Site details

West Foundation

PK	C7768
TITLE	West Foundation
WGS84	37.909662° N, 22.971479° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.909662, 22.971479
LON/LAT	22.971479, 37.909662

DMS

37° 54' 34.7832" N

22° 58' 17.3244" E

W3W	lighter, uncurled, underfunded
UTM	34 S, 673311.17, 4197624.34
EGSA87	409437, 4196003

Elevation m	96
Elevation feet	315
Region	Corinthia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Morgan [1999], 435    'The presence of Mycenaean pottery ... ', ' ... there was an uninventoried goblet rim sherd nearby ... '
2.    Sherds.   Morgan [1999], 70    Catalogue no. 147. 'Rim sherd of a deep bowl ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 435, 'The presence of Mycenaean pottery ... '

2. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 70, Catalogue no. 147, 'Late Helladic IIIB2/C Early.'

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 70, Catalogue no. 147, 'Late Helladic IIIB2/C Early.'

NOTES

1. Location positively identified in Google Earth. See the map in Plan I of Broneer [1973] (inset).

2. For a detailed description of the fourth-century West Foundation itself see Broneer [1973] 117-122.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Broneer [1973]: Broneer, Oscar. Isthmia II; Topography and Architecture. American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Princeton, New Jersey, USA., 'The West Foundation and the Hippodrome', pg. 117.

2. Gebhard and Hemans [1998]: Gebhard, Elizabeth R. and Frederick P. Hemans. ‘University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmis : II’, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (67:1), 1-63, 'Note 40', pg. 15. Online here.

3. 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, '1. The West Foundation', pg. 435.