Site details

Lesbos: Thermi

PK	C1499
TITLE	Lesbos: Thermi
WGS84	39.176715° N, 26.503763° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	39.176715, 26.503763
LON/LAT	26.503763, 39.176715

DMS

39° 10' 36.174" N

26° 30' 13.5468" E

W3W	groans, shadowed, stepladder
UTM	35 S, 457137, 4336504
EGSA87	716131, 4339086

Elevation m	8
Elevation feet	26.2
Region	NE Aegean
Subregion	Lesbos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Spencer [1995/2019], 6    ' ..., and bronze weaponry.'
2.    hab.   Syriopoulos [1995], 1125
3.    Pottery.   Spencer [1995/2019], 6    ' ... imported Myc. wares ...', ' ... local copies of similar style pottery, ... '
4.    Pottery.   Lamb [1931], 161    ' ... fragments of imported Mycenaean pottery, ... ', 'Fragments of kylikes occur; there are pieces of kraters, ...
5.    Settlement.   Spencer [1995/2019], 6    'Winifred Lamb excavated an extensive EBA.-LBA. settlement from 1929 to 1933 ... '
6.    Sherds.   Desborough [1964/2007], 159    '...either from the Mycenaean sherds and imitations, ...'
7.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 209    'Two at least of the Mycenaean sherds are probably LH IIIA, and the remainder probably are also.'
8.    Sherds.   Lamb [2014], 142

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH IIIA'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 6, 'Winifred Lamb excavated an extensive EBA.-LBA. settlement ... '

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH IIIA'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 6, 'Winifred Lamb excavated an extensive EBA.-LBA. settlement ... '

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Lamb [2014]: 142,
    b.    Lamb [1931]: , ' ... imported Mycenaean pottery, ...', 'No sherds either at Thermi or Antissa belong to the late stages of Mycenaean ware like the Granary class.'

4. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 6, ' ... from the latter period date imported Myc. wares (of LH II-IIIA date).'

5. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH IIIA'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 6, 'Winifred Lamb excavated an extensive EBA.-LBA. settlement ... '

6. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 209, 'EB MB LB LH IIIA'
    b.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1125,
    c.    Desborough [1964/2007]: 160, '...there is nothing to indicate that it survived the fourteenth century, ...'
    d.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 6, ' ... from the latter period date imported Myc. wares (of LH II-IIIA date).'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1125,

NOTE

1. Lamb [1931] 160-161 also describes imitations of Mycenaean ware present at the site.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Desborough [1964/2007]: Desborough, V.R.d'A.. The Last Mycenaeans and Their Successors: An Archaeological Survey, c. 1200 - c. 1000 B.C.. Wipf & Stock, 2007. Originally published in 1964 by Oxford University Press. , '3. The Aegean Islands and the West Coast of Asia Minor', pg. 158.

2. Lamb [2014]: Lamb, Winifred. Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos. Cambridge University Press, 2014; originally published 1936., 'Middle and Late Bronze Age', pg. 142.

3. Lamb [1931]: Lamb, Winifred. ‘Excavations at Thermi’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (31) 148 - 165. 1931., '', pg. 161. Online here.

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

5. Spencer [1995/2019]: Spencer, Nigel. A Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites in Lesbos. BAR International Series 623; BAR Publishing, Oxford UK., '*11. Pyrgoi Thermis', pg. 6.

6. Syriopoulos [1995]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Γενικος Συνοπτικος Καταλογος Των Περιεχομενων και των Δυο Τομων: Δευτερος Τομος. Athens: Athens Archaeological Society. 1995., '', pg. 1125.