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Philadelphiana (or Narech) Toumba

PK	C1654
TITLE	Philadelphiana (or Narech) Toumba
WGS84	40.783514° N, 22.828041° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.783514, 22.828041
LON/LAT	22.828041, 40.783514

DMS

40° 47' 0.6504" N

22° 49' 40.9476" E

W3W	armfuls, grazes, poky
UTM	34 T, 654246.87, 4516333.11
EGSA87	400964, 4515100

Elevation m	65
Elevation feet	213.3
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   French [1967], 64    '?Animal protome - 49'
2.    Mound.   French [1967], 29    'Topography: mound, on a high isolated knoll ... '
3.    Sherds.   French [1967], 64    'Myc - 47 (? local)'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 181    'Only three sherds of local LB and one Mycenaean were recorded by French, and the Mycenaean shard was thought to be a local imitation.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 181, 'EB MB LB LH (III)'
    b.    French [1967]: 64, '?EB - 11'

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 181, 'EB MB LB LH (III)'
    b.    French [1967]: 64, 'MB - GM: 41-43'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    French [1967]: 64, 'Myc - 47 (? local)'

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 181, 'EB MB LB LH (III)'
    b.    French [1967]: 64, 'LB - Brown b: 44-46'

5. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 181, 'EB MB LB LH (III)'

NOTES

1. A series of valuable drawings and century-old photographs of the toumba is in Rey [1921] 67-71.

2. The Mycenaean Atlas Project would like to thank Dr. Stratos Nanoglou of the University of Thessalonika for making available a copy of French [1967] which would have been otherwise difficult to obtain.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. French [1967]: French, D.H.. Index of Prehistoric Sites in Central Macedonia and Catalogue of Sherd Material in The University of Thessaloniki. Athens, 'Philadelphiana Toumba (Nares) G 5', pg. 29.

2. Rey [1921]: Rey, Léon. Observations sur les premiers habitats de la Macédoine; Recueillies par le Service Archéologique de l'Armée d'Orient; 1916-1919 (Région de Salonique). E. De Boccard, Paris, '', Online here.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'L 37 Philadelphiana Toumba', pg. 181. DH French, CM No G 5
Online here.