Site details

Knossos: Isopata Cemetery

PK	C5567
TITLE	Knossos: Isopata Cemetery
WGS84	35.325467° N, 25.155891° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	35.325467, 25.155891
LON/LAT	25.155891, 35.325467

DMS

35° 19' 31.6812" N

25° 9' 21.2076" E

W3W	hosts, bucked, evaded
UTM	35 S, 332381, 3910697
EGSA87	604911, 3909461

Elevation m	69
Elevation feet	226.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 34    'Six chamber tombs and a rectangular built tomb like the ROYAL TOMB 2.'
2.    Cem.   Preston [2007], 295    'The Isopata cemetery is collectively prominent in the sizes and elaboration of the tomb structures by comparison with most other Knossian burial grounds, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 34, '...LATE MINOAN TOMBS'

2. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Preston [2007]: 259, '..., and the vast majority of the datable sherds belong to LM II or LM III A, ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Preston [2007]: 259, '..., and the vast majority of the datable sherds belong to LM II or LM III A, ...'

NOTE

1. For drawings of the individual tombs see Preston [2007] pp. 265, 266, 272, 277, 279, 281, and 288.

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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, '1 (166). ISOPATA LATE MINOAN TOMBS', pg. 34. Online here.

2. Preston [2007]: Preston, Laura. ‘The Isopata Cemetery at Knossos’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (102), 257-314, 2007., 'Architectural display', pg. 295. Online here.