Site details

Knossos: Tholos Tomb

PK	C5547
TITLE	Knossos: Tholos Tomb
WGS84	35.309459° N, 25.151588° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.309459, 25.151588
LON/LAT	25.151588, 35.309459

DMS

35° 18' 34.0524" N

25° 9' 5.7168" E

W3W	embraced, beast, spoon
UTM	35 S, 331957, 3908929
EGSA87	604541, 3907681

Elevation m	101
Elevation feet	331.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 47    'THOLOS TOMB, apparently MINOAN, but re-used for burials in the EARLY IRON AGE, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '..., but re-used for burials in the EARLY IRON AGE, ...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '...pottery ranging from Protogeometric B to Early Orientalizing ...'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '...pottery ranging from Protogeometric B to Early Orientalizing ...'

NOTE

1. More detail about this tholos and the two flanking Chamber Tombs can be found in Hutchinson and Boardman, 'The Khaniale Tekke Tombs' in BSA (49), pp. 15-228, 1954. Online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/30096990

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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, '46(11). THOLOS TOMB', pg. 37. Online here.