Site details

Palatia: Sherds

PK	C5959
TITLE	Palatia: Sherds
WGS84	35.883391° N, 27.232311° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.883391, 27.232311
LON/LAT	27.232311, 35.883391

DMS

35° 53' 0.2076" N

27° 13' 56.3196" E

W3W	sounded, withholding, family
UTM	35 S, 520968, 3971040
EGSA87	791650, 3975554

Elevation m	86
Elevation feet	282.2
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Saros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 358    ' ... bronze dagger blade of LH type, a bronze chisel, a flat celt, and a small black stone axe.'
2.    Lithics.   Simpson [1981], 358    ' ... a flat celt, and a small black stone axe.'
3.    Sherds.   Melas [1985], 45    'A few fragments apparently of Minoan cups were noted on the steep and narrow terraces overhanging the harbour some four hundred metres south-west of the beach.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 45, 'A few fragments apparently of Minoan cups ...'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 358, ' ... dagger blade of LH type, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'K57. Palatia', pg. 45.

2. 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., 'Ta Palatia etc.', pg. 358. Online here.