Site details

Plati: Skalia

PK	C5410
TITLE	Plati: Skalia
WGS84	35.169941° N, 25.436116° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.169941, 25.436116
LON/LAT	25.436116, 35.169941

DMS

35° 10' 11.7876" N

25° 26' 10.0176" E

W3W	imparts, fuzzily, goes
UTM	35 S, 357583, 3893009
EGSA87	630633, 3892545

Elevation m	852
Elevation feet	2795.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Dawkins [1913], 13    'It is a bee-hive tomb with a dromos, ...'
2.    Tholos.   Kanta [1980], 121    'A tholos tomb was discovered at the Skalia location.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Dawkins [1913]: 14, 'These chest-larnakes apparently occur all through the Late Minoan III period, ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 121, 'Those (larnakes, RHC) which are datable can be ascribed to LM III A ...; but this does not necessarily mean that the Plati sarcophagus belongs to this period.'

NOTE

1. The tomb was dated by Dawkins from the chest larnax found within. Kanta suggests that the date of the tomb must remain open (121).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dawkins [1913]: Dawkins, R.M.. ‘Excavations at Plati in Lasithi, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (20) 1-17, 1913/1914., '%C2%A7 3. - The Bee-hive Tomb.', pg. 13. 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., '2. Plati', pg. 121.