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Hagios Simeonos: G and A Graves

PKC7617
TITLEHagios Simeonos: G and A Graves
WGS84 39.108366° N, 26.556189° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 39.108366, 26.556189
LON/LAT 26.556189, 39.108366

DMS 39° 6' 30.1176" N,26° 33' 22.2804" E

W3Wfoil, power, verges
UTM35 S, 461628.24, 4328895.93
EGSA87 720874, 4331626

Elevation m12
Elevation feet 39.4
RegionNE Aegean
SubregionLesbos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tomb

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Spencer [1995], 279    ' ...; a gold ring, and an 'earlier' fibula.'
2.    Pottery.   Spencer [1995], 279    ' ...; grey ware amphorae, hydriae, a deep grey ware bowl with an incised wavy line pattern on the outside; ... '
3.    Tomb.   Spencer [1995], 279    ' ..., a burial of the Geometric period was found with a later archaic one in 1928 when the belfry of Agios Simeon was being constructed ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995]: 279, ' ..., a burial of the Geometric period was found with a later archaic one ... ', ' ... during Lamb's excavations at Antissa in 1932, the find contexts of which prove that the tomb in Mytilene from which the bowl came was in fact Geometric in date.'

2. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995]: 279, ' ..., a burial of the Geometric period was found with a later archaic one ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Spencer [1995]:  Spencer, Nigel. ‘Early Lesbos between East and West: A 'Grey Area' of Aegean Archaeology’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (90) 269-306. 1995., '', pg. 279. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7617 is at 39.10633° N, 26.5565° E, a straight-line distance of 227.9 m.