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Artemisia: Volimnos

PKC469
TITLEArtemisia: Volimnos
WGS84 37.110774° N, 22.171352° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.110774, 22.171352
LON/LAT 22.171352, 37.110774

DMS 37° 6' 38.7864" N,22° 10' 16.8672" E

W3Wsulky, intruding, collectives
UTM34 S, 604073, 4107803
EGSA87 337373, 4108438

Elevation m836
Elevation feet 2742.8
RegionMessenia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 288    'HAB.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1966], 121    'Surface pottery and other finds, ranging in date from Protogeometric to Hellenistic, ... '


SITE SIZE

- McDonald and Rapp [1972]  p. 288,  Size: 20000 sq. m.  '200 m N-S x 100 (max.) (2 ha)'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 288, 'LH?'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1966]: 121, ' ..., ranging in date from Protogeometric ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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, '138 (79E) Artemisia: Volimnos', pg. 288.

2.  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., '79E. Volimnos (Artemisia)', pg. 160. Online here.

3.  Simpson [1966]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. ‘The Seven Cities Offered by Agamemnon to Achilles (Iliad ix. 149 ff., 291 ff.)’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 61, 113-131. 1966., 'Volimnos (Artemisia)', pg. 121. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C469 is at 37.02237° N, 22.13488° E, a straight-line distance of 10 km and 361 m.