Site details

Kallithies: Mesonos

PK	C6689
TITLE	Kallithies: Mesonos
WGS84	36.341063° N, 28.196067° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	36.341063, 28.196067
LON/LAT	28.196067, 36.341063

DMS

36° 20' 27.8268" N

28° 11' 45.8412" E

W3W	fogged, rare, amending
UTM	35 S, 607335, 4022442
EGSA87	876500, 4029671

Elevation m	39
Elevation feet	128
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    settlement.   Georgiadis [2003], 40    ' ..., Hope Simpson and Lazenby (1973: 155 ... ) have probably found surface remains on Mesonos low hill that suggest that there was a Mycenaean settlement.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 155    'Most of the diagnostic sherds were Hellenistic, but one appears to be the base of a L.H. III monochrome Deep Bowl.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 40, ' ... Mycenaean settlement.'

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: , ' ... L.H. III monochrome Deep Bowl.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 40. Online here.

2. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Kallithies: Mesonos', pg. 155. Online here.