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Scoglio del Tonno

PKC6361
TITLEScoglio del Tonno
WGS84 40.484423° N, 17.226936° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 40.484423, 17.226936
LON/LAT 17.226936, 40.484423

DMS 40° 29' 3.9228" N,17° 13' 36.9696" E

W3Wordinary, awaited, dates
UTM33 T, 688748, 4483908
EGSA87 -74404, 4503331

Elevation m5
Elevation feet 16.4
RegionItaly
SubregionApulia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Taylour [1958, 2010], 81    ' ..., and, on top, a stratum varying from 0.40 to 0.50 m. in thickness and filled with Mycenean and Protocorinthian sherds.'
2.    Sherds.   Bettelli [2002], 28    'L'ingente numero di frammenti micenei rinvenuti, ... '
3.    Sherds.   Gorgoglione [1982], 62    This is a re-examination of the materials from the Quagliati excavations at the end of the 1800's.
4.    Sherds.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 539    


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 114, 'Mycenaean - phase indeterminable'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 82, 'Mycenaean III A'
    b.    Bettelli [2002]: 28, ' ..., con una datazione che spazia dal TE IIIA al IIIC, ... '
    c.    Gorgoglione [1982]: 62, 'Mic. III A'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 539, 'LHIIIA2: Yes'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 94, 'Mycenaean III B'
    b.    Bettelli [2002]: 28, ' ..., con una datazione che spazia dal TE IIIA al IIIC, ... '
    c.    Gorgoglione [1982]: 64, 'Mic. IIIA-B'
    d.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 539, 'LHIIIB: Yes'

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 105, 'Mycenaean III C'
    b.    Bettelli [2002]: 28, ' ..., con una datazione che spazia dal TE IIIA al IIIC, ... '
    c.    Gorgoglione [1982]: 65, 'Mic. IIIC'

6. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 115, 'Sub-Mycenaean and/or Local Ware'

NOTE

1.  Van Wijngaarden [2002] 539 clearly means Scoglio del Tonno when he says 'Taranto'..

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Bettelli [2002]:  Bettelli, Marco. Italia meridionale e mondo miceneo. Ricerche su dinamiche di acculturazione e aspetti archeologici, con particolare riferimento ai versanti adriatico e ionico della penisola italiana. No. 5 in Grandi Contesti e Problemi della Protostoria italiana. All'Insegna del Giglio, Firenze, Italia. 2002., '53. Scoglio del Tonno', pg. 28. Online here.

2.  Gorgoglione [1982]:  Gorgoglione, Maria Antonietta. ‘Lo Scoglio del Tonno (Taranto); Nuovi restauri’, Vagnetti (ed.) [1982], pp. 62-65, '', pg. 62. Online here.

3.  Taylour [1958, 2010]:  Taylour, Lord William. Mycenaean Pottery in Italy and Adjacent Areas. Cambridge University Press. 1958, 2010., 'IV. Scoglio del Tonno, Taranto', pg. 81.

4.  van Wijngaarden [1999]:  van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''300 Taranto'', pg. 539. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6361 is at 40.4841° N, 17.22943° E, a straight-line distance of 214.5 m.