Site details

Apesokari: Tholos B

PK	C5301
TITLE	Apesokari: Tholos B
WGS84	35.004522° N, 24.948857° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.004522, 24.948857
LON/LAT	24.948857, 35.004522

DMS

35° 0' 16.2792" N

24° 56' 55.8852" E

W3W	undertaken, alright, cogent
UTM	35 S, 312826, 3875467
EGSA87	586433, 3873667

Elevation m	209
Elevation feet	685.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kainourion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Kanta [1980], 93    '...its MM I tholos tomb...'
2.    Tholos.   Dederix [2019], 188    'To the south-west of the village, three Bronze Age sites have been identified: a settlement and two circular tombs (dubbed Tholos A and Tholos B) ... ','Tholos B, ..., was excavated in 1963 by Kostis Davaras (1964, p. 441).'
3.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 171    'The Mesara-type tombs are circular stone-built structures a number of which show traces of an original corbelled 'tholos' roof.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Dederix [2019]: 190, 'Tholos B at Apesokari was initially built in Early Minoan (EM) I (ca. 3100 - 2650 BCE, ... '

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Dederix [2019]: 188, 'Tholos A and Tholos B were hence simultaneously used for burial during EM III - MM II, a period of ca. 500 years.'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 93, '... MM I tholos tomb ...'
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: , 'Dating: MMI.'
    c.    Dederix [2019]: 188, 'Tholos A and Tholos B were hence simultaneously used for burial during EM III - MM II, a period of ca. 500 years.'

4. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Dederix [2019]: 188, 'Tholos A and Tholos B were hence simultaneously used for burial during EM III - MM II, a period of ca. 500 years.'

NOTES

1.  Turnoff to the tholos tomb (SW of Apesokari) is sign-posted (F3886). Tholos B is visible at the place marked.

2.  See the photograph in Dederix [2019] 189, Figure 2, that set tholos A and tholos B in relation to the nearby settlement.

3.  Tholos A is 211.24 m distant on a bearing of 264.08 degrees from tholos B to A at 35.004276 N, 24.946552 E

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dederix [2019]: Déderix, Sylviane. ‘Patterns of Visibility, Intervisibility and Invisibility at Bronze Age Apesokari (Crete)’, Open Archaeology (5), 187-203. (DeGruyter 2019), 'Bronze Age Apesokari', pg. 188. Online here.

2. Goodison and Guarita [2005]: Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita. ‘A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005, '2. Apesokari B', pg. 179. Online here.

3. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '8. Apesokari', pg. 93.