Site details

Pylaia/Kapoudjilar Toumba

PK	C7035
TITLE	Pylaia∕Kapoudjilar Toumba
WGS84	40.597919° N, 23.017912° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.597919, 23.017912
LON/LAT	23.017912, 40.597919

DMS

40° 35' 52.5084" N

23° 1' 4.4832" E

W3W	subject, mess, snap
UTM	34 T, 670742.08, 4496080.86
EGSA87	416755, 4494301

Elevation m	155
Elevation feet	508.5
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Mound

TYPE

1.    Mound.   French [1967], 31    'Topography: mound, ... '
2.    Mound.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 98    'L. Rey reported an excavation ... in 1916 on a toumba southeast of Thessaloniki, ... '
3.    Mound.   Rey [1917-19], 91    1. - Kapoudjilar Toumba
4.    Sherds.   French [1967], 65    'LB - Brown b: 2-6'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 98, 'Evidence of ... Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age occupation was found, ... '

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 98, 'Evidence of ... Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age occupation was found, ... '

3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 98, 'Evidence of ... Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age occupation was found, ... ', ' ... bricks from the Late Bronze Age stratum ... '
    b.    French [1967]: 65, 'LB - Brown b: 2-6'

4. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)
    a.    French [1967]: 31, '?IA - 16'

NOTE

1. The Mycenaean Atlas Project would like to thank Dr. Stratos Nanoglou of the University of Thessalonika for making available a copy of French [1967] which would have been otherwise difficult to obtain.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. French [1967]: French, D.H.. Index of Prehistoric Sites in Central Macedonia and Catalogue of Sherd Material in The University of Thessaloniki. Athens, 'Pylaia (Kapoutzides) S 3', pg. 31.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Pylaia (Thessaloniki)', pg. 98.

3. Rey [1917-19]: Rey, Léon. ‘VI. - Plaine de Salonique’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (41-43) 91-112. 1917., '1. - Kapoudjilar Toumba.', pg. 91. Online here.