Site details

Gla

PK	C729
TITLE	Gla
WGS84	38.485106° N, 23.181918° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.485106, 23.181918
LON/LAT	23.181918, 38.485106

DMS

38° 29' 6.3816" N

23° 10' 54.9048" E

W3W	straddles, glazed, loiter
UTM	34 S, 690308.26, 4261896.4
EGSA87	428501, 4259670

Elevation m	114
Elevation feet	374
Region	Boeotia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Fort.   Simpson [1981], 62    'The fortress of Gla ... '
2.    Fort.   Mee and Spawforth [2001], 324    'Gla is one of the largest and most impressive of the Mycenaean citadels ... '
3.    Fort.   Simpson and Hagel [2006], 78    ' ... a fortified depot for the warehousing of agricultural produce, principally cereal grain. It was clearly also the centre of the network of fortresses in northeast Kopais, ... '
4.    Fort.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 239    'The fortress of Gla occupies an extensive rock outcrop which has the appearance of a low island...'
5.    hab.   Farinetti [2011 AI6], 16    '? activity focus'
6.    hab.   PAE[1979],
7.    Settlement.   Farinetti [2011 AI6], 16    'settlement'
8.    Settlement.   Ålin [1962], 122    'Besiedlung in MH und SH Zeit wurde festgestellt.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 239,  Size: 235000 sq. m.  '...whose area is estimated as c. 235,000 square metres.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI6]: 16, ?activity focus, component NC_71
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 62, 'MH LH IIIA2-B '
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 239, 'MH LH IIIA2-B C or H'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI6]: 16, settlement, components NC_71
    b.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 324, 'Around 1300 BC they fortified the whole of the limestone outcrop, ...' 'They' in this instance are the Mycenaeans.

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Ålin [1962]: 122, 'Die Ausgrabungen bei den 4 Toren haben gezeigt, dass diese in SH III erbaut worden sind.'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    PAE[1979]: ,

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 62, 'MH LH IIIA2-B '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 239, 'MH LH IIIA2-B C or H'
    c.    Simpson and Hagel [2006]: 77, 'N MH LH IIIA2-B2 H M'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 62, 'MH LH IIIA2-B '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 239, 'MH LH IIIA2-B C or H'
    c.    PAE[1979]: ,
    d.    Ålin [1962]: 123, Various examples of pottery ' ..., die alle in IIIB zu datieren sind, ... ', 'Auch Schachermeyr konnte an verschiedenen Stellen IIIB Scherben feststellen, ... '
    e.    Simpson and Hagel [2006]: 78, 'Gla is now known to have been occupied from the beginning of the LH III period ... '

7. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Hagel [2006]: 77, 'N MH LH IIIA2-B2 H M'

NOTES

1. Additional bibliography on Gla:

De Ridder, A. 'Fouilles d'Orchomène'. BCH (19) 1895, pp. 137-224 which is online here.
Fossey, John M., Topography and Population of Ancient Boeotia, 1988, p. 288
Iakovidis, S.E., Gla and the Kopais in the 13th century B.C., The Archaeological Society at Athens, Athens. 2003.
The Gla project website from Dickinson College is here.

2. Gla is being investigated in recent years by the AROURA project, University of Maryland. The project splash page is here. For a bibliography see this.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. PAE[1979]: Praktika tes en Athenais Arkhaiologikes Hetaireias. 1979., '',

2. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Arne (Gla).', pg. 122.

3. Farinetti [2011 AI6]: Farinetti, Emeri. Boeotian Landscapes; A GIS-based study ... Appendix I.6; The Copais area: Copai and the North-East bay. British Archaeological Reports, no. 2195. 2011., '26. Gla: Components NC_70 to NC_74', pg. 15. Specifically components NC_71 and NC_72

4. Mee and Spawforth [2001]: Mee, Christopher and Antony Spawforth. Greece; An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street. Oxford. 2001. , 'Gla', pg. 323.

5. Simpson and Hagel [2006]: Simpson, R. Hope and D.K. Hagel. Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals. SIMA vol. 133. Paul Åströms Förlag. Sävedalen, Sweden. 2006., 'Gla', pg. 77.

6. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'C 7 Gla', pg. 62. Online here.

7. 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., 'G 9 Gla', pg. 239. Online here.