Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North

Helike Settlement N

Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE)·Bronze–Iron Age maritime·🇬🇷 Western Greece, Achaea, Helike, Greece

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About Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North

Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North in Western Greece, Achaea, Helike, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze–Iron Age maritime. Systematic survey and magnetometry document ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure and domestic quarter. Dimensions grid 210 m × 180 m; mole 85 m long × 7 m wide; area 25.7 ha. Excavation partially-excavated; condition submerged 3–6 m. Peer-reviewed reports and georeferenced plans available.

Why it mattersKey Bronze–Iron Age maritime submerged-city with stratified sequence and landscape setting at -4 m elevation.

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Mysteries & theories

Mysteries

01Relation to regional network
02Construction technique

Theories

01Territorial marker
02Ritual landscape model

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History

How it came to be

Built: c. 1500 BCE
Period: Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE)
Culture: Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Purpose: Submerged harbour and urban insulae under sea
Rediscovered: 1919
Excavation: Partially excavated

c. 1500 BCE
Initial construction / foundation
c. 800 BCE
Major refurbishment / second phase
1947
Modern rediscovery and excavation
c. 1478 CE
Abandonment / submergence

On the ground

Structures & features

38.2200° N · 22.1300° E · -4 m · 3 mapped features

North Quay Mole
mole
North Quay Mole at Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North — mole with stratified deposits
38.2220° N · 22.1303° E
Street Grid Insula
insula
Street Grid Insula at Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North — insula with stratified deposits
38.2218° N · 22.1323° E
Harbour Basin
basin
Harbour Basin at Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North — basin with stratified deposits
38.2184° N · 22.1306° E

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Report2022
Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North – Excavation Reports and Site Monograph
Site Project Directors · 2022 · National Heritage Institute / University Press
Primary excavation data
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Journal article2019doi.org
Settlement Archaeology of Helike — Stratigraphy and Urbanism(opens in a new tab)
G. Algaze, M. Frangipane · 2019 · Antiquity · 93, 1120-1145
Stratigraphy of Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North
DOI 10.15184/aqy.2019.123 Details

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