Site details

Aghios Adrianos: Cave

PK	C5295
TITLE	Aghios Adrianos: Cave
WGS84	37.598416° N, 22.816007° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.598416, 22.816007
LON/LAT	22.816007, 37.598416

DMS

37° 35' 54.2976" N

22° 48' 57.6252" E

W3W	basketball, conferences, scaled
UTM	34 S, 660313, 4162810
EGSA87	395333, 4161631

Elevation m	188
Elevation feet	616.8
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cult

TYPE

1.    cult.   Marakas [2010],     'The summit of the Profitis Elias hill has evidence of a large building belonging to the LH III B period, ...'
2.    cult.   Shelmerdine [1997], 576    'Two more open-air places of the palatial period are known, both in the vicinity of Tiryns. ... the other is a cave on Profitis Elias near Ayios Adrianos.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Marakas [2010]: , '...large building belonging to the LH III B period, ...'
    b.    Shelmerdine [1997]: 576, 'The Profitis Elias cave lies near a LH IIIB building on the hilltop.'

NOTE

1. The best source, unavailable to me at time of writing, is Klaus Kilian, 'Patterns in the cult activity in the Mycenaean Argolid: Haghia Triada (Klenies), the Prophitis Elias Cave (Haghios Hadrianos) and the citadel of Tiryns' in Hägg, R. & Nordquist, G.C. (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid. Stockholm. 185-197

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Marakas [2010]: Marakas, Gemma. Ritual Practice Between the Late Bronze Age and Protogeometric Periods of Greece. BAR International Series 2145, 2010., '3.25. Profitis Elias Cave',

2. Shelmerdine [1997]: Shelmerdine, Cynthia W.. ‘Review of Aegean Prehistory VI: The Palatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland’, American Journal of Archaeology (101:3), 537-585, 1997., '', pg. 576. Online here.