Site details

Lastros: SW Chamber Tomb

PK	C5719
TITLE	Lastros: SW Chamber Tomb
WGS84	35.137628° N, 25.897094° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.137628, 25.897094
LON/LAT	25.897094, 35.137628

DMS

35° 8' 15.4608" N

25° 53' 49.5384" E

W3W	pleasurably, wildly, deducing
UTM	35 S, 399525, 3888862
EGSA87	672685, 3889664

Elevation m	341
Elevation feet	1118.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Kanta [1980], 174    '...in a small chamber tomb which also contained the skeleton of a child.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Eaby [2007], 75    '...additional chamber tombs of the same date were identified somewhere to the southwest of the village.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 174, 'The date of the find is given as LM III B.'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 75, '...of the same date...', i.e. LM IIIB

NOTES

1. The report of this tomb is in Schachermeyr, F. 1938. Vorbericht über eine Expedition nach Ostkreta. Archäologischer Anzeiger (53) 466-480.

2. See the mentions of Lastros in Vavouranakis [2007] on pp. 20, 24, 50, 125, and 140. On 140 Vavouranakis says that the bathtub larnax(?) 'contained two infants' but Kanta [1980] 174 says '... the figurines of two children, was discovered in a small chamber tomb which also contained the skeleton of a child.'

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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., '40. Lastros', pg. 75. Online here.

2. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '4. Lastros', pg. 174.

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