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Alampra Mouttes

PKC1805
TITLEAlampra Mouttes
WGS84 34.986087° N, 33.393755° E
Accuracy 200 m.

LAT/LON 34.986087, 33.393755
LON/LAT 33.393755, 34.986087

DMS 34° 59' 9.9132" N,33° 23' 37.518" E

W3Whemisphere, shard, picky
UTM36 S, 535937, 3871571
EGSA87 1358513, 3911784

Elevation m282
Elevation feet 925.2
RegionCyprus





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 324    'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Alambra


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 324, Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery

NOTE

1.  This position was adapted from the UTM coordinates on pg. 436 of the Ph.D. thesis of George Andreou, Traversing Space: Landscape and Identity in Bronze Age Cyprus which is here. .

Additional material about Alampra/Alambra (Alambra Mouttes) in:

  1. John Coleman, Alambra : a middle Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus : archaeological investigations by Cornell University 1974-1985, SIMA 118, ISBN: 9170811563. There are some details here.
  2. An announcement, in 2014, from the Ministry of the Interior, Republic of Cyprus, 'Archaeological Research At Mouttes Of Alampra, Cyprus' which is here.
  3. A fine article is Kelsey M. Lowe et al. "Archaeological geophysical survey of a Prehistoric Bronze Age site in Cyprus (Alambra Mouttes) - applications and limitations", 2016 which may be found here.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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. 324. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1805 is at 34.93414° N, 33.64163° E, a straight-line distance of 23 km and 342 m.