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Knossos: LM III Chamber Tombs (3 & 4)

PKC5571
TITLEKnossos: LM III Chamber Tombs (3 & 4)
WGS84 35.309392° N, 25.167657° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 35.309392, 25.167657
LON/LAT 25.167657, 35.309392

DMS 35° 18' 33.8112" N,25° 10' 3.5652" E

W3Wgroups, flow, churn
UTM35 S, 333418, 3908894
EGSA87 606002, 3907691

Elevation m87
Elevation feet 285.4
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 36    '...CHAMBER TOMBS...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   AR[1968], 33    'Nearby, a second chamber tomb was found; ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    AR[1968]: 33, 'The vases were mostly plain and of LM II-IIIA 1 types.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 36, '..., with burials assigned to early L. M. III A, ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    AR[1968]: 33, '...a few bronzes and some LM IIIA 1 vases were recovered.'. '...with a scarab attributable by its cartouche to Amenophis III (c. 1417-1379)...'
    b.    AR[1968]: 33, 'The vases were mostly plain and of LM II-IIIA 1 types.'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    AR[1968]: 33, '...and the other a high-spouted jar of Mycenaean IIIA 1 manufacture...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  AR[1968]:  Archaeological Reports. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (15) 1968-1969., '', pg. 33. At the words 'Nearby, a second chamber tomb was found; it was robbed ...'
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, ''29. LATE MINOAN III CHAMBER TOMBS (SELLOPOULO TOMBS 3 AND 4)'', pg. 36. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5571 is at 35.33393° N, 25.19138° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 468 m.