Site details

Kalami: Chamber Tomb: 1969

PK	C5744
TITLE	Kalami: Chamber Tomb: 1969
WGS84	35.459545° N, 24.150162° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.459545, 24.150162
LON/LAT	24.150162, 35.459545

DMS

35° 27' 34.362" N

24° 9' 0.5832" E

W3W	shuts, angling, glazed
UTM	35 S, 241374.68, 3927739.92
EGSA87	513477, 3923728

Elevation m	11
Elevation feet	36.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Apokoronas

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Kanta [1980], 238    'An LM III cemetery was discovered near this village. Five chamber tombs were excavated.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Langohr [2009], 172    '..., cinq petites tombes à chambre ...'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Godart and Tzedakis [1969], 228    '..., les excavatrices mirent au jour une tombe à chambre en hypogée ...', '... les recherches révélèrent l'existence en cet endroit de 4 autres tombes qui remontaient à la période allant du Minoen Récent III A au Minoen Récent III B3.'
4.    Chamber Tomb.   Moody [1987],     'Near the cement works on the E slopes of Aptera, 5 chamber tombs were discovered in the course of building the National Road.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Godart and Tzedakis [1969]: 228, '... remontaient à la période allant du Minoen Récent III A au Minoen Récent III B3.'
    b.    Moody [1987]: , '..., but tomb 3 may have been used as early as LMIIIA.'
    c.    Langohr [2009]: 172, '..., cinq petites tombes à chambre MR IIIA - IIIB ont été découvertes ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Godart and Tzedakis [1969]: 228, '... remontaient à la période allant du Minoen Récent III A au Minoen Récent III B3.'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 238, 'An LM III B cemetery ...'
    c.    Moody [1987]: , 'The pottery and bronzes from the tombs mostly date to LMIIIB, ...'
    d.    Langohr [2009]: 172, '..., cinq petites tombes à chambre MR IIIA - IIIB ont été découvertes ...'

NOTES

1. The cement works (Moody [1987]) 'Appendix III: Site catalog', 'KI6' are at 35.458793° N, 24.147208° E (F4200)

2. Our sources for the location of these chamber tombs are:

Langohr [2009, 2017] 172 as "découvertes dans les environs du village moderne de Kalami ... ; ce cimetière se trouve au pied de la colline sur laquelle était établie la ville gréco-romaine d’Aptera ... "
Moody [1987] says "Near the cement works on the E slope of Aptera, 5 chamber tombs were discovered in the course of building the National Road."
Godart and Tzedakis [1969] 228 say " ... près du petit pont qui enjambe la rivière Kiliaris, à deux pas du village de Kalami, ... "

The National Road crosses over the Kiliaris stream (sign at 35.458965 N, 24.151724 E) at 35.458968 N, 24.151082 E or, in this Atlas, F4199. The village of Kalami is at F4201. I have placed the putative location of the chamber tombs about 100 m. to the N of this crossing with a suggested error radius of 50 m.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Godart and Tzedakis [1969]: Godart, Louis and Yannis Tzedakis. ‘La tombe à l'aède de La Canée et la peinture crétoise des XIVe et XIIIe siècles avant notre ère’, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (137:1), pp. 225-247, 1993., 'B. La tombe à l'aède de Kalami', pg. 228. 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., '8. Kalami', pg. 238.

3. Langohr [2009]: Langohr, Charlotte. PERIPHEREIA: Étude régionale de la Crète aux Minoen Récent II-IIIB (1450-1200 av. J.-C.) 1 | La Crète centrale et occidentale, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium, 2009., '2.6.8. Kalami; Tombes', pg. 172. Online here.

4. Moody [1987]: Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'Appendix III: Site Catalog, KI6', Online here.