Site details

Petasi

PK	C6793
TITLE	Petasi
WGS84	37.025705° N, 25.562999° E
Accuracy	500 m.

LAT/LON	37.025705, 25.562999
LON/LAT	25.562999, 37.025705

DMS

37° 1' 32.538" N

25° 33' 46.7964" E

W3W	pockets, overstuffed, regimented
UTM	35 S, 372180.64, 4098689.24
EGSA87	638879, 4098578

Elevation m	98
Elevation feet	321.5
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Naxos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 332    ' ...., is probably the source of the fine spiral-decorated footed stone pyxis in the National Museum, and certainly of ... sherds in the Naxos Museum.'
2.    Sherds.   Renfrew [2011], 519    'Some sherds in the Apeiranthos Museum ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Keros-Syros: (2600 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 332, 'KS Phyl I or MB'

2. Phylakopi I: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 332, 'KS Phyl I or MB'
    b.    Renfrew [2011]: 519, ' ... are of Phylakopi I or Middle Cycladic date.'

3. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 332, 'KS Phyl I or MB'

4. Middle Cycladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Renfrew [2011]: 519, ' ... are of Phylakopi I or Middle Cycladic date.'

NOTES

1.  Renfrew and Cherry [2011] 519: "An unpublished letter of Duncan MacKenzie refers to a rectangular footed pyxis of stone with relief spirals from this place, very probably the one now in the National Museum in Athens (NM 5358; Zervos 1957, fig. 30)."

2.  Page numbers in Renfrew [2011] are, in actuality, location numbers in the electronic edition, ISBN 978-1-78570-773-5.

3.  The position of Petasi is given by Simpson and Dickinson [1979] 332 as: 'This region, c. 1 km. NW of Kanaki, ... ' This is where I have placed it although Doumas [1977] 13, Fig. 2, no. 18 shows it about 1200 m. to the SW. Wong [2020] Fig. 1 has it about 1500 m. further W.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Doumas [1977]: Doumas,Christos. Early Bronze Age Burial Habits in the Cyclades. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 48, Paul Astroms Forlag, Johannesbergsgatan 24, Goteborg, Sweden. 1977., '',

2. Renfrew [2011]: Renfrew, Colin. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millenium BC. Oxbow Books. Second ed., 2011 (First edition 1972), '32. Petasi', pg. 519. Online here.

3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Petasi', pg. 332. Online here.

4. Wong [2020]: Wong, Todd. esri Canada | Centres of Excellence, '', Online here.