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Thebes: Electrai Gates

PK	C3036
TITLE	Thebes: Electrai Gates
WGS84	38.317578° N, 23.320179° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.317578, 23.320179
LON/LAT	23.320179, 38.317578

DMS

38° 19' 3.2808" N

23° 19' 12.6444" E

W3W	brass, snails, batches
UTM	34 S, 702837, 4243599
EGSA87	440422, 4240983

Elevation m	201
Elevation feet	659.4
Region	Boeotia

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Cist Tomb.   Symeonoglou [1985], 235    '...Eleven single inhumation cist burials were found ...'
2.    Sherds.   Symeonoglou [1985], 235    'Middle Helladic pottery was found inside the west tower of the gates ...', '...layers beneath the east tower...clearly Mycenaean, packed with Mycenaean pottery and roof tiles; ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Keramopoullos [1917]: 22,
    b.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 234, 'Middle Helladic pottery ...'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 234, 'Late Helladic remains were limited to the layers beneath the east tower...'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Keramopoullos [1917]: 14,

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Keramopoullos [1917]: 14,

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 234, 'The cemetery has been dated on the basis of the pottery to the Submycenaean and Protogeometric periods...'

6. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Symeonoglou [1985]: 234, 'The cemetery has been dated on the basis of the pottery to the Submycenaean and Protogeometric periods...'

7. Early Protogeometric: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Keramopoullos [1917]: 25,

8. Middle Protogeometric: (1000 BC - 950 BC)
    a.    Keramopoullos [1917]: 25,

NOTE

1. Site contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Keramopoullos [1917]: Keramopoullos, Antonios. ‘Thebaika’, Archaiologikon Deltion (3), pp. 1-503. Athens, Greece. 1917., '',

2. Symeonoglou [1985]: Symeonoglou, Sarantis. The Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 1985., 'Site 7. Kadmeia I-13', pg. 234.