Site details

Dreros: Cem

PK	C5856
TITLE	Dreros: Cem
WGS84	35.25852° N, 25.632172° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.25852, 25.632172
LON/LAT	25.632172, 35.25852

DMS

35° 15' 30.672" N

25° 37' 55.8192" E

W3W	unaffected, growl, nuttier
UTM	35 S, 375573, 3902570
EGSA87	648327, 3902645

Elevation m	349
Elevation feet	1145
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Van Effenterre [1948], 15    'La nécropole se trouve à une centaine de mètres plus à l'Est.', i.e. from the Church of Hagios Yeoryios (F4418).
2.    Cem.   Kanta [1980], 133    'The Dreros cemetery ... '
3.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 34    'An unrobbed cemetery is located ~200 m north of the acropolis and ~200 m northeast of the agora of the ancient (LM IIIC-A) town/settlement of Dreros (north of the village Nikithiano) at the northeastern foot of Ag. Antonios hill and ~100 m to the east of Ag. Georgios chapel.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 133, 'Tomb no. 1, ..., belongs to the LM III C.'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 35, 'The earliest tomb from the cemetery (T.1) was a probable tholos (SM, possibly with some LM IIIC)...'

2. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 133, '...Subminoan.'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 35, 'The earliest tomb from the cemetery (T.1) was a probable tholos (SM, possibly with some LM IIIC)...'

3. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Van Effenterre [1948]: 17, ' ...: une tombe submycénienne ... datée par de nombreux vases', '1° Tombe Submycénienne'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 35, 'The majority of the burials (23) were cist graves/bone enclosures (apparently G, but primarily LG-EO) with cremations.'
    b.    Van Effenterre [1948]: 17, ' ..., neuf "pithos-burials" ... et onze fosses à incinération ... de l'époque géométrique.'

5. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 35, 'The majority of the burials (23) were cist graves/bone enclosures (apparently G, but primarily LG-EO) with cremations.'

NOTES

1.  Tomb no. 1 is a tholos tomb. Kanta [1980] 133.

2.  The Ag. Georgios chapel referred to is at F4418.

3.  For a photograph that places the cemetery see Gaignerot-Driessen [2013] 289, fig. 2.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Driessen ed. [2013]: Driessen, Jan. Destruction: Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives. Presses Universitaires de Louvain. 2013., '',

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., '10. Dreros', pg. 34. Online here.

3. Gaignerot-Driessen [2013]: Gaignerot-Driessen, Florence. ‘The "killing" of a city: a destruction by enforced abandonment’, Driessen ed. [2013] 285-297., '', pg. 285. Online here.

4. 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. Dreros', pg. 133.

5. Van Effenterre [1948]: Van Effenterre, Henri. Nécropoles du Mirabello. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris. 1948., ''La Nécropole de Dreros'', pg. 15.