Site details

Mycenaean Wall: Section Pa

PK	C7762
TITLE	Mycenaean Wall: Section Pa
WGS84	37.908077° N, 22.988464° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	37.908077, 22.988464
LON/LAT	22.988464, 37.908077

DMS

37° 54' 29.0772" N

22° 59' 18.4704" E

W3W	fussily, city, recipient
UTM	34 S, 674808.21, 4197480.17
EGSA87	410929, 4195811

Elevation m	107
Elevation feet	351
Region	Corinthia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Wall

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Morgan [1999], 444    ' ... produced one possible LH II sherd.'
2.    Wall.   Broneer [1966], 352    'A little below the head of the gully the wall turned at right angles toward the northwest across the stream ... ', ' ..., the outer face has been exposed for a length of 10 m. ... '
3.    Wall.   Morgan [1999], 444    ' ..., where the putative line of the "wall" crosses a streambed about one hundred yards from the end of the southeast valley ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 444, ' ... produced one possible LH II sherd.'

NOTE

1. See the important discussion of this wall, its construction method, and purposes which appears in Simpson and Hagel [2006] 124-140.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Broneer [1966]: Broneer, Oscar. ‘The Cyclopean Wall on the Isthmus of Corinth and Its Bearing on Late Bronze Age Chronology’, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (35:4), pp. 346-352, 'Beyond the point where it crosses the small streambed ... ', pg. 352. Online here.

2. Morgan [1999]: Morgan, Catherine. Isthmia VIII; The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary . The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey, '11. Section Pa (Papatheodorou Property)', pg. 444.