PKey Report

PK	C5313
TITLE	Moroni: Larnax burials
WGS84	35.073259° N, 24.885669° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.073259, 24.885669
LON/LAT	24.885669, 35.073259

DMS

35° 4' 23.7324" N

24° 53' 8.4084" E

W3W	overpay, wired, unsettled
UTM	35 S, 307220.93, 3883211.72
EGSA87	580599, 3881237

Elevation m	178
Elevation feet	584
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kainourion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1. Larnax. Kanta [1980], 88 'Pendlebury discovered a group of LM III larnax burials, outside a series of caves, on a branch of the Minoan road going down to Moires.'

2.    Larnax.   Pendlebury et al. [1933], 90    '..., passing on the way a group of L.M. III larnax burials discovered the previous year by the Curator outside a series of caved by a spring.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Kanta [1980]: 88, '...a group of LM III larnax burials, ...'

    b.    Pendlebury et al. [1933]: 90, '...a group of L.M. III larnax burials...'

NOTE

1. The ancient Minoan route, Pendlebury ([1933] 90) tells us, divided at Moroni (F3880) with one branch going SW to Moires/Myrais (F8181) and the other S towards Rouphas (F8182). Of the SW branch to Moires/Myrais Pendlebury says this: 'One branch goes down to Myrais, passing on the way a group of L.M. III larnax burials discovered the previous year by the Curator outside a series of caves by a spring.’ Pendlebury presents a map (83) of central Crete on which the SW route from Moroni to Myrais is shown as having been travelled by them in 1934. Just to the NE of Myrais a ‘+’ sign has been placed. This can only indicate the rough position of the cave in question somewhere in the valley of the Tourki brook. Topoguide shows a cave at 35.089308° N,24.896721° E but, being so far to the NE, this does not really accord with Pendlebury’s map. As a result I have placed this marker in the Tourki valley a little to the NE of Moires.

Kanta (88) says ‘Pendlebury discovered a group of LM III larnax burials, outside a series of caves, on a branch of the Minoan road going down to Moires.’ Pendlebury clearly tells us that he was not the discoverer.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '2. Moroni', pg. 88.

2. Pendlebury et al. [1933]: Pendlebury, J.D.S., M. B. Money-Coutts, E. Eccles. ‘Journeys in Crete, 1934’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (33) 80-100, 1932-1933., '', pg. 90. Online here.