Site details

Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos: Cem

PK	C1374
TITLE	Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos: Cem
WGS84	36.369843° N, 28.031035° E
Accuracy	500 m.

LAT/LON	36.369843, 28.031035
LON/LAT	28.031035, 36.369843

DMS

36° 22' 11.4348" N

28° 1' 51.726" E

W3W	ascendant, impulsive, unconscious
UTM	35 S, 592490, 4025464
EGSA87	861545, 4032234

Elevation m	35
Elevation feet	114.8
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber tomb.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 140    'Archaic tombs were found in the vicinity, and a ruined Mycenaean chamber tomb which contained two L.H. IIIA 1 vases.'
2.    Chamber tomb.   Simpson [1981], 196    'Two LH IIIA1 vases were recovered from a ruined chamber tomb in this vicinity.'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 350    ' ... a ruined chamber tomb in this vicinity ... '
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 350    ' ..., LH and other prehistoric sherds ... '

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 350,  Size: 10800 sq. m.  ' ... were thinly spread over an area c. 120 m. E-W by 90 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, ' ..., LH and other prehistoric sherds ... '

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 140, 'Archaic tombs were found in the vicinity, and a ruined Mycenaean chamber tomb which contained two L.H. IIIA 1 vases.'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 196, 'Two LH IIIA1 vases were recovered from a ruined chamber tomb in this vicinity.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H', 'From a ruined chamber tomb in this vicinity came two LH IIIA1 vases.'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 350, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A-B) A H'

NOTES

1. No exact position is available for this chamber tomb. An error radius of 500 seems appropriate for this marker; the chapel is less than half a kilometer distant from the tomb.

2. For a discussion of the placement of this cemetery see Georgiadis [2003] 37 at the words \'The cemetery at Tolon, ... \'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 37. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos', pg. 196. Online here.

3. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos', pg. 140. Online here.

4. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Tolon: Ayios Ioannis Theologos', pg. 350. Online here.