Site details

Spartochori

PK	C629
TITLE	Spartochori
WGS84	38.65373° N, 20.758121° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	38.65373, 20.758121
LON/LAT	20.758121, 38.65373

DMS

38° 39' 13.428" N

20° 45' 29.2356" E

W3W	dislodging, sobered, detected
UTM	34 S, 478954, 4278380
EGSA87	217733, 4283053

Elevation m	109
Elevation feet	357.6
Region	Ionian Islands
Subregion	Meganisi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Simpson [2018], 355    'On Meganisi, the largest of these islands, the fields south of the main modern settlement of Spartochori were strewn with Bronze Age sherds, ... '
2.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 185     ... strewn with BA sherds ... '
3.    Sherds.   Benton [1931], 232    ' ... there were several fields covered with fragments of Late Bronze Age pithoi, ... '
4.    Sherds.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 19    'S. Benton identified a site which she described as follows: 'several fields covered with fragments of Late Bronze Age pithoi, and among them was an unmistakable kylix foot, part of a neck of a jug, krater bases etc.''

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185, ' ... strewn with BA sherds (including Scratched Ware ... '

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Benton [1931]: 232, ' ..., and among them was an unmistakable Mycenaean kylix foot, ... '
    b.    Simpson [2018]: 355, ' ..., including several Mycenaean ... '

3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 19, ' ... fragments of Late Bronze pithoi, ... '
    b.    Benton [1931]: 232, ' ... fragments of Late Bronze Age pithoi, ... '

4. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 185, ' ... and LH III.'

5. Middle Geometric: (850 BC - 760 BC)
    a.    Simpson [2018]: 355, ' ... and MG, ... '

NOTE

1. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999] 19 remarks that 'The site was not precisely recorded, neither was any of the pottery preserved.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Benton [1931]: Benton, Sylvia. ‘The Ionian Islands’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (32), pp. 213-246, 1931/32., '5. Meganisi', pg. 230. Online here.

2. Simpson [2018]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'The Echinai (Il. 2. 625-626)', pg. 355. Online here.

3. 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., 'E 13 Meganisi: Spartochori', pg. 185. Online here.

4. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina. The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 3000-800 B.C.. Liverpool University Press. 1999. , 'Spartochori (14)', pg. 19. Online here.