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Knossos: Kephala Tholos Tomb

PK	C5542
TITLE	Knossos: Kephala Tholos Tomb
WGS84	35.312716° N, 25.160298° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.312716, 25.160298
LON/LAT	25.160298, 35.312716

DMS

35° 18' 45.7776" N

25° 9' 37.0728" E

W3W	signal, short, strongly
UTM	35 S, 332756, 3909275
EGSA87	605329, 3908052

Elevation m	110
Elevation feet	360.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 35    '..., Tholos Tomb; ....'
2.    Tholos.   Cadogan [1967], 257    'The tholos tomb on the Kephala ridge near Knossos, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Cadogan [1967]: 258, 'There are two Conical Cups (a third is missing) : one is L.M. I and plain, ...'

2. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 35, 'The earliest evidence for burials dates from L. M. II after the Mycenaean conquest of Knossos c. 1450 B.C., ...'

3. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Cadogan [1967]: 258, '..., the other is of the L.M. III open shape, ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 35, 'The tomb was used for burials in L. M. III C like the ISOPATA ROYAL TOMB ...'
    b.    Cadogan [1967]: 257, '..., contained in the fill several deposits of skeletal remains and of L.M. IIIC pottery.'

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Cadogan [1967]: 259, '...; they support the theory of strong Mycenaean influence of advanced L.H. IIIC character on the second phase of L.M. IIIC in Crete...'

6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 35, 'A few possible Protogeometric sherds are in boxes from here ...'

NOTE

1. Cadogan [1967] provides a plan of the tomb on p. 258.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Cadogan [1967]: Cadogan, Gerald. ‘Late Minoan IIIC Pottery from the Kephala Tholos Tomb near Knossos’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (67), 257-265, 1967, 'Late Minoan IIIC Pottery from the Kephala Tholos Tomb near Knossos ', pg. 257. Online here.

2. Hood and Smyth [1981]: Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, ''17(8). KEFALA THOLOS TOMB'', pg. 35. Online here.