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Kalokhorafitis: Pirgiotissis

PKC5303
TITLEKalokhorafitis: Pirgiotissis
WGS84 35.110738° N, 24.817384° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 35.110738, 24.817384
LON/LAT 24.817384, 35.110738

DMS 35° 6' 38.6568" N,24° 49' 2.5824" E

W3Wshabbier, staged, hardtop
UTM35 S, 301085, 3887503
EGSA87 574339, 3885340

Elevation m281
Elevation feet 921.9
RegionCrete
SubregionPyrgiotissa





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Kanta [1980], 104    'The 1961 tomb ... was situated in a location called Prinaria ...', 'For the 1968 chamber tomb there is only a brief mention in the Archaeological Reports ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Langohr [2009], 122    'Trois tombes à chambre y ont été découvertes,, ... '
3.    Tomb.   AR[1961], 24    'K. Davaras cleared a Late Minoan III tomb with two box-shaped larnakes and several other burials.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    AR[1961]: 24, '... a Late Minoan III tomb ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 105, '..., it contained both III A and III B finds.'
    b.    Langohr [2009]: 122, ' ...; elle (i.e. Kanta, RHC) les lie à la fin de la phase MR IIIA et au MR IIIB.'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 104, '..., it contained both III A and III B finds.'
    b.    Langohr [2009]: 122, ' ...; elle (i.e. Kanta, RHC) les lie à la fin de la phase MR IIIA et au MR IIIB.'

NOTE

1.  Placed notionally on the town. Kanta supplies little in the way of directions. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, CA.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  AR[1961]:  Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (8) 1961., 'Kalokhorasitis (Pirgiotissis).', pg. 24. The tomb included '...a large number of vases, notably stirrup-jars, together with a razor and many beads.'
Online here.

2.  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., '4. Kalokhorafitis', pg. 104. Kanta is describing two different tombs.

3.  Langohr [2009]:  Langohr, Charlotte. PERIPHEREIA: Étude régionale de la Crète aux Minoen Récent II-IIIB (1450-1200 av. J.-C.) 1 | La Crète centrale et occidentale, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium, 2009., '2.4.7. Kalochorafitis', pg. 122. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5303 is at 35.07801° N, 24.74291° E, a straight-line distance of 7 km and 676 m.