, 4055967

Elevation m	4
Elevation feet	13.1
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Nisyros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Lithics.   Melas [1988], 288    'The terraces are strewn with ancient pottery and obsidian of the Yali type. Most of them may have been washed down from the cliffs south of the site ...'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [2018], 410    'Melas reported sherds probably Mycenaean from four locations in the vicinity of Mandraki: and Khohlakos (sic.) ... ' S. means Khokhlakoi.
3.    Sherds.   Melas [1988], 288    'The terraces are strewn with ancient pottery and obsidian of the Yali type. Most of them may have been washed down from the cliffs south of the site ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Melas [1988]: 288, 'The chronological age of the pottery is fairly wide, covering a period from the EBA down to Roman times.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [2018]: 410, 'Melas reported sherds probably Mycenaean from four locations in the vicinity of Mandraki: and Khohlakos (sic.) ... ' S. means Khokhlakoi.

NOTE

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.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '2. Khokhlakoi', pg. 288. Online here.

2. 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.