Site details
Donoussa: Settlement
| PK | C7292 |
| TITLE | Donoussa: Settlement |
| WGS84 | 37.090615° N, 25.814102° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 37.090615, 25.814102 |
| LON/LAT | 25.814102, 37.090615 |
| DMS | 37° 5' 26.214" N | , | 25° 48' 50.7672" E |
| W3W | scavengers, interiors, linguists |
| UTM | 35 S, 394606.73, 4105582.5 |
| EGSA87 | 661079, 4106176 |
| Elevation m | 10 |
| Elevation feet | 32.8 |
| Region | Cyclades |
| Subregion | Donoussa |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement
TYPE
1. Settlement. Mermoz [2010], 64 ' ... Zaphiropolou a repéré en 1966 un petit habitat géométrique fortifié.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Mermoz [2010]: 64, ' ..., du Xe siècle au début du VIIIe siècle av. J.-C..'
NOTES
1. Mermoz [2010] 65 suggests that this settlement may perhaps have been originally founded as a relay station for ships sailing between Euboea and the East and that it may have been destroyed by pirates; opinions which he attributes to K. Fagerström. See his footnotes 4-6 on that page.
2. For a plan of the settlement see Fig. 4, p. 223 in Olga Kaklamani, 'Early Iron Age Cyclades through the Funerary Evidence' in Regional Stories towards a new Perception of the Early Greek World, Acts of an International Symposium in honour of Professor Jan Bouzek. A. Mazarakis-Ainian, A. Alexandridou, and X. Charalambidou, eds., 2015. University of Thessaly Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-960-9439-42-8. The article is online here.
3. See the notice by Mazarakis-Ainian on the Circe blog here and much the same material on the Aristeia Project page which is here.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Mermoz [2010]: Mermoz, Julien. La vie religieuse des Cyclades de l'HR IIIC à la fin de la période archaïque. Thèse de doctorat en Langues, histoire et civilisations des mondes anciens; Universite Lumiere Lyon 2. 2010, '-I Donoussa : ', pg. 64.
Online here.