Theotokou: Cem: Thaumakie
| PK | C5153 |
| TITLE | Theotokou: Cem: Thaumakie |
| WGS84 | 39.191798° N, 23.343466° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 39.191798, 23.343466 |
| LON/LAT | 23.343466, 39.191798 |
| DMS | 39° 11' 30.4728" N | , | 23° 20' 36.4776" E |
| W3W | lemonade, gecko, hatter |
| UTM | 34 S, 702387, 4340677 |
| EGSA87 | 443154, 4337979 |
| Elevation m | 6 |
| Elevation feet | 19.7 |
| Region | Magnesia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem
TYPE
1. Cem. Wace and Droop [1907], 63 '...three tombs were discovered.'2. Cemetery. Wace and Thompson [1912], 209 ' ..., and three early iron age tombs were discovered.'
3. Cemetery. Simpson [2018], 465 'The cist tombs excavated by Wace and Thompson ... were on a hillside near the chapel of Panayia Theotokos ... '
4. Pottery. Wace and Thompson [1912], 209 'All the vases are of class ΔIα.'
5. Settlement. Wace and Thompson [1912], 209 ' ..., traces of a small Greek town, ... '
6. Town. Iliad, 'And they that dwelt in Methone and Thaumacia, and that held Meliboea and rugged Olizon, ... '
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
a. Simpson [2018]: 465, 'The burials range from SMyc to Early Geometric ... '
2. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Wace and Droop [1907]: 321, 'All three were approximately of the same period, namely the Geometric period of the early Iron Age; ...'
3. Early Geometric: (900 BC - 850 BC)
a. Simpson [2018]: 465, 'The burials range from SMyc to Early Geometric ... '
NOTES
1. Wace and Droop discovered two additional graves of the G located at approximately 39.191570 N, 23.343870 E (F3591) or about 60-70 m SE of the Byzantine church apse (at F3590). See Wace and Droop [1907], p. 309, Fig. 1, points A,B,C.
2. Simpson [2018] 465 says "The site has been proposed for Homeric Thaumakie, but there is no evidence for this identification either from ancient sources or from inscriptions ... "
3. For more see Archaeological Reports (2011-2012) 78-9 here for a précis on more modern work in this area.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Iliad: Homer. Iliad. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924., '2.716', Online here.
2. Simpson [2018]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'Thaumakie (Il. 2. 716)', pg. 465.
Online here.
3. Wace and Droop [1907]: Wace, A.J.B. and J.P. Droop. ‘Excavations at Theotokou, Thessaly’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (13), pp. 309-327, 1906-07., '3. - Tombs of the Geometric Period.', pg. 321.
Online here.
4. Wace and Thompson [1912]: Wace, Alan John Bayard and Maurice Scott Thompson. Prehistoric Thessaly; Being Some Account of Recent Excavations and Explorations in North-Eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the Borders of Macedonia. . Cambridge at the University Press, 1912., 'Theotoku', pg. 209.
Online here.