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Knossos: Hogarth's Tombs

PKC5546
TITLEKnossos: 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

W3Wmulls, grid, defining
UTM35 S, 332599, 3908824
EGSA87 605185, 3907596

Elevation m105
Elevation feet 344.5
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





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.

Nearest shoreline

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