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Stena: Mavrovouni

PKC7314
TITLEStena: Mavrovouni
WGS84 36.742623° N, 22.567769° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 36.742623, 22.567769
LON/LAT 22.567769, 36.742623

DMS 36° 44' 33.4428" N,22° 34' 3.9684" E

W3Wdelivering, unfold, synopses
UTM34 S, 639967.69, 4067467.05
EGSA87 371984, 4066989

Elevation m49
Elevation feet 160.8
RegionLaconia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Laconia II, 115    ' ..., together with part of an iron weapon (probably a spear), ... '
2.    Pottery.   Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015],     ' ..., two vases were found, ... '
3.    Pottery.   Laconia II, 115    ' ..., two vases were found ..., '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , ' ..., which appear to be late PG, ... '
    b.    Laconia II: 115, ' ...., which appear to be late Protogeometric, ... '

NOTE

1.  It is simple to identify the toponym Stena ('Narrows') with the shallow pass at 36.742457° N, 22.567867° E.  After that no directions seem to help.  In Laconia II Waterhouse and Simpson [1961] 115, note 9, provide directions which cannot, sixty years later, be associated with any recognizable places aside from Gytheio itself.   The Aristeia Project suggests that 'The vases, an hydria and an amphora were found slightly E of the "pass".'  They have derived this assertion from the footnote to Waterhouse and Simpson [1961] which I gave above.  Nonetheless that is where I have put the marker.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]:  Mazarakis Ainian, Alexander . Η Κοινωνική Αρχαιολογία του Ελληνικού Κόσμου κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου και την Πρώιμη Αρχαϊκή περίοδο (The Aristeia Project: The Social Archeology of the Greek World during the Early Iron Age and the Early Archaic period), 'Marovouni, Stena', Online here.

2.  Laconia II:  Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'Mavrovouni', pg. 114. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7314 is at 36.74717° N, 22.57408° E, a straight-line distance of 756.9 m.