Pyrrha: Acropolis
| PK | C1775 |
| TITLE | Pyrrha: 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 |
| W3W | celebrating, driveway, puffy |
| UTM | 35 S, 438170.06, 4334487.72 |
| EGSA87 | 697232, 4336442 |
| Elevation m | 49 |
| Elevation feet | 160.8 |
| Region | NE Aegean |
| Subregion | Lesbos |
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.