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Old Orchomenos

PKC709
TITLEOld Orchomenos
WGS84 38.483513° N, 23.033° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.483513, 23.033
LON/LAT 23.033, 38.483513

DMS 38° 29' 0.6468" N,23° 1' 58.8" E

W3Wpremixed, agreement, joyously
UTM34 S, 677322, 4261422
EGSA87 415510, 4259620

Elevation m95
Elevation feet 311.7
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Farinetti [2011 AI4], 19    'The authors suggest the identification of the place with old-Orchomenos, abandoned because it was 'swallowed up' by the lake, as reported by Strabo (IX 2.18 - together with Eleusis and Athenai - and IX 2.42).'
2.    hab.   Knauss [1991], 32    


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI4]: 18, Component O_40

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI4]: 18, Component O_41
    b.    Knauss [1991]: 32,

NOTE

1.  Visible perhaps as light white smearing at this lat/lon pair in Google Earth. See Dr. Farinetti's full discussion of the location of this site loc. cit., pp. 18-19 and fn. 42 on p. 18.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Farinetti [2011 AI4]:  Farinetti, Emeri. Boeotian Landscapes; A GIS-based study ... Appendix I.4; The Copais area: Orchomenos. British Archaeological Reports, no. 2195. 2011., '18. Old Orchomenos: Components O_23, O_38 to O_43', pg. 18. Specifically components O_40, O_41

2.  Knauss [1991]:  Knauss, Jost. Kopais 3: Wasserbau und Geschichte Minysche Epoch-Bayerische Zeit. München, Lehrstuhl für Wasserbau und Wassermengenwirtschaft im Inst. für Bauingenieurwesen IV, 1991., '', pg. 32.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C709 is at 38.62493° N, 23.10625° E, a straight-line distance of 16 km and 985 m.