Site details
Knossos: Hogarth's Tombs
| PK | C5546 |
| TITLE | Knossos: Hogarth's Tombs |
| WGS84 | 35.308619° N, 25.158662° E |
| Accuracy | 10 m. |
| LAT/LON | 35.308619, 25.158662 |
| LON/LAT | 25.158662, 35.308619 |
| DMS | 35° 18' 31.0284" N | , | 25° 9' 31.1832" E |
| W3W | mulls, grid, defining |
| UTM | 35 S, 332599, 3908824 |
| EGSA87 | 605185, 3907596 |
| Elevation m | 105 |
| Elevation feet | 344.5 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Temenos |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb
TYPE
1. Chamber Tomb. Hood and Smyth [1981], 37 'Minoan chamber tombs re-used in Geometrical times).'2. Chamber Tomb. Hogarth [1900], 82 Tombs described pp. 82-5.
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '..., but one Late Minoan...'
b. Hogarth [1900]: 82, '"Mycenaean" vases, ...'
2. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, 'Most with Early Iron Age remains, ...'
3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, 'In 1957 a disturbed tomb with pottery ranging from Protogeometric to Orientalizing was cleared...'
4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '...: one with a circular chamber with Geometric and Archaic sherds, ...'
b. Hogarth [1900]: 83, '..., and some fifteen stamped clay beads of a well-known Geometric type.', '..., two large Geometric amphorae, ...'
5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '...: one with a circular chamber with Geometric and Archaic sherds, ...'
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Hogarth [1900]: Hogarth, D.G.. ‘Knossos. Summary Report of the Excavations in 1900: II. Early Town and Cemeteries’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (6) 70-85, 1899/1900., '(1)', pg. 82.
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, '39 (15). HOGARTH'S TOMBS, MINOAN and EARLY IRON AGE', pg. 37.
Online here.