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Megaron

PKC6668
TITLEMegaron
WGS84 37.730044° N, 22.756829° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.730044, 22.756829
LON/LAT 22.756829, 37.730044

DMS 37° 43' 48.1584" N,22° 45' 24.5844" E

W3Waffords, stutters, cautiously
UTM34 S, 654815, 4177316
EGSA87 390303, 4176303

Elevation m243
Elevation feet 797.2
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   French [2013], 85    'At least two building stages were identified before the building was destroyed by a devastating fire.'
2.    Building.   Iakovidis et al. [2003], 16    'This structure ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    French [2013]: 85, 'These various buildings were built in apparent succession from the end of the fourteenth century BC to the middle of the thirteenth, all it would seem before the construction of the fortification wall.'

2. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    French [2013]: 85, 'These various buildings were built in apparent succession from the end of the fourteenth century BC to the middle of the thirteenth, all it would seem before the construction of the fortification wall.'

3. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    French [2013]: 85, 'At least two building stages were identified before the building was destroyed by a devastating fire.'

NOTE

1.  Cf. the plan in French [2013] 84, fig. 33 as well as the rawer data in the map of Iakovidis et al. [2003] Mycenae Citadel, no. 3. For a good aerial photograph of the Cult Center see Mylonas [1981] 46, Fig. 29.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  French [2013]:  French, Elizabeth. Mycenae; Agamemnon’s Capital. The History Press, Gloucester, UK. 2002, reprinted 2013., 'The Megaron ... ', pg. 85.

2.  Iakovidis et al. [2003]:  Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'The Megaron', pg. 16.

3.  Mylonas [1993]:  Mylonas, George E.. Mycenae; A Guide to its Ruins and its History. Ekdotike Athenon S.A., Athens 1993., '',

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6668 is at 37.59085° N, 22.77148° E, a straight-line distance of 15 km and 549 m.