Punta Meliso
| PK | C1500 |
| TITLE | Punta Meliso |
| WGS84 | 39.794459° N, 18.366581° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 39.794459, 18.366581 |
| LON/LAT | 18.366581, 39.794459 |
| DMS | 39° 47' 40.0524" N | , | 18° 21' 59.6916" E |
| W3W | sketch, instigator, anyways |
| UTM | 34 S, 274525, 4408262 |
| EGSA87 | 17401, 4419864 |
| Elevation m | 0 |
| Elevation feet | 0 |
| Region | Italy |
| Subregion | Apulia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds
TYPE
1. Pottery. van Wijngaarden [2002], 253 ' ... Mycenaean finds ... '2. Pottery. Bettelli [2002], 26 'Notevole la presenza di ceramica micenea ... '
3. Sherds. Benzi et al.[1996], 126 '...providing evidence for the establishment in Apulia of a small group of Mycenaean refugees, ...'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. van Wijngaarden [1999]: 538, 'EARLIEST: LHIIIB'
2. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Benzi et al.[1996]: 127,
b. van Wijngaarden [2002]: 253, 'Most of the Mycenaean finds at Punta Meliso di Leuca (site no. 309) belong to an advanced stage of LH IIIC.'
c. Bettelli [2002]: 26, ' ... la presenza di ceramica micenea TE IIIC late, ... '
NOTES
1. And see Benzi, M. and G. Graziadio, Late Mycenaean Pottery from Punta Meliso (Santa Maria di Leuca), in E. De Miro, L. Godart, A. Sacconi (a cura di), "Atti e Memorie del Secondo Congresso Internazionale di Micenologia, Roma Napoli, 1991", Roma 1996 (ISBN: 9788880110750), pp. 1523-1529.
2. 'Capanna 3'
3. For Leuca (S. Maria di Leuca) see the bibliography in fn. 7 on p. 474 in Borgna [2017].
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Benzi et al.[1996]: Benzi, Mario, Giampaolo Graziadio, Giovanni Boschian. ‘The Last Mycenaeans in Italy?; Late LHIIIC Pottery from Punta Meliso, Leuca’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, 38, pp. 95-138, 1996, 'The Last Mycenaeans in Italy?', pg. 95.
Online here.
2. Bettelli [2002]: Bettelli, Marco. Italia meridionale e mondo miceneo. Ricerche su dinamiche di acculturazione e aspetti archeologici, con particolare riferimento ai versanti adriatico e ionico della penisola italiana. No. 5 in Grandi Contesti e Problemi della Protostoria italiana. All'Insegna del Giglio, Firenze, Italia. 2002., '42. S. Maria di Leuca - Punta Meliso (Lecce)', pg. 26.
Online here.
3. Borgna [2017]: Borgna, Elisabetta. ‘The Last Mycenaeans and the Adriatic connection: a view from the Trapeza cemetery, Eastern Achaea’, In Fotiadis et al. (eds.) 2017, pp. 473-482., 'fn. 7', pg. 474.
Online here.
4. Fotiadis et al. (eds.) [2017].: M.Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y.Lolos, A.Vlachopoulos. The Aegean seen from the West. Proceedings of the 16th International Aegean Conference. Leuven, Peeters, '',
5. van Wijngaarden [1999]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''295 Leuca (Punta Meliso)'', pg. 536.
Online here.
6. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., '', pg. 253.
Online here.