Site details

Kritsa: Cem

PK	C6025
TITLE	Kritsa: Cem
WGS84	35.162962° N, 25.643682° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.162962, 25.643682
LON/LAT	25.643682, 35.162962

DMS

35° 9' 46.6632" N

25° 38' 37.2552" E

W3W	financial, presides, festers
UTM	35 S, 376476, 3891957
EGSA87	649549, 3892063

Elevation m	402
Elevation feet	1318.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Langohr [2009], 88    ' Deux petites tombes à chambre creusées dans la roche ont été découvertes dans les environs du village.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Kanta [1980], 134    '...from two chamber tombs found during construction work for a new road towards the plateau of Katharos.'
3.    Tholos.   Nowicki [2000], 123    'Two tholos tombs were excavated by Platon after they had been found during the construction of a new road leading from Kritsa to Katharo ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 134, 'LM III A is not very well represented in the material.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 88, ' ... est utilisée au cours du MR IIIA2/MR IIIB - ... '
    b.    Nowicki [2000]: 123, 'The first group (of pottery, RHC) dates to the LM IIIA2/IIIB ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 88, ' ... est utilisée au cours du MR IIIA2/MR IIIB - ... '
    b.    Langohr [2009]: 88, 'Un nombre important de poteries est retrouvé, dont la grande majorité correspond à la phase MR IIIB, essentiellement au début de cette phase ... '
    c.    Nowicki [2000]: 123, 'The first group (of pottery, RHC) dates to the LM IIIA2/IIIB ...'
    d.    Kanta [1980]: 136, ' ... a motif of alternating arcs common in III B ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 123, '...and the second (group of pottery, RHC) to the LM IIIB/IIIC period ...'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 137, 'The LM III C vases of the Kritsa group ...'

NOTES

1.  The town of Katharo is F4563.

2.  I believe that Nowicki [2000] 123 has made a rare slip here. He characterizes chamber tombs as tholoi.

3.  See this Aristeia page for more information about the Kritsa cemetery.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '7. Kritsa', pg. 134.

2. 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., '2.3.2. Kritsa', pg. 88. Online here.

3. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '46. Krista Kastello', pg. 120.