Site details

Antissa

PK	C1497
TITLE	Antissa
WGS84	39.291391° N, 26.01896° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	39.291391, 26.01896
LON/LAT	26.01896, 39.291391

DMS

39° 17' 29.0076" N

26° 1' 8.256" E

W3W	shopkeepers, scoots, slanders
UTM	35 S, 415399, 4349572
EGSA87	673965, 4350770

Elevation m	13
Elevation feet	42.7
Region	NE Aegean
Subregion	Lesbos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Spencer [1995/2019], 35    ' ..., and a large cemetery (LG.-C.) was excavated by Lamb to the se. of the acropolis (known as 'Kokkino Limani'), an area where the shore is covered with a dense scatter of ceramics.'
2.    Settlement.   Spencer [1995/2019], 35    'The earliest evidence for settlement activity at the site may date to the EBA.'
3.    Sherds.   Spencer [1995/2019], 35    'Myc. sherds are also associated with a wall on the acropolis, ... '
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 209    '...excavations at Antissa also produced a few Mycenaean sherds, and local imitations, and a small stirrup-jar from the site was recorded by Furtwaengler and Loeschke.'
5.    Wall.   Spencer [1995/2019], 35    ' ... including substantial walls extending below sea level.', ' ... a wall on the acropolis, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'The earliest evidence for settlement activity at the site may date to the EBA.'

2. Troy II: (2350 BC - 2250 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'Mellaart is said to have identified sherds from Antissa as being of Troy II period.'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'Myc. sherds are also associated with a wall on the acropolis, ... '

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'LB LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? PG G A C H'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'There are significant LBA. strata on the promontory ... '

5. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'LB LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? PG G A C H'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'LB LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? PG G A C H'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, Or LHIIIC ? ' ... details of more (unpublished) LMyc. sherds exist in the archives of the BSA.'
    c.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'Bayne dated the LBA. grey wares to the LH IIIB-C period (with LH IIIB predonimating).'

7. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'LB LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? PG G A C H'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, 'Bayne dated the LBA. grey wares to the LH IIIB-C period ... '

8. Middle Geometric: (850 BC - 760 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, ' ... with successive MG., LG. and A. strata.'

9. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, ' ... with successive MG., LG. and A. strata.'

10. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 35, ' ... with successive MG., LG. and A. strata.'

NOTE

1. Spencer's reference to Bayne is: N.P. Bayne, The grey wares of north-west Anatolia in the middle and late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age and their relation to the early Greek settlements (Diss. University of Oxford, 1963). Similar works to Bayne's dissertation are

Bayne, N.P. 1963 (2000). The Grey Wares of Northwest Anatolia in the Middle and Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age and their Relation to the Early Greek Settlements. Asia Minor Studien 37. Bonn. ISBN: 978-3774930094
Peter Pavuk, 'Grey Wares as a Phenomenon', June 12, 2008. Online here and here

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

2. Spencer [1995/2019]: Spencer, Nigel. A Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites in Lesbos. BAR International Series 623; BAR Publishing, Oxford UK., '*161. Obriokastro', pg. 35.