Fountain House
| PK | C1821 |
| TITLE | Fountain House |
| WGS84 | 37.972263° N, 23.72583° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 37.972263, 23.72583 |
| LON/LAT | 23.72583, 37.972263 |
| DMS | 37° 58' 20.1468" N | , | 23° 43' 32.988" E |
| W3W | funded, natively, surfer |
| UTM | 34 S, 739432.88, 4206243.5 |
| EGSA87 | 475771, 4202485 |
| Elevation m | 139 |
| Elevation feet | 456 |
| Region | Attica |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Construction
TYPE
1. Sherds. Mountjoy [1995], 56 'It includes sherds decorated in the Pictorial Style, the Octopus Stirrup Jar Style and the Argive Close Style.'2. Stairway. Mountjoy [1995], 43 'On the north slope a stairway was constructed down a natural cleft in the rock to an underground spring, the whole construction being named the "Fountain House" by the excavator.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
a. Mountjoy [1995]: 43, 'The stairway was constructed at the same time as the Fortification Wall in LHIIIB, ...'
2. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Broneer [1939]: 422, But he says on that page something that sounds like LH IIIB: 'We can hardly go far wrong - provided the chronological scheme is correct - in assuming that the stairway was built in the second half of the thirteenth century before Christ.'
b. Mountjoy [1995]: 56, 'The large amount of LHIIIC Middle pottery in the shaft of the fountain on the North Slope of the Acropolis suggests a flourishing settlement ...'
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Broneer [1939]: Broneer, Oscar. ‘A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis’, Hesperia (8) pp. 317-433, 1939., '', pg. 317.
'But in the 1937 and 1938 campaigns of excavation on the North Slope of the Acropolis the unexpected discovery of a stairway leading down to an underground fountain enabled us to determine how the wall builders of Mycenaean times provided the citadel with water.'
Online here.
2. Camp [2001]: Camp, John M.. The Archaeology of Athens. Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2001., '', pg. 18.
3. Mountjoy [1995]: Mountjoy, Penelope A.. Mycenaean Athens. Paul Åströms Förlag, Jonsered, Sweden. 1995., 'The North Slope; The Fountain House', pg. 56.
4. Mountjoy [1995]: Mountjoy, Penelope A.. Mycenaean Athens. Paul Åströms Förlag, Jonsered, Sweden. 1995., 'The North Slope; The Fountain House', pg. 43.