Site details

Knossos: Iron Age Cemetery

PK	C5548
TITLE	Knossos: Iron Age Cemetery
WGS84	35.308044° N, 25.151553° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.308044, 25.151553
LON/LAT	25.151553, 35.308044

DMS

35° 18' 28.9584" N

25° 9' 5.5908" E

W3W	nuance, starter, comical
UTM	35 S, 331951, 3908772
EGSA87	604540, 3907524

Elevation m	108
Elevation feet	354.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 37    '...with thirteen or more tombs and evidence of use from Protogeometric to Orientalizing times.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, 'Early Iron Age Cemetery'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '...evidence of use from Protogeometric to Orientalizing times.'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, '... evidence of use from Protogeometric to Orientalizing times.'

NOTE

1. More detail about these tombs in Sackett and Musgrave, 'A New Figured Krater from Knossos', in The Annual of the British School at Athens (71), pp. 117-129, 1976. Online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/30103356

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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, '47 (13). EARLY IRON AGE CEMETERY', pg. 37. Online here.