Site details

Sisamos: Cem

PK	C5945
TITLE	Sisamos: Cem
WGS84	35.507796° N, 27.217662° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.507796, 27.217662
LON/LAT	27.217662, 35.507796

DMS

35° 30' 28.0656" N

27° 13' 3.5832" E

W3W	uneaten, defer, conifers
UTM	35 S, 519739, 3929380
EGSA87	791694, 3933832

Elevation m	33
Elevation feet	108.3
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Karpathos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Melas [1985], 30    'From the same district, and perhaps from he (sic) same cemetery, comes the Minoan stone vase of the blossom type now possessed by Manolis Vozos at Pigadia ...'
2.    Tomb.   Simpson and Lazenby [1962], 160    '...especially in view of the proximity of the Mycenaean tombs.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 30, '...the Minoan stone vase ...'

2. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1962]: 160, '... a few which, if not actually Minoan, are of the M.M. IIIB or L.M. IA style; ...'

3. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1962]: 160, '... a few which, if not actually Minoan, are of the M.M. IIIB or L.M. IA style; ...'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1962]: 160, '...are of the Myc. IIIA ...'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1962]: 160, '... or Myc. IIIB periods.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'A11 Sisamos', pg. 30.

2. Simpson and Lazenby [1962]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 57, pp. 154-175, 1962., '', pg. 16. From sentence near top of page beginning: 'By reason of the abundance of later debris on the site ...'
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