Site details

Phyropotamos

PK	C7000
TITLE	Phyropotamos
WGS84	36.757103° N, 24.426972° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.757103, 24.426972
LON/LAT	24.426972, 36.757103

DMS

36° 45' 25.5708" N

24° 25' 37.0992" E

W3W	presenter, nestled, powder
UTM	35 S, 270313.82, 4071015.05
EGSA87	537962, 4067724

Elevation m	26
Elevation feet	85.3
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Melos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 315    'Objects of likely KS type from a site c. 1.5 km. N of Plaka ... '
2.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 315    ' ... are presumably from graves.'
3.    Cem.   Cherry [1982], 293    'CEM?'
4.    Pottery.   Cherry [1982], 293    'Findspot of a jar stamped with concentric circles, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Cherry [1982]: 293, ' ..., possibly related to the Keros - Syros culture; ... '

2. Keros-Syros: (2600 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Cherry [1982]: 293, ' ..., possibly related to the Keros - Syros culture; although likely to be from a tomb context, ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 315, 'KS?', 'Objects of likely KS type ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Cherry [1982]: Cherry, John F.. ‘Appendix A: Register of Archaeological Sites on Melos’, In Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982] 291 - 309, '2. Phyropotamos M915057', pg. 293.

2. Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982]: Renfrew, Colin and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds.). An Island Polity; The archaeology of exploitation in Melos. Cambridge University Press. 1982., '',

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., 'Phiropotamos', pg. 315. Online here.