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Mycenae: Epano Phournos Tholos

PKC1583
TITLEMycenae: Epano Phournos Tholos
WGS84 37.728413° N, 22.751908° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.728413, 22.751908
LON/LAT 22.751908, 37.728413

DMS 37° 43' 42.2868" N,22° 45' 6.8688" E

W3Wscorecard, weaved, illustrated
UTM34 S, 654384, 4177127
EGSA87 389866, 4176128

Elevation m203
Elevation feet 666
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Iakovidis et al. [2003], 45    'Tholos tomb of the first constructional group, closely related in technique to the Cyclopean tomb.'
2.    Tholos.   Wace et al. [1953], 71    'On or immediately above the floor of the tholos itself nothing was found of any period later than the Mycenaean, which is good evidence that the collapse of the dome had already occurred before the end of the Bronze Age.'
3.    Tomb.   Pelon [1976], 158    'La Tombe d'Épano Phournos est construite à environ 150 m à l'Est de la Tombe Cyclopéenne, ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Wace et al. [1953]: 69, ' ..., and a small clay spool which might be Mycenaean.'

2. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 159, '... Wace, après ses recherches de 1922, plaçait la tombe dans la première moitiée de l'HR II.'
    b.    Wace et al. [1953]: 69, 'In clearing the doorway we found a part of a fine Palace Style amphora of early L.H. II date ...'

3. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 159, '... une datation antérieure à 1450 av. J.-C.'
    b.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 45, 'Presumed construction: LH IIA Early.'

4. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Wace et al. [1953]: 69, ' ..., about fifty L.H. III pieces, ... '

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 45, 'Evidence for later use: Dromos, fifteen sherds of Geometric date in Argive style.'
    b.    Wace et al. [1953]: 69, ' ..., and eighty eight fragments of Geometric and ordinary Hellenic ware, principally the former, ... '

6. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 45, 'Fragments of Archaic glazed vessels, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Iakovidis et al. [2003]:  Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'D3:23 - LH IIA Early', pg. 45.

2.  Pelon [1976]:  Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '1B. La Tombe d'Épano Phournos', pg. 158. Online here.

3.  Wace et al. [1953]:  Wace, A.J.B., M.S.F. Hood and J.M. Cook. ‘Mycenae, 1939 - 1952: Part IV. The Epano Phournos Tholos Tomb’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (48), 69-83. 1953., '', Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1583 is at 37.59069° N, 22.76955° E, a straight-line distance of 15 km and 410 m.