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Chania: Igoumenou Street

PK	C5772
TITLE	Chania: Igoumenou Street
WGS84	35.507718° N, 24.029678° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.507718, 24.029678
LON/LAT	24.029678, 35.507718

DMS

35° 30' 27.7848" N

24° 1' 46.8408" E

W3W	adopts, starting, barmaid
UTM	35 S, 230598, 3933407
EGSA87	502543, 3929061

Elevation m	41
Elevation feet	134.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kydhonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   BCH Online, 2004    'Rich burial goods comprise two piriform jars, two jugs, a silver hair-clasp, a bone-handled mirror, a bone comb with relief decoration, a necklace of 23 glass-paste beads (and one in carnelian). Three seals were at his left hand - a haematite lentoid with a Master of Animals behind a bull and a lion; a carnelian with a charging bull; a carnelian with a cow nursing her calf. A bronze sword with a pommel, two daggers and at least 22 arrowheads indicate his warrior status.'
2.    Artifacts.   Galanakis [2017], 92    'Grave goods comprise a small piriform jar, a bronze vessel and razor, a cornelian seal and items echoing a 'military' status (i.e. a long sword with bone pommel and gold embellishments, three spearheads and several arrows).'
3.    Cem.   Galanakis [2017], 92    'The 53 Late Bronze Age tombs, ... '
4.    Chamber Tomb.   BCH Online, 2004    'The 54 Late Bronze tombs, dug into the kouskouras bedrock, ... '
5.    Chamber Tomb.   AR[2011], 60    'Chamber tombs are predominant ..., with a particular concentration immediately south and east of the church of Agioi Petros kai Pavlos, and at 69-71 and 73-77 Igoumenou Gavriel Street.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    AR[2011]: 60, '...spanning LMII to LMIIIB ...'
    b.    BCH Online: 2004, ' ..., date from LM II to LM IIIB early (1450-1250 BC).'
    c.    Galanakis [2017]: 92, ' ... Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete ... '

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    AR[2011]: 60, '...spanning LMII to LMIIIB ...'
    b.    BCH Online: 2004, ' ..., date from LM II to LM IIIB early (1450-1250 BC).'
    c.    Galanakis [2017]: 92, ' ... Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete ... '

3. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Galanakis [2017]: 92, ' ... a large number of these came from the LM IIIA1 tomb 46.'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    AR[2011]: 60, '...spanning LMII to LMIIIB ...'
    b.    BCH Online: 2004, ' ..., date from LM II to LM IIIB early (1450-1250 BC).'
    c.    Galanakis [2017]: 92, ' ... Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete ... '

NOTE

1. At 73-77 Igoumenou St. a large BA tomb with 54 graves. Many grave goods were found - for a survey see BCH 2004.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AR[2011]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (58) 2011., '', pg. 60. At the para. starting 'The prehistoric and historical period cemeteries of Kydonia ... '
Online here.

2. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Chania - 2005', no. 2004. Online here.

3. Galanakis [2017]: Galanakis, Yannis. ‘A survey of Late Bronze Age funerary archaeology over the last 25 years in the central and southern Aegean’, Archaeology in Greece (64), pp. 85-101, ''The discoveries made in 2003-2005 (ID2004) at Isopedon Mazali ... '', pg. 92. Online here.