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Knossos: Unexplored Mansion

PK	C5561
TITLE	Knossos: Unexplored Mansion
WGS84	35.299323° N, 25.159872° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.299323, 25.159872
LON/LAT	25.159872, 35.299323

DMS

35° 17' 57.5628" N

25° 9' 35.5392" E

W3W	scoots, driveway, crispy
UTM	35 S, 332689, 3907790
EGSA87	605307, 3906566

Elevation m	117
Elevation feet	383.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 47    'J. W. Graham ... has suggested that it was added to the LITTLE PALACE as a banquet hall complex.'
2.    Building.   Hatzaki [2005], 79
3.    Building.   Popham et al. [1984], 261    'So, the Mansion may have had no other purpose beyond that of an overflow from an overfull Little Palace, or to provide an ind?pendant but linked establishment for a particular member of the family or an official serving it.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan IIB: (1775 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'The material includes scrappy MM IIB/LM IA ...'

2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Popham et al. [1984]: 261, '...pottery which is close to the MM III phase, ...'

3. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'The pottery ... generally dating to MM IIIB/LM IA ...'
    b.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'Amongst the scrappy pottery there is a MM IIIB/LM IA type im and out bowl rim ...

4. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'The wall produced scrappy LM I sherds, ...'

5. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'The pottery ..., generally dating to MM IIIB/LM IA ...'
    b.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, 'Amongst the scrappy pottery there is a MM IIIB/LM IA type is and out bowl rim ...'
    c.    Popham et al. [1984]: 261, '..., but which may well be an early stage of LM IA.'

6. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, 'It was destroyed by fire in L. M. II, but has traces of later occupation.', 'For 'Marine Style' vases asignable to early L. M. II from the area of the UNEXPLORED MANSION ...'
    b.    Hatzaki [2005]: 79, 'Other datable and illustrated pieces include two LM II type decorated sherds ...;'
    c.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, '... apart from a few LM II tpe fabrics.'
    d.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, '... the body fragment of a LM II or LM IIIA1 closed vessel ...'
    e.    Popham et al. [1984]: 261, '...the ground floor...remained unoccupied for some fifty years or so, until LM II, when earth floors were laid in the unfinished areas.'
    f.    Popham et al. [1984]: 263, 'Finds from the Mansion have confirmed the introduction of Mycenaean features in LM II and, ...'

7. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 79, '...; a LM IIIA shallow bowl ...'

8. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 81, '... the body fragment of a LM II or LM IIIA1 closed vessel ...'
    b.    Popham et al. [1984]: 261, '..., and the small patch of surviving pebble floor with LM IIIA 1 pottery, ...'

9. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hatzaki [2005]: 79, '..., the bulk of the material collected dates to LM IIIA2 and LM IIIB early ...'
    b.    Popham et al. [1984]: 263, 'Not long afterwards in LM IIIA 2, the end of the interior corridor (E) was sealed off, ...'

10. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '..., for pottery assigned to L. M. III B from the LITTLE PALACE and UNEXPLORED MANSION.'
    b.    Hatzaki [2005]: 79, '..., the bulk of the material collected dates to LM IIIA2 and LM IIIB early ...'
    c.    Popham et al. [1984]: 263, '..., when the Mansion was finally abandoned in LM IIIB.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hatzaki [2005]: Hatzaki, Eleni M.. ‘Knossos; The Little Palace’, British School at Athens, Supplementary Volumes, no. 38, 2005., 'THE MINOAN UNEXPLORED MANSION', pg. 79. 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, '186. UNEXPLORED MANSION.', pg. 47. Online here.

3. Popham et al. [1984]: Popham, M.R. and J. H. Betts, M. Cameron, H. W. Catling, D. Evely, R. A. Higgins, D. Smyth. The Minoan Unexplored Mansion at Knossos: Text. The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, no. 17, pp. 1-310, 1984., 'Section 9; Summary and Conclusions', pg. 261. Online here.