User:Nefasdicere/Sandbox

{{{name}}} ({{{name_local}}})
Location
Country	{{{country}}}
Region	{{{region}}}
Elevation	{{{elevation}}} m
Controlling City	{{{controlling_city}}}
Peak Period	{{{peak_period}}}
Date	{{{date}}}

This template is designed to provide the exact coordinates and essential data for archaeological sites. The “skyline” image should be letterbox format for optimal aesthetic effect. An example of its usage is Lycosura.

Usage

{{ Archaeological site
 |name = Standard English name or Ancient name translitterated
 |name_local = Name in the local modern dialect
 |image_skyline = 
 |caption_skyline = 
 |country = e.g. Greece, Italy, etc
 |region = e.g. Arcadia, Latium, Attica, etc
 |elevation = XXX in meters
 |controlling_city = note 1
 |peak_period = note 2
 |date = note 3
 |lat_deg = XX
 |lat_min = XX
 |lat_sec = XX.XX
 |lat_hem = N or S
 |lon_deg = XX
 |lon_min = XX
 |lon_sec = XX.XX
 |lon_hem = E or W }}

Note 1

This is the city that controlled the site in antiquity: e.g. Brauron in eastern Attica was controlled by Athens, Eleusis was controlled by Athens, etc.. If the site was a city, simple leave this blank.

Note 2

This is the period of greatest activity at the site in terms of construction and usage (ritual, domestic, etc). Examples of periods for most of Greece are very roughly:

• Sub-Mycenean - 1200 to 1100 BCE
• Dark Age - 1100 to 900 BCE
• Geometric - 900 to 700 BCE
• Orientalizing - 7th century BCE
• Archaic - 6th century BCE to 480 BCE
• Classical - 480 to 323 BCE
• Hellenistic - 323 to 30 BCE
• Early Roman - 146 to 27 BCE
• Roman Imperial - 27 BCE to 313 CE
• Late Roman - 313 to 395 CE
• Byzantine - 395 to 1453 CE

The problem is that each site goes through such periods at different hard dates. The purpose of this line is to give an idea of the peak of a sites development in cultural terms rather than an exact historical date.