Site details

Knossos: Palace Area: Egyptian Scarab

PK	C5591
TITLE	Knossos: Palace Area: Egyptian Scarab
WGS84	35.298776° N, 25.162748° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	35.298776, 25.162748
LON/LAT	25.162748, 35.298776

DMS

35° 17' 55.5936" N

25° 9' 45.8928" E

W3W	teaspoons, vowing, contents
UTM	35 S, 332950, 3907725
EGSA87	605569, 3906508

Elevation m	96
Elevation feet	315
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 51    'EGYPTIAN SCARAB inscribed with the name of Horemheb, last Pharaoh of Dynasty XVIII, ...'
2.    Artifacts.   AR[1974], 27    'Mr. A. Zidianakis, the British School's Foreman found a scarab ... on the surface of his land close north of the palace.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 51, '...inscribed with the name of Horemheb, ...'
    b.    AR[1974]: 27, '...photographs and a cast were submitted to Mrs Joan Crowfoot-Payne (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), who has read the cartouche as 'Djoser-Kheper-Ra' the name of Horemheb (1339-1304, or 1350-1315 B.C.), last Pharoah of the 18th Dynasty, and who considers the form of the scarab consistent with a date in the second half of the fourteenth century B.C.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AR[1974]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (21) 1974., 'Knossos: Village', pg. 26. 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, '218. EGYPTIAN SCARAB', pg. 51. Online here.