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Stiri: Hab

PKC939
TITLEStiri: Hab
WGS84 37.772549° N, 23.162341° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.772549, 23.162341
LON/LAT 23.162341, 37.772549

DMS 37° 46' 21.1764" N,23° 9' 44.4276" E

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UTM34 S, 690444.02, 4182781.17
EGSA87 426079, 4180622

Elevation m213
Elevation feet 698.8
RegionCorinthia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   BCH Online, 1887    ' '
2.    Settlement.   Tartaron et al. [2011], 615    '...a ... major Mycenaean settlement ...' See the map of Stiri on p. 616.
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 38    'Gebauer reported Early Helladic sherds from the vicinity of the chapel of Panayia, overlooking the sea, ... '
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 66    'EH sherds were found near the chapel of Panayia ... '


SITE SIZE

- Tartaron et al. [2011]  p. 616,  Size: 14000 sq. m.  '..a maximum extent of ca. 1.4 ha, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 38, 'Gebauer reported Early Helladic sherds from the vicinity of the chapel of Panayia, ... '
    b.    Tartaron et al. [2011]: 617, 'Stiri was also the site of a major Early Bronze Age occupation.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 66, 'EH sherds ... '

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Tartaron et al. [2011]: 618, '...with a clear apogee of activity in the EH II period.'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    BCH Online: 1887, ' ... Mycenaean terrace walls ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Tartaron et al. [2011]: 617, '... all precisely datable pottery falls within the LH IIIB period, without a single sherd of earlier Mycenaean material.'

NOTES

1.  See also BCH Online, no. 1887 for an overview and good maps of Stiri and Kalamianos (C922).

2.  For more information about the Panayia (The Virgin of Stiri) church at F5485 see this.

3.  For more information about this church see this: http://solygeia.blogspot.com/2011/09/11.html

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  BCH Online:  Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'SARONIC HARBOURS ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT - 2010', no. 1887. Online here. Online here.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 78B Korphos: Panayia and Profitis Ilias', pg. 38. 'Gebauer reported Early Helladic sherds from the vicinity of the chapel of Panayia, overlooking the sea, and about 3.5 km. east-northeast of Korphos.'
Online here.

3.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'A 64 Korphos: Panayia', pg. 65. Online here.

4.  Tartaron et al. [2011]:  Tartaron, Thomas F., Daniel J. Pullen, Richard K. Dunn, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Amy Dill, Joseph I. Boyce. ‘The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP); Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos, 2007-2009’, Hesperia 80 (2011), 559-634, ''The Bronze Age Settlements at Stiri'', pg. 615. And see the useful map on p. 605.
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C939 is at 37.76992° N, 23.16548° E, a straight-line distance of 402.3 m.