Site details

Olympia: Pelopeion

PK	C6757
TITLE	Olympia: Pelopeion
WGS84	37.638605° N, 21.629799° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.638605, 21.629799
LON/LAT	21.629799, 37.638605

DMS

37° 38' 18.978" N

21° 37' 47.2764" E

W3W	emitters, hailed, fullest
UTM	34 S, 555565.21, 4165905.23
EGSA87	290721, 4168073

Elevation m	38
Elevation feet	124.7
Region	Elis

GENERAL SITE TYPE House

TYPE

1.    Heroon.   Hadzisteliou Price [1979], 223    'It is most important as the earliest reasonably well attested heroon, ... '
2.    House.   Hadzisteliou Price [1979], 223    'To the North and South of it Dörpfeld found the stone enclosure of a prehistoric house.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Hadzisteliou Price [1979]: 223, 'To the North and South of it Dörpfeld found the stone enclosure of a prehistoric house.'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hadzisteliou Price [1979]: 223, ' ... and a protogeometric one (i.e. a tripod, RHC) a little further, to the west of the later Temple of Zeus.'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hadzisteliou Price [1979]: 223, 'It is most important as the earliest reasonably well attested heroon, and has the characteristic round shape of the Homeric tymbos.'
    b.    Hadzisteliou Price [1979]: 223, 'Dörpfeld's wooden enclosure was perhaps erected in the Geometric period.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bowersock, ed. [1979]: Bowersock, Glen W.. Arktouros; Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday.. de Gruyter, Berlin, N.Y., '',

2. Hadzisteliou Price [1979]: Hadzisteliou Price, T. . ‘Hero Cult in the 'Age of Homer' and Earlier’, In Bowersock, ed. [1979] 219-228, '6. Pelopeion, Olympia.', pg. 223. Online here.