Site details

Tzermiada: Trapeza Cave

PK	C5406
TITLE	Tzermiada: Trapeza Cave
WGS84	35.19779° N, 25.493642° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.19779, 25.493642
LON/LAT	25.493642, 35.19779

DMS

35° 11' 52.044" N

25° 29' 37.1112" E

W3W	distracted, solidifying, anticipation
UTM	35 S, 362869, 3896017
EGSA87	635825, 3895711

Elevation m	868
Elevation feet	2847.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Watrous and Blitzer [1982], 42    'Burials are known in the area of the site.'
2.    Cem.   Lasithi I, 23    'The MM I pithoi found in the cave may point to the survival of the custom of interment there into that period.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Lasithi I: 23, 'By the EM II period the custom of communal interment had come in ...'

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Lasithi I: 23, 'Burials certainly continued here until the end of EM III.'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Lasithi I: 23, 'the MM I pithoi found in the cave may point to the survival of the custom of interment there into that period.'

4. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Lasithi I: 13, '... a few fragments of the highly localised MM II style had been imported from Knossos or Phaistos ...'

5. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: 42, '...remains of a LM IIIA larnax burial were found...'

NOTE

1. This is a mixed site. An habitat in the LN and EM; used for burials in the EM II and MM I.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Lasithi I: Pendlebury, J.D.S. and M. B. Money-Coutts. ‘Excavations in the Plain of Lasithi. I. The Cave of Trapeza’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (36), pp. 5-131, 1935., 'II. The Cave of Trapeza', pg. 13. Pendlebury thinks this cave to have been abandoned after MM III (p. 23).
Online here.

2. Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: Watrous, Livingston Vance and H. Blitzer. ‘Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete’, Hesperia Supplements (18), Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete, pp. 1-122. 1982., '11. Tzermiado: Trapeza Cave', pg. 42. Online here.