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Çerkes Sultaniye

PK	C1470
TITLE	Çerkes Sultaniye
WGS84	38.7° N, 27.316667° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	38.7, 27.316667
LON/LAT	27.316667, 38.7

DMS

38° 42' 0" N

27° 19' 0.0012" E

W3W	tanker, foundering, dovetail
UTM	35 S, 527536, 4283534
EGSA87	788293, 4288422

Elevation m	105
Elevation feet	344.5
Region	Anatolia
Subregion	Aeolis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pithos Burial.   Kelder [2006], 57    '...a pithos grave was found by a local inhabitant, in which one Mycenaean piriform jar (LH IIIB) was found together with a local vase and a local monochrome jar...'
2.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 208    'A Myceaean piriform jar, thought to be of Rhodian manufacture, was found in a local LB pithos burial at Çerkes Sultaniye near Manisa, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 208, 'LB LH III(A-B)'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 208, 'LB LH III(A-B)'

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 208, 'LB LH III(A-B)'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 208, 'LB LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Kelder [2006]: 57, 'a pithos grave was found by a local inhabitant, in which one Mycenaean piriform jar (LH IIIB) was found together with a local vase and a local monochrome jar'

NOTE

1. The lat/lon pair that I found for Çerkes Sultaniye is from the website (http://es.getamap.net/mapas/turkey/manisa/_cerkessultaniye/) and the terms are probably rounded down. If that's so then the actual position will be more to the northeast. It could, conceivably, be the neighboring hill of Çerkes Tevfikiye (F2124). 'Çerkes' means 'Circassian' in Turkish.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Kelder [2006]: Kelder, Jorrit M.. ‘Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia’, Talanta (36-37), 49-86. 2004-2005., 'Çerkes Sultaniye', pg. 57. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Çerkes Sultaniye', pg. 208. Online here.