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Zeli: Aghios Georgios

PK	C5156
TITLE	Zeli: Aghios Georgios
WGS84	38.648588° N, 22.881386° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.648588, 22.881386
LON/LAT	22.881386, 38.648588

DMS

38° 38' 54.9168" N

22° 52' 52.9896" E

W3W	pretended, preliminary, bubblegum
UTM	34 S, 663721.82, 4279460.31
EGSA87	402509, 4278087

Elevation m	375
Elevation feet	1230.3
Region	Phocis

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013], 11    ' ..., a Late Bronze Age necropolis from LH II to the LH III C period was excavated ... '
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Kramer-Hajos [2008], 62    'Site type: Chamber tombs, ...', 'Between 1977 and 1985 the Greek Archaeological Service excvated here 29 chamber tombs, constituting an extensive Mycenaean cemetery.'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013],     'Twenty-nine chamber tombs have been documented with evidence of reuse during Proto-Geometric and ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013]: 11, ' ..., a Late Bronze Age necropolis from LH II to the LH III C period was excavated ... '

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013]: 11, ' ..., a Late Bronze Age necropolis from LH II to the LH III C period was excavated ... '

3. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Kramer-Hajos [2008]: 62, 'The tombs date from LH IIB ...'

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Kramer-Hajos [2008]: 62, 'The tombs date from LH IIB to IIIA2, ...'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Kramer-Hajos [2008]: 62, '...sherds from the fill of looted chambers belong to LH IIIB and IIIB-C as well.' And see fn 23: 'Two psi-figurines from tomb IV ... date this tomb to LH IIIB.'

6. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Kramer-Hajos [2008]: 62, '...sherds from the fill of looted chambers belong to LH IIIB and IIIB-C as well.'
    b.    Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013]: 11, ' ..., a Late Bronze Age necropolis from LH II to the LH III C period was excavated ... '

7. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013]: 11, ' ... reuse during Proto-Geometric and ... '

NOTE

1. Kramer-Hajos [2008] 62 says "Here (at the church, RHC) and on the other side of the road, west of the church, some 30 chamber tombs ..." I have placed the marker based on this statement.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Pascual and Papakonstantinou [2013]: Pascual, Jose and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou. ‘The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Fourteenth Ephorate Epicnemidian Locris Project FINAL REPORT’, Teiresias (43:1) pp. 1-14, '27. Zeli', pg. 11. Online here.

2. Kramer-Hajos [2008]: Kramer-Hajos, Margaretha. Beyond the Palace: Mycenaean East Lokris. BAR International Series. No. 1781. 2008., 'Zeli-Agios Georgios', pg. 62.