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Acropolis Defence Wall

PKC1844
TITLEAcropolis Defence Wall
WGS84 37.971271° N, 23.725822° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.971271, 23.725822
LON/LAT 23.725822, 37.971271

DMS 37° 58' 16.5756" N,23° 43' 32.9592" E

W3Wglobal, pink, geology
UTM34 S, 739435, 4206133
EGSA87 475770, 4202375

Elevation m132
Elevation feet 433.1
RegionAttica





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Wall

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Mountjoy [1995], 40    ' ... sherds from a stirrup jar, ...', ' ... many unpainted kylixes and deep bowls ... '
2.    Wall.   Mountjoy [1995], 40    'On the Acropolis ... the Fortification Wall was constructed, all at one time, in the second half of LHIIIB according to Iakovides.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Mountjoy [1995]: 40, On the Acropolis ... the Fortification Wall was constructed, all at one time, in the second half of LHIIIB according to Iakovides.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Mountjoy [1995]:  Mountjoy, Penelope A.. Mycenaean Athens. Paul Åströms Förlag, Jonsered, Sweden. 1995., 'LHIIIB2', pg. 40.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1844 is at 37.93859° N, 23.68916° E, a straight-line distance of 4 km and 857 m.