Site details

Knossos: Late Minoan II Warrior Graves

PK	C5569
TITLE	Knossos: Late Minoan II Warrior Graves
WGS84	35.306445° N, 25.155957° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	35.306445, 25.155957
LON/LAT	25.155957, 35.306445

DMS

35° 18' 23.202" N

25° 9' 21.4452" E

W3W	flatten, survive, backward
UTM	35 S, 332348, 3908587
EGSA87	604942, 3907352

Elevation m	111
Elevation feet	364.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 39    'Late Minoan II Warrior Graves...'
2.    Cem.   Hood and de Jong [1952], 243    'They comprise ... at Ayios Ioannis, a solitary 'shaft-grave' with bronze weapons of early Late Minoan type, but no vases; and (2) on the site of the new Hospital, a group of four tombs (three 'chamber-tombs' and a 'shaft-grave') containing bronze weapons, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and de Jong [1952]: 254, '...: the decoration on these according to Evans was dominantly in a L.M. IB-II style, ...'

2. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 39, 'Late Minoan II...'
    b.    Hood and de Jong [1952]: 243, '..., together with Late Minoan II vases...'
    c.    Hood and de Jong [1952]: 248, '...most of the vases may be attributed to Late Minoan II, ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Hood and de Jong [1952]: 248, '..., one at least, ..., is better classified as Late Minoan IIIA1; ...'

NOTE

1. Position of the marker is exact but there are several features in this 20 m. radius.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and de Jong [1952]: Hood, M.S.F. and P. de Jong. ‘Late Minoan Warrior-Graves from Ayios Ioannis and the New Hospital Site at Knossos’, Annual of the British School at Athens (47) 243-277, 1952, '(2) The Tombs on the New Hospital Site', pg. 246. 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, '71 (34). LATE MINOAN II WARRIOR GRAVES, one SHAFT-GRAVE and three CHAMBER TOMBS', pg. 39. Online here.