Site details

Troy

PK	C1492
TITLE	Troy
WGS84	39.957274° N, 26.238585° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	39.957274, 26.238585
LON/LAT	26.238585, 39.957274

DMS

39° 57' 26.1864" N

26° 14' 18.906" E

W3W	downhill, assassins, chairs
UTM	35 S, 434965, 4423293
EGSA87	691065, 4425128

Elevation m	35
Elevation feet	114.8
Region	Anatolia
Subregion	Troad

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Kelder [2006], 54    'A large amount of Mycenaean pottery was found at Troy.', 'However, some of the pottery at Troy probably came from the Greek mainland.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 210    'It should be emphasised that the wares of Mycenaean style, which are most frequent in Troy VIIa, never form a high proportion of the pottery in any of the periods in question.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

3. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

4. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

5. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2006]: 54, 'Mycenaean pottery is first attested at Troy in Troy VId, contemporary with LH IIA (Mountjoy 1997c, 292).'

6. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

7. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2006]: 54, 'Blegen estimated that the 1000 or so sherds recovered by the Cincinnati expedition represented 700-800 pots, from the layers Troy VIf-h.'

8. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

9. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Kelder [2006]: 54, 'Blegen estimated that the 1000 or so sherds recovered by the Cincinnati expedition represented 700-800 pots, from the layers Troy VIf-h.'

10. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'

11. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH I-IIIC A C H'
    b.    Kelder [2006]: 54, 'Most of the pottery at Troy has a linear or patterned decoration. There is one notable exception: a LH IIIC krater with pictorial decoration (Mountjoy1997b, 296-274), i.e. a lion and a bird.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Kelder [2006]: Kelder, Jorrit M.. ‘Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia’, Talanta (36-37), 49-86. 2004-2005., 'TROY-HISSARLIK', pg. 54. Online here.

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