Melidhoni: Gourgouthias Cave
| PK | C5745 |
| TITLE | Melidhoni: Gourgouthias Cave |
| WGS84 | 35.386129° N, 24.122387° E |
| Accuracy | 100 m. |
| LAT/LON | 35.386129, 24.122387 |
| LON/LAT | 24.122387, 35.386129 |
| DMS | 35° 23' 10.0644" N | , | 24° 7' 20.5932" E |
| W3W | overlook, packs, fleshly |
| UTM | 35 S, 238616, 3919668 |
| EGSA87 | 510967, 3915583 |
| Elevation m | 339 |
| Elevation feet | 1112.2 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Apokoronas |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery
TYPE
1. Pottery. Kanta [1980], 237 'In the Gourgouthia cave an LM III B four-handled pithos, ...'2. Pottery. Mavriyannaki [1969], 167 '... un piccolo pithos ...'
3. Pottery. Masano [2015], 174 '... il caso del pithos, di TM IIIB, rinvenuto all'interno della grotta di Gourgouthia, presso Melidoni, ...'
4. Refuge Cave. Moody [1987], 'FUNCTION: Neolithic and Minoan burial cave Minoan-refuge cave'
5. Sherds. Treuil [1970], 15 '...: dans ce vaste abri, au Sud-Est du village, ont été trouvés de nombreux tessons : ...'
6. Sherds. Hood [1965], 112 '..., L.M. III and some Greco-Roman sherds.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Treuil [1970]: 15, '...: les uns ont été datés du M. R. III, ...', 'Assurément les tessons sont ici nombreux et l'occupation M. R. n'est pas douteuse'
b. Moody [1987]: , 'LMIII (probably IIIB)'
c. Hood [1965]: 112, '..., L.M. III and some Greco-Roman sherds.', 'A vase 0.30 m. high with octopus decoration assigned to L.M. III was found here by chance in 1961.'
2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Kanta [1980]: 237, '... an LM III B four-handled pithos, ...'
b. Mavriyannaki [1969]: 168, '...questo vaso esso apartiene al periodo T.M. III B ...'
c. Masano [2015]: 174, '..., di TM IIIB, ...'
d. Moody [1987]: , 'LMIII (probably IIIB)'
NOTE
1. I cannot locate this cave (Gourgouthia) precisely. Following Moody (Appendix 3: MLD1) I have put it 700 m. SE of Melidoni in a separate valley. There are other possibilities.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Hood [1965]: Hood, M.S.F.. ‘Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), pp. 99-113, 1965., 'D.. 4. Melidhoni; 1. 'Youryouthia'', pg. 112.
A cave.
Online here.
2. Jasink and Bombardieri (eds.) [2015]: Jasink, Anna Margherita and Luca Bombardieri. AKROTHINIA; Contributi di giovani ricercatori italiani agli studi egei e ciprioti. Firenze University Press, 2015., '',
3. 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., '7. Melidhoni', pg. 237.
4. Masano [2015]: Masano, Maria Elena. ‘Il defunto nelle necropoli cretesi del TM III: pratiche e trattamento del corpo’, Jasink and Bombardieri, edd. [2015], pp. 163-184, 2015., '', pg. 174.
Online here.
5. Mavriyannaki [1969]: Mavriyannaki, Caterina. ‘Incinerazioni del Tardo Minoico III nella Creta occidentale’, Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni italiane in Oriente (vv. 45-46, n.s. 29-30), pp. 167-179, 1969., '', pg. 167.
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6. 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, MLD1', Online here.
7. Treuil [1970]: Treuil, Rene. ‘Les sites néolithiques de Crète occidentale’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (94:1), pp. 5-25, 1970., 'Melidoni (Apokoronou), grotte de Gourgouthia:', pg. 15.
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