Site details

Aspropilia

PK	C5715
TITLE	Aspropilia
WGS84	35.176386° N, 25.9393° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.176386, 25.9393
LON/LAT	25.9393, 35.176386

DMS

35° 10' 34.9896" N

25° 56' 21.48" E

W3W	surpass, according, keyboards
UTM	35 S, 403416, 3893119
EGSA87	676447, 3894037

Elevation m	84
Elevation feet	275.6
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 79    '12 LM IIIA - C tombs (10 chambers and 2 pits) were excavated in 1959 by Platon ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Vavouranakis [2007], 24    'There, a cluster of LM III chambers was excavated...'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   BCH [1960], 819    'N. Platon a exploré près de Myrsini un cimetière de tombes à chambres taillées dans le roc, d'époque post-palatiale.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 24, '..., a cluster of LM III chambers ...'
    b.    BCH [1960]: 820, 'Fig. 1. - Myrsini Tombe MR III, pithos funéraire.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 79, 'Tombs A and B were both chamber tombs (LM IIIA - C), ...'

3. Postpalatial: (1380 BC - 1100 BC)
    a.    BCH [1960]: 819, '...d'epoque post-palatiale.'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 79, 'Tombs A and B were both chamber tombs (LM IIIA - C), ...', 'Tomb Gamma was a small pit (LM IIIB-C) which held a possible infant burial in a pithos ...'

5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 79, 'The LM IIIC evidence from these tombs thus comes primarily from stirrup jars, ...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 80, '...remains of additional tombs, apparently Geometric and probably chambers, ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH [1960]: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 84-1, 84-2, 1960., 'Myrsini', pg. 819. Online here.

2. 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., '44. Myrsini', pg. 79. Online here.

3. Vavouranakis [2007]: Vavouranakis, Giorgos. Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age. BAR International Series, no. 1606, 2007, '', pg. 24. Online here.