Site details

Gavurtepe

PK	C1472
TITLE	Gavurtepe
WGS84	38.3391° N, 28.520033° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.3391, 28.520033
LON/LAT	28.520033, 38.3391

DMS

38° 20' 20.76" N

28° 31' 12.1188" E

W3W	paraded, players, quest
UTM	35 S, 632842, 4244533
EGSA87	894961, 4252831

Elevation m	267
Elevation feet	876
Region	Anatolia
Subregion	Lydia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    settlement.   Luwian Studies [nd],     'The settlement is located on the southwest side of the district city Alaşehir in the Manisa province.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 209    '... two Mycenaean sherds of LH IIIA date (one is LH IIIA2) have been found on the surface of the mound of Gavurtepe near Alasehir, ...'
3.    Sherds.   Luwian Studies [nd],     http://luwianstudies.org/sites/gavurtepe-alasehir/ 'Some Mycenaean pottery was also found'
4.    Sherds.   Kelder [2006], 60    'Mee (1978, 128) reports two Mycenaean surface sherds from this site. One probably is a LH IIIA2 flask, decorated with linear bands and a wavy line; the other may come from an askos or a rhyton and is decorated with dots and five wavy lines.', ' More Mycenaean sherds were found in later years in the LBA settlement,'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Luwian Studies [nd]: , 'Periods: BYZ, CH, EBA, HL, LBA, MBA'

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'MB LB LH IIIA2'
    b.    Luwian Studies [nd]: , 'Periods: BYZ, CH, EBA, HL, LBA, MBA'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Luwian Studies [nd]: , 'Some Mycenaean pottery was also found'

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'MB LB LH IIIA2'
    b.    Luwian Studies [nd]: , 'Recep Meriç dated the megaron based on ceramics to the middle of the 2nd mill. BCE or a little later. Machteld J. Mellink argued that it was erected in the 15th cent. BCE and that it burned down towards the end of the Bronze Age'

5. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, '...two Mycenaean sherds of LH IIIA date (one is LH IIIA2) have been found on the surface of the mound...'
    b.    Kelder [2006]: 60, 'A megaron built in the 15th century and burned down later in the second millennium, yielded a Mycenaean handle'

6. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, '...two Mycenaean sherds of LH IIIA date (one is LH IIIA2) have been found on the surface of the mound...'
    b.    Kelder [2006]: 60, '...probably is a LH IIIA2 flask,...'

NOTES

1. Position of C1472 at 38.339100, 28.520033 is taken from Luwian Studies web site: http://luwianstudies.org/sites/gavurtepe-alasehir/

2. Position from: http://luwianstudies.org/sites/gavurtepe-alasehir/

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Kelder [2006]: Kelder, Jorrit M.. ‘Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia’, Talanta (36-37), 49-86. 2004-2005., 'Gavurtepe - Alasehir', pg. 60. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Gavurtepe', pg. 209. Online here.

3. Luwian Studies [nd]: Zangger, Eberhard. , 'Gavurtepe-Alaşehir Number: 36', Online here. Online here.