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Papoulia: Ayos Ioannis

PKC322
TITLEPapoulia: Ayos Ioannis
WGS84 37.013706° N, 21.737543° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.013706, 21.737543
LON/LAT 21.737543, 37.013706

DMS 37° 0' 49.3416" N,21° 44' 15.1548" E

W3Wrevisions, slyly, cheeses
UTM34 S, 565612, 4096647
EGSA87 298567, 4098498

Elevation m292
Elevation feet 958
RegionMessenia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 145    'A large, slightly oval mound (13 m. E-W) was excavated here, ... '
2.    Mound.   Boyd [2001], 119    'Description: burial mound with many pithos burials,'
3.    Mound.   Messenia I, 240    'A large tumulus 50 m. north of the Platanos-Papoulia road ...'
4.    Mound.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 274    'Multiple burial mound; empty chamber in center of stone core; burials in pithoi facing outward around edge'
5.    Mound.   Zavadil [2012], 540    '...ein Tumulus.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 544, '...Mittelhelladikum...'
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 274, 'MH, LHIIIC'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 145, ' ..., there seems no doubt that this was of MH date; ... ', 'A possibly MH cist was found nearby.'

2. Middle Helladic I: (2000 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 544, 'Besonders die Pithoi ... sind nach Korres in die Spätphase der mittleren BronzeZeit zu datieren.'
    b.    Boyd [2001]: , ' ..., although some in the 1978 report are regarded as MHI, ... '

3. Middle Helladic II: (1900 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 544, 'I. Kilian-Dirlmeier postulierte eine Datierung des sog. hufeisenförmigen Baues in MH I/II ...'
    b.    Boyd [2001]: 119, ' ..., and MHII is also certainly present (asserted by the excavator and Howell ... '

4. Middle Helladic III: (1775 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 544, '...MH II/III...'
    b.    Boyd [2001]: 119, 'Many of the (few) other items are said to be MHIII also, ... '

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 274, 'MH, LHIIIC'

NOTES

1.  Boyd [2001] 122: ' ... the chronology of the mound is problematic and has not been resolved.'

2.  See a diagram of the mound floor-plan in Boyd [2001] 123, fig. A1.14.1.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Boyd [2001]:  Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, '14: Ayos Ioánnis Papoúlia', pg. 119. Online here.

2.  McDonald and Rapp [1972]:  McDonald, William A. and George R. Rapp, Jr.. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 1972, '52 Papoulia: Ayios Ioannis', pg. 274.

3.  Messenia I:  McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '50. Ayios Ioannis (Papoulia)', pg. 240. Online here.

4.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'D 52 Papoulia: Ayios Ioannis', pg. 144. Online here.

5.  Zavadil [2012]:  Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'Papoulia/Ag. Ioannis (Ep. Pylias)', pg. 540. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C322 is at 36.95011° N, 21.7014° E, a straight-line distance of 7 km and 775 m.