Site details

Marmari

PK	C7054
TITLE	Marmari
WGS84	38.049751° N, 24.321586° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	38.049751, 24.321586
LON/LAT	24.321586, 38.049751

DMS

38° 2' 59.1036" N

24° 19' 17.7096" E

W3W	escapism, utter, beholds
UTM	35 S, 264980.6, 4214722.15
EGSA87	528067, 4211096

Elevation m	18
Elevation feet	59.1
Region	Euboea

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Fachard [2012], 337    ' ... port, temple, habitat.'
2.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 234    'EH sherds and obsidian were reported, ... '
3.    Lithics.   Sackett et al. [1966], 80    'We have been able to verify only the existence of obsidian (on a knoll west of the village).'
4.    Lithics.   Sackett et al. [1966], 80    'Theochares reports obsidian ...'
5.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 234    'EH sherds and obsidian were reported, ... '
6.    Sherds.   Sackett et al. [1966], 80    'Theochares reports obsidian and E.H. sherds.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Fachard [2012]: 337, 'P, C-H, ... '

2. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 234, 'EH sherds ... '
    b.    Sackett et al. [1966]: 80, 'Theochares reports obsidian and E.H. sherds.'

NOTES

1. I have qualified the location for these scrappy finds as 'unknown' because no find spots are given in the literature to which I have had access.

2. Sackett's reference to Theochares is AEM vi (1959) 279-328, esp. p. 310.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Fachard [2012]: Fachard, Sylvian. La Défense du Territoire; Étude de la Chora Érétrienne et de ses Fortifications, École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce. InFolio Editions, CH-Gollion. 2012, '183. Marmari', pg. 337. Online here.

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], '90. Marmari ... ', pg. 80. 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., 'F 100 Marmari', pg. 234. Online here.