Site details

Psakhna: Bairam Aga

PK	C7048
TITLE	Psakhna: Bairam Aga
WGS84	38.544899° N, 23.643462° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	38.544899, 23.643462
LON/LAT	23.643462, 38.544899

DMS

38° 32' 41.6364" N

23° 38' 36.4632" E

W3W	tolerance, mobster, founding
UTM	34 S, 730379.55, 4269588.45
EGSA87	468781, 4266049

Elevation m	9
Elevation feet	29.5
Region	Euboea

GENERAL SITE TYPE Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Phialon [2011], 128    'Seul le dernier site comporte également des vestiges architecturaux HM.'
2.    Pottery.   Phialon [2011], 128    ' ..., ont aussi livré de la céramique HM.'
3.    Sherds.   Sackett et al. [1966], 56    'At a distance of c. 200 m. on the south slope of the southern ridge, near Bairam Aga ..., are Classical and Hellenistic sherds.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Phialon [2011]: 128, ' ... des vestiges architecturaux HM.'

2. Classical: (480 BC - 323 BC)
    a.    Sackett et al. [1966]: 56, ' ... Classical and Hellenistic sherds.'

NOTES

1. This place name transliterated by Sackett as 'Bairam Aga' (from Μπaϊρàμ Άγã) but by Phialon as 'Bariam Aga'.

2. See the valuable sketch map in Sackett et al. [1966] 55, Fig. 8 as well as the photograph of the area in Plate 12..

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Phialon [2011]: Phialon, Laetitia. L'Émergence de la Civilisation Mycénienne en Grèce Centrale. Peeters, Leuven - Liege. Belgium. 2011., 'I.3.1.13. La plaine de Psachna', pg. 128.

2. Sackett et al. [1966]: Sackett, L.H., and V. Hankey, R.J. Howell, T.W. Jacobsen, M.R. Popham. ‘Prehistoric Euboea: Contributions toward a Survey’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 61, pp. 33-112, [1966], '32. Psakhna: Varka', pg. 54. Online here.