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Soulinari: Tourlidhitsa

PK	C389
TITLE	Soulinari: Tourlidhitsa
WGS84	36.961242° N, 21.811871° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.961242, 21.811871
LON/LAT	21.811871, 36.961242

DMS

36° 57' 40.4712" N

21° 48' 42.7356" E

W3W	streetlight, fancied, dolls
UTM	34 S, 572274, 4090881
EGSA87	305047, 4092522

Elevation m	377
Elevation feet	1236.9
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Messenia III, 151    ' ...; but a bronze razor and tongue-shaped knife are said to place it after 1400 B.C.'
2.    Cem.   ERGON[1966], 107
3.    Mound.   Messenia III, 151    ' ... a scrub-covered artificial mound rises on a low natural ridge.'
4.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 555    'Tholosgrab'
5.    Tholos.   Messenia III, 151    'Professor Marinatos excavated a small collapsed tholos tomb here in 1966 and 1967.'
6.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 206    'La tholos de Tourliditsa, dans le région de Chandrinou, est située à environ 1 km au Sud-Est du village de Solinari et à même distance à l'Est-Nord-Est du tumulus funéraire de Kissos (T1).'
7.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 120    'A small tholos tomb was excavated here on a low ridge about 900 m. southeast of the Kalamata-Pylos road and 500 m. west of the branch road to Milioti.'
8.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 137    '...a small tholos tomb (d. 5.1 m.), robbed in H times, was excavated.'
9.    Tholos.   Boyd [2001], 133    'this badly preserved tholos tomb was covered by a low elongated mound...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 207, 'La tholos, d'après son mobilier céramique et un couteau de bronze certainement antérieur à 1400 av. J.-C., a été datée par Marinatos de l'HR II-IIIA.'

2. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 556, 'Datierung: Marinatos datierte die Tholos in die Zeit von SH IIB bis SHIIIA.'
    b.    Boyd [2001]: 133, 'Chronology: finds of LHIIB-LHIIIA are present certainly in the tomb, but otherwise no clear dating is possible. MH-type finds are likely intrusive from surrounding settlement remains'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Messenia III: 151, ?? '..said to place it after 1400 B.C.'
    b.    Zavadil [2012]: 556, 'Datierung: Marinatos datierte die Tholos in die Zeit von SH IIB bis SHIIIA. Jüngere Publikationen tendieren zu einer Einordnung des Grabes ausschließlich in die Periode SH IIIA.'
    c.    Simpson [1981]: 120, 'LH IIIA(1?) H'
    d.    Pelon [1976]: 207, 'La tholos, d'après son mobilier céramique et un couteau de bronze certainement antérieur à 1400 av. J.-C., a été datée par Marinatos de l'HR II-IIIA.'
    e.    ERGON[1966]: 107,
    f.    Boyd [2001]: 133, 'finds of LHIIB-LHIIIA are present certainly in the tomb, but otherwise no clear dating is possible.'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 120, 'LH IIIA(1?) H'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 137, 'LH IIIA(1?) H'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    ERGON[1966]: 107,

NOTE

1. Zavadil specifies 500 m. w of road to Milioti and 900 m. SE of road from Kalamata to Pylos

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. ERGON[1966]: To ergon tes Archaiologikes Hetaireias, Athenai: Archaiologike Hetaireia. 1966., '', pg. 107.

2. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, '19: Solinári Tourlidhítsa', pg. 133. Online here.

3. Messenia III: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1964-1968’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 123-177., '68A. Tourlidhitsa (Soulinari)', pg. 151. Online here.

4. Pelon [1976]: Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '22. Tourliditsa', pg. 206. Online here.

5. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 34 Soulinari: Tourlidhitsa', pg. 120. Online here.

6. 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 29 Soulinari: Tourlidhitsa', pg. 137. Online here.

7. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'SOULINARION/TOURLIDITSA (EP. PYLIAS)', pg. 555. Online here.