Site details

Kalpaki/Orchomenos

PK	C527
TITLE	Kalpaki∕Orchomenos
WGS84	37.726097° N, 22.314138° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.726097, 22.314138
LON/LAT	22.314138, 37.726097

DMS

37° 43' 33.9492" N

22° 18' 50.8968" E

W3W	police, obeys, elbow
UTM	34 S, 615808, 4176238
EGSA87	351282, 4176475

Elevation m	921
Elevation feet	3021.7
Region	Arcadia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Blum and Plassart [1914], 81
2.    Artifacts.   Syriopoulos [1995], 1104
3.    hab.   AD[1982], 113
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 81    'Some Matt-painted sherds and a LH kylix foot are recorded, but C and H predominate, ...'
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 87    'The evidence for Mycenaean presence here is thus reduced to a solitary fragment from the foot of a Mycenaean kylix, found near the summit of the hill in 1958.'
6.    Sherds.   Howell [1970], 82    'Hope Simpson found the fragment of a foot of a L.H. IIIB kylix near the summit of the hill; ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 81, '...and a LH kylix foot are recorded,...'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 87, MH LH III(A-B) G A C H

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 87, MH LH III(A-B) G A C H
    b.    Howell [1970]: 83, 'Hope Simpson found the fragment of a foot of a L.H. IIIB kylix near the summit of the hill; I could find no prehistoric material on the site.'
    c.    Blum and Plassart [1914]: 81,
    d.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1104,
    e.    AD[1982]: 113,

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Blum and Plassart [1914]: 81,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AD[1982]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 37, '', pg. 113.

2. Blum and Plassart [1914]: Blum, G. and A. Plassart. ‘Orchomène d'Arcadie. Fouilles de 1913. Topographie,architecture, sculpture, menus objets’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, vol. 38, pp. 71-88., 'II. Ville basse.', pg. 81. Online here.

3. Howell [1970]: Howell, R.. ‘A Survey of Eastern Arcadia in Prehistory’, The Annual of the British School at Athens. 65. November, 1970. 79-127., '5. Orchomenos', pg. 82. Online here.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'D 12 Ancient Orchomenos', pg. 87. Online here.

5. 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., 'B 23 Ancient Orchomenos', pg. 81. Online here.

6. Syriopoulos [1995]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Γενικος Συνοπτικος Καταλογος Των Περιεχομενων και των Δυο Τομων: Δευτερος Τομος. Athens: Athens Archaeological Society. 1995., '255. Orchomenos', pg. 1104.