Controls Help Blog
Site details

Mavrata: Kotronia

PKC602
TITLEMavrata: Kotronia
WGS84 38.071465° N, 20.727919° E
Accuracy 200 m.

LAT/LON 38.071465, 20.727919
LON/LAT 20.727919, 38.071465

DMS 38° 4' 17.274" N,20° 43' 40.5084" E

W3Waged, developer, inherent
UTM34 S, 476135, 4213779
EGSA87 212811, 4218514

Elevation m169
Elevation feet 554.5
RegionIonian Islands
SubregionKephalonia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 158    'A Mycenaean chamber tomb was discovered in 1936 at Kotronia near Mavrata. The finds remain unpublished, ... '
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Pelon [1976], 257    Pelon prefers to refer to these tholoid-like tombs as Chamber Tombs. '...les tombes à chambre dont la partie supérieure est construite in pierres à la maniere d'une coupole de tholos.'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 189    'A chamber tomb was excavated in 1936 at Kotronia near Mavrata.'
4.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 158    '... many LH IIIC vases found in the tomb are displayed in the Argostoli Museum.'
5.    Pottery.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 45    'The excavation produced seventy vases.'
6.    Tholos.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 45    .. a tholos tomb, known by the locals as 'ta archaia', ...
7.    Tomb.   AD[1995], 243    


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    AD[1995]: 243,

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 45, 'Several vases are LH IIIB/C or early LH IIIC. ... They indicate that the early part of LH IIIC was the period of most intensive use of the tholos.'

3. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 158, 'The finds remain unpublished, but many LH IIIC vases found in the tomb are displayed in the Argostoli Museum.'
    b.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 45, 'Several vases are LH IIIB/C or early LH IIIC. ... They indicate that the early part of LH IIIC was the period of most intensive use of the tholos.'
    c.    Pelon [1976]: 257, '...doit être corrigée en fonction de la date HR IIIC proposée par Desborough pour cette céramique.'
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 189, '...many LH IIIC vases found in it are displayed in the Argostoli Museum.'

NOTE

1.  'A Mycenaean chamber tomb was discovered in 1936 at Kotronia near Mavrata.'

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  AD[1995]:  Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 50, '', pg. 243.

2.  Pelon [1976]:  Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '49. Mavrata', pg. 257. Online here.

3.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'G 23 Mavrata: Kotronia', pg. 158. Online here.

4.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'E 27 Kephallenia: Mavrata: Kotronia', pg. 189. Online here.

5.  Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]:  Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina. The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 3000-800 B.C.. Liverpool University Press. 1999. , 'Mavrata-Triantamodoi', pg. 45. This seems to be the same as Simpson [1981] 158, 'G 23 Mavrata: Kotronia'
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C602 is at 38.06523° N, 20.72632° E, a straight-line distance of 707.8 m.