Site details

Milatos: Cem

PK	C5859
TITLE	Milatos: Cem
WGS84	35.305587° N, 25.564276° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.305587, 25.564276
LON/LAT	25.564276, 35.305587

DMS

35° 18' 20.1132" N

25° 33' 51.3936" E

W3W	amphibious, undervalued, patches
UTM	35 S, 369472, 3907878
EGSA87	642068, 3907766

Elevation m	99
Elevation feet	324.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Langohr [2009], 83    ' ..., un cimetière ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Orsi [1890], 10    '...fu scoperta per urto dell'aratro una camera funebre tagliata nella roccia ...'
3.    Tomb.   Eaby [2007], 38    'From one tomb, called a chamber by Pendlebury, he published a flask/bottle ...'
4.    Tomb.   Pendlebury [1965], 324    'Tomb Vases from a chamber tomb.'
5.    Tomb.   Evans [1935], 164    'In a tomb at Milatos was found the pretty little flask, Fig. 123, with a serpent coiled round its neck, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 83, ' ... chacune des phases MR IIIA, MR IIIB, MR IIIC ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 83, 'Le style de ce décor est défini comme MR IIIA1-2 par A. Furumark ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 83, 'Le style de ce décor est défini comme MR IIIA1-2 par A. Furumark ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 83, ' ... chacune des phases MR IIIA, MR IIIB, MR IIIC ...'

5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 83, ' ... chacune des phases MR IIIA, MR IIIB, MR IIIC ...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 39, Evans mentions purchasing other vessels of "a late Cretan Geometrical class" from the site, ...
    b.    Pendlebury [1965]: 324,
    c.    Evans [1935]: 164, Implied. Evans says: 'There is further evidence, moreover, of the persistence of this influence in Crete to an advanced Geometrical Greek date.'

7. Middle Geometric: (850 BC - 760 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 39, 'Coldstream dates an oinochoe to MG which he states came from a tomb at Milatos, ...'

NOTES

1. Placed near Hagios Phanourios (F4560). This follows Langohr [2009] 83, ' ... a été découvert au lieu-dit d'Aghios Fanourios.'

2. This is a cemetery of six tombs, some of them chamber tombs, cut into the rock.

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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., '13. Milatos', pg. 38. Online here.

2. Evans [1935]: Evans, Sir Arthur. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, iv, 1. Macmillan, London., '', pg. 164. Online here.

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., '2.2.3. Milatos', pg. 83. Online here.

4. Orsi [1890]: Orsi, Paolo. ‘Urne Funebri Cretesi Dipinte nello Stile di Micene’, Monumenti antichi (R. Accademia dei Lincei), vol. I, pp. 201-230. 1889-1892., 'Scoperte di Milatos', pg. 10. Online here.

5. Pendlebury [1965]: Pendlebury, John D.. The Archaeology of Crete. Norton, 1965., 'SITES WHERE GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND', pg. 323.