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Pyrrha: Acropolis

PKC1775
TITLEPyrrha: Acropolis
WGS84 39.157402° N, 26.284376° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 39.157402, 26.284376
LON/LAT 26.284376, 39.157402

DMS 39° 9' 26.6472" N,26° 17' 3.7536" E

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UTM35 S, 438170.06, 4334487.72
EGSA87 697232, 4336442

Elevation m49
Elevation feet 160.8
RegionNE Aegean
SubregionLesbos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Building.   Spencer [1995/2019], 21    ' ..., and the earliest structural remains on the acropolis are of the 8C.'
2.    hab.   Syriopoulos [1995], 1125    
3.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 323    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Pyrrha.
4.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 527    'Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery'
5.    Pottery.   Spencer [1995/2019], 21    'The earliest grey wares found on the acropolis of Pyrrha by Boehlau during his exccavations of 1906-07 may date settlement activity there from the EBA.'
6.    Settlement.   Spencer [1995/2019], 21    'The earliest grey wares found on the acropolis of Pyrrha by Boehlau during his exccavations of 1906-07 may date settlement activity there from the EBA.'
7.    Sherds.   Spencer [1995/2019], 21    ' ... and some LH IIIA/B Mycenaean sherds).'
8.    Walls.   Spencer [1995/2019], 21    'The acropolis was walled from the A. period.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, 'The earliest grey wares found on the acropolis of Pyrrha by Boehlau during his exccavations of 1906-07 may date settlement activity there from the EBA.'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, 'Buchholz was of the opinion that the LBA. was the most strongly represented phase of the prehistoric period, ... '

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1125,
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, ' ... and some LH IIIA/B Mycenaean sherds).'

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 223, ...Mycenaean Pottery
    b.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 527, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 223, ...Mycenaean Pottery
    b.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1125,
    c.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 527, 'LHIIIB: Yes'
    d.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, ' ... and some LH IIIA/B Mycenaean sherds).'

6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, 'The cemetery to the sw. of the acropolis (at the foot of the Geniotos hill) dates from the PG. period, ... '

7. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, ' ..., and the earliest structural remains on the acropolis are of the 8C.'

8. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 21, 'The acropolis was walled from the A. period.'

NOTE

1.  This position taken from Spencer [1995] 282, fig. 4(a).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Spencer [1995/2019]:  Spencer, Nigel. A Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites in Lesbos. BAR International Series 623; BAR Publishing, Oxford UK., '*99 Pyrrha', pg. 21.

2.  Spencer [1995]:  Spencer, Nigel. ‘Early Lesbos between East and West: A 'Grey Area' of Aegean Archaeology’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (90) 269-306. 1995., '', Online here.

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

4.  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., ''232 Pyrrha'', pg. 527. Online here.

5.  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., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean Pottery', pg. 223. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1775 is at 39.15847° N, 26.28309° E, a straight-line distance of 162.4 m.