Site details

Knossos: EIA Tombs

PK	C5552
TITLE	Knossos: EIA Tombs
WGS84	35.305645° N, 25.150919° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.305645, 25.150919
LON/LAT	25.150919, 35.305645

DMS

35° 18' 20.322" N

25° 9' 3.3084" E

W3W	contacts, mime, interval
UTM	35 S, 331888, 3908507
EGSA87	604485, 3907257

Elevation m	127
Elevation feet	416.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 37    'In 1957 the inhabitants showed the position of two tombs, one in the yard of a house, the other in a vineyard about 15 metres to the south-east.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, 'These must have been the two Early Iron Age tombs dug by Payne 'at Fortezza' in 1927...'

2. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 37, 'Fragments of Geometric pottery were found in the vineyard by Hood in 1953.'

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, '51 (21). EARLY IRON AGE TOMBS', pg. 37. Online here.