Site details

Stena: Cem

PK	C1133
TITLE	Stena: Cem
WGS84	36.57054° N, 22.981132° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	36.57054, 22.981132
LON/LAT	22.981132, 36.57054

DMS

36° 34' 13.944" N

22° 58' 52.0752" E

W3W	outdoes, enliven, underpin
UTM	34 S, 677270, 4049059
EGSA87	408687, 4047427

Elevation m	137
Elevation feet	449.5
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 108    '..., are two groups of plundered chamber tombs cut in the soft sandstone rock.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Laconia II, 141

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 108, 'EH II LH IIA LH III(A-B)'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Laconia II: 141, Implied but Waterhouse/Simpson do not explicitly say.

3. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 108, 'EH II LH IIA LH III(A-B)'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 108, 'EH II LH IIA LH III(A-B)'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 108, 'EH II LH IIA LH III(A-B)'

NOTE

1. Simpson [1981] 108 and in WS61, 141 says that these tombs are about 500 m. from the top of the hill. They are almost exactly 200 m.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 38 Stena', pg. 108. Online here.

2. Laconia II: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'Stena', pg. 141. Online here.