PKey Report
PKC7390
TITLEAzoria: Building 3700 Tholos Tomb
WGS84 35.117508° N, 25.866399° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.117508, 25.866399
LON/LAT 25.866399, 35.117508

DMS 35° 7' 3.0288" N,25° 51' 59.0364" E

W3Wdropped, sustained, cattle
UTM35 S, 396702.83, 3886662.26
EGSA87 669930, 3887379

Elevation m343
Elevation feet 1125.3
RegionCrete
SubregionIerapetra





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Eaby [2007], 52    ' ... five small vases, two conical stone beads, and a bronze ring.'

2.    Pottery.   BCH Online, 184    ' ..., et un mobilier essentiellement céramique (MR IIIC-G).'

3.    Tholos.   BCH Online, 184    'Un drain longeant la partie Est de la pièce passait au-dessus du stomion d'une tombe à tholos intacte ... '

4.    Tholos.   Eaby [2007], 52    'Excavation in 2006 revealed a single, small (1.42 x 0.90 m) LM IIIC/SM-PG tholos tomb with an ellipsoidal chamber ... '



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)

    a.    BCH Online: 184 ' ... du début de l'Âge du Fer.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    BCH Online: 184 ' ... un mobilier essentiellement céramique (MR IIIC-G).'

    b.    Eaby [2007]: 52 ' ... LM IIIC/SM-PG tholos tomb ... ', 'This tomb was probably associated with the LM IIIC settlement located further up the (Azoria) hill; ... '

3. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)

    a.    Eaby [2007]: 52 ' ... LM IIIC/SM-PG tholos tomb ... '

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)

    a.    BCH Online: 184 ' ... un mobilier essentiellement céramique (MR IIIC-G).'


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  BCH Online:  Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Azoria - 2006: Terrasses inférieures Sud-Ouest.', no. 184. Online here.

2.  Eaby [2007]:  Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., 'B. Azoria - ', pg. 52. Online here.