[home]PRAP: Chronological Abbreviations
The period abbreviations used by PRAP follow those of the Journal of Hellenic Studies Archaeological Reports.
| A | Archaic |
| BA | Bronze Age |
| Byz | Byzantine |
| C | Classical |
| Ch | Christian |
| Cor | Corinthian |
| Cyc | Cycladic |
| DA | Dark Age |
| G | Geometric |
| Gr | Greek |
| H | Helladic |
| HL | Hellenistic |
| IA | Iron Age |
| M | Minoan |
| Med | Medieval |
| Mes | Mesolithic |
| Myc | Mycenaean |
| N | Neolithic |
| O | Orientalizing |
| Ott | Ottoman |
| Pal | Palaeolithic |
| PR | Prehistoric |
| R | Roman |
| E | early |
| L | late |
| M | middle |
| P | pre- or proto- |
| S | sub- |
| anc. | ancient |
| mod. | modern |