Site details

Skoura: Melathria: Cem

PK	C5057
TITLE	Skoura: Melathria: Cem
WGS84	37.038056° N, 22.498089° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.038056, 22.498089
LON/LAT	22.498089, 37.038056

DMS

37° 2' 17.0016" N

22° 29' 53.1204" E

W3W	litmus, jetliner, plunder
UTM	34 S, 633232, 4100143
EGSA87	366279, 4099861

Elevation m	190
Elevation feet	623.4
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Banou [1996], 36    '...wurden 1966 6 Kammergräber von Demakooulou ausgegraben, ...', also some type phi figurines, buttons, etc.
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 109    'Chamber tombs were dug into the soft rocks on its S and E sides, ... '
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 109    ' ... consisting mainly of pottery, but include an early LH IIIA vase decorated with a human figure, ... '
4.    Pottery.   Demacopoulou [1971], 95    'The large pictorial jug pictured here ... was discovered in 1966 in a plundered Mycenaean chamber tomb ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Banou [1996]: 36, '32 Vasen wurden ... im SH IIIA-B datieren.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 109, ... include an early LH IIIA vase ... '
    c.    Demacopoulou [1971]: 100, ' ... the first stage of pictorial vase painting, which belongs to the L.H. IIIA and IIIB periods, ... '
    d.    Demacopoulou [1971]: 100, ' ... we have strong reasons to place it very early in the development of Mycenaean p ictorial pottery: actually at its beginning, in the L.H. IIIA I period, just at the end of the fifteenth century B.C.'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 109, 'LH IIIA1-IIIB'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Banou [1996]: 36, '32 Vasen wurden ... im SH IIIA-B datieren.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 109, 'LH IIIA1-IIIB'
    c.    Demacopoulou [1971]: 100, ' ... the first stage of pictorial vase painting, which belongs to the L.H. IIIA and IIIB periods, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Banou [1996]: Banou, Emilia. Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg. 1996, '6. Skoura: Melathria', pg. 36.

2. Demacopoulou [1971]: Demacopoulou, K.. ‘A Mycenaean Pictorial Vase of the Fifteenth Century B.C. from Laconia’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (66) 95-100. 1971, 'A Mycenaean Pictorial Vase of the Fifteenth Century B.C. from Laconia', pg. 95. Online here.

3. 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., 'C 5 Skoura: Melathria', pg. 109. Online here.