PKey Report

PK	C5687
TITLE	Sfakia: PG Tomb
WGS84	35.136996° N, 26.099852° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.136996, 26.099852
LON/LAT	26.099852, 35.136996

DMS

35° 8' 13.1856" N

26° 5' 59.4672" E

W3W	impassioned, wartime, scrubbers
UTM	35 S, 417996, 3888606
EGSA87	691161, 3889965

Elevation m	361
Elevation feet	1184.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1. Artifacts. Eaby [2007], 91 'Finds include approximately 30 vases, bronze and iron fibulae, glass paste and stone beads.'

2. Building. Nowicki [2000], 55 '...another MM IIIB building (interpreted as a sanctuary) ...'

3. Tholos. Eaby [2007], 91 ' ..., in 1955 Platon excavated a small tholos (#4) with rectangular chamber ... '

4.    Tomb.   Nowicki [2000], 55    '...and the south-east hillock yielded another MM IIIB building (interpreted as a sanctuary) and a PG tomb nearby...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 55, '...and the south-east hillock yielded another MM IIIB building (interpreted as a sanctuary) ...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 55, '...and a PG tomb nearby...'

    b.    Eaby [2007]: 91, 'Platon and Tsipopoulou (2005) date the tomb to PG, ... '

3. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)

    a.    Eaby [2007]: 91, ' ..., while Tsipopoulou and Little (2001) date the tomb solely to SM.'

NOTE

1. Eaby [2007] 91 tells us that this tomb was 'recently destroyed by a bulldozer (~2001 or 2002) ... '

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '52. Sphakia', pg. 91. Online here.

2. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '8. Sfakia Kastri', pg. 55.