Site details

Galinoporni

PK	C6779
TITLE	Galinoporni
WGS84	35.518977° N, 34.309588° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.518977, 34.309588
LON/LAT	34.309588, 35.518977

DMS

35° 31' 8.3172" N

34° 18' 34.5168" E

W3W	springs, convoy, hyping
UTM	36 S, 618746.04, 3931386.61
EGSA87	1436282, 3979565

Elevation m	126
Elevation feet	413.4
Region	Cyprus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Acropolis.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 26    ' ... the 'acropolis' on the hilltop ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Hadjisavvas et al. [2017], 5    ' ... uncovered a hoard of bronzes ... '
3.    Artifacts.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 7    Bartelheim et al. [2008] give detailed descriptions and illustrations of each piece of the bronze hoard on pp. 7-16.
4.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 196    'Reports of isolated Mycenaean pictorial vessels have also come from sites such as Galinoporni ... '
5.    Pottery.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 26    ' ... huge number of pithos fragments, ... '
6.    Settlement.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 26    ' ... strong evidence for the importance of the settlement and its connection to elites with far reaching contacts.', 'Surveys on the hill revealed a large settlement area, ... '
7.    Sherds.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 17    ' ... concentrations of sherds ... '
8.    Wall.   Bartelheim et al. [2008], 26    'The walls, visible on the surface, are up to 80 cm wide.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 196, ' ... isolated Mycenaean pictorial vessels ... '

2. Late Cycladic IIB: (1550 BC - 1480 BC)
    a.    Bartelheim et al. [2008]: 25, ' ... the stirrup jar which was found buried immediately next to the hoard pithos, has best parallels from Cyprus in the form of three jars, identical in shape and decoration, from the Swedish burial 18 in Enkomi, dated to LC II B-C ... '

3. Late Cycladic IIC: (1480 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Bartelheim et al. [2008]: 25, ... the Kral Tepesi/Vasili Hoard can be dated to any time within the span of the 13th to 12th centuries (LC II C - III A).

4. Late Cycladic IIIA: (1420 BC - 1350 BC)
    a.    Bartelheim et al. [2008]: 25, ... the Kral Tepesi/Vasili Hoard can be dated to any time within the span of the 13th to 12th centuries (LC II C - III A).

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 323, 'IIIA2'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 323, 'IIIB'

NOTES

1. The locaion is described in Bartelheim et al. [2008] 16 and see Figs. 14 a and b on p. 18.

2. Bartelheim et al. [2008] 28 "Because of the excellent quality of the bronzes and the extremely favourable geographical situation it seems probable that a major economic centre of Cypriot Bronze Age, of considerable importance for the sea trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, once existed here."

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bartelheim et al. [2008]: Bartelheim, Martin with Bülent Kizilduman, Uwe Müller, Ernst Pernicka and Hasan Tekel. ‘The Late Bronze Age Hoard of Kaleburnu/Galinoporni on Cyprus’, Pamatky Archeologicke (99/XCIX), pp. 5-33, '4. The Site', pg. 16. Online here.

2. Hadjisavvas et al. [2017]: Hadjisavvas, Sophocles with Priscilla Keswani and Ariane Jacobs. Alassa; Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984-2000.. Lefkosia, Cyprus, 'Alassa in its Regional Settlements Context', pg. 5. Online here.

3. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., '', pg. 196. Online here.