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Palaiokastro: Tripes (ancient Bouphagion)

PKC341
TITLEPalaiokastro: Tripes (ancient Bouphagion)
WGS84 37.539409° N, 21.959187° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.539409, 21.959187
LON/LAT 21.959187, 37.539409

DMS 37° 32' 21.8724" N,21° 57' 33.0732" E

W3Wimaginary, briefing, finals
UTM34 S, 584739, 4155146
EGSA87 319548, 4156383

Elevation m410
Elevation feet 1345.1
RegionArcadia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Lithics.   Howell [1970], 101    'Khristou also ... found obsidian blades... '
2.    Settlement.   Ålin [1962], 73    ' ... ein Akropolishügel mit antiken Befestigungs- und Siedlungsresten.'
3.    Settlement.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 308    'HAB - ...'
4.    Settlement.   Howell [1970], 101    'Khristou also identified some Mycenaean walls there, and found obsidian blades and Mycenaean sherds including some which he calls Sub-mycenaean.'
5.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 88    ' ..., are the remains of ancient Bouphagion.'
6.    Settlement.   Messenia I, 227    'An acropolis above the old village of Tripes ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Messenia I: 227, Implied from apparent connection to C482.
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 308, 'LH'
    c.    Howell [1970]: 101, 'Khristou also identified some Mycenaean walls there, and found ... Mycenaean sherds ...'
    d.    Simpson [1981]: 88, 'Some Mycenaean walls were identified here, and obsidian and Mycenaean sherds were found.'

2. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 73, 'Christou konnte hier mykenische Mauern und Keramik, die bis in die submykenische Zeit weitergeht, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ålin [1962]:  Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Palaiokastro', pg. 73.

2.  Howell [1970]:  Howell, R.. ‘A Survey of Eastern Arcadia in Prehistory’, The Annual of the British School at Athens. 65. November, 1970. 79-127., '55. Palaiokastro - ayia Sotira and Palaiopyrgos (anc. Bouphagion).', pg. 101. Connected to C482
Online here.

3.  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, '330 (11) Tripes: Paliokastro', pg. 308.

4.  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., '11. Palaiokastro (Tripes)', pg. 227. Online here.

5.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'D 17 Palaiokastro: Ayia Sotira and Palaiopyrgos', pg. 88. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C341 is at 37.42724° N, 21.65721° E, a straight-line distance of 29 km and 452 m.