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Platanos: Tholos

PKC6093
TITLEPlatanos: Tholos
WGS84 35.022762° N, 24.921043° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.022762, 24.921043
LON/LAT 24.921043, 35.022762

DMS 35° 1' 21.9432" N,24° 55' 15.7548" E

W3Wmechanic, nurturing, atoms
UTM35 S, 310330, 3877543
EGSA87 583876, 3875666

Elevation m100
Elevation feet 328.1
RegionCrete
SubregionKainourion





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Myers et al. [1992], 248    'The tholos tombs of Platanos show the remarkable prosperity of the inhabitants of the Mesara plain in Prepalatial and Old Palatial times.'
2.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 193    ' ... Mesara-type tombs'
3.    Tomb.   Pelon [1976], 32    ' ... les grandes tombes circulaires, ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 250, 'EM II - MM II cemetery; ... ', 'EM II - MM II Three tholos tombs (Tomb (alpha), Tomb (beta), and half-destroyed Tomb (gamma) ... ) ... '
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 193, For tholos A: 'EMII, ...'
    c.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos C: 'EMII, ...'

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 193, For tholos A: ' ..., EMIII/MMIA, ...'
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos B: 'EMIII/MMIA, ... '
    c.    Pelon [1976]: 33, For tomb B: 'Selon lui (Xanthoudides, RHC), la tombe B, nettement plus récente que la tombe A, a pu être construite au MA III ...'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 250, 'EM II - MM II cemetery; ... ', 'EM II - MM II Three tholos tombs (Tomb (alpha), Tomb (beta), and half-destroyed Tomb (gamma) ... ) ... '
    b.    Pelon [1976]: 33, For tomb B: ' ... et sa période principale d'utilsation se situe au MM I.'

4. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 193, For tholos A: ' ..., EMIII/MMIA, ...'
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos C: ' ..., MMIA, MMIB.'
    c.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos B: 'EMIII/MMIA, ... '

5. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 193, For tholos A: ' ..., MMIB -? MMII.'
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos C: ' ..., MMIA, MMIB.'
    c.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos B: ' ..., MMIB -? MMII.'

6. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 250, 'EM II - MM II cemetery; ... ', 'EM II - MM II Three tholos tombs (Tomb (alpha), Tomb (beta), and half-destroyed Tomb (gamma) ... ) ... '
    b.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 193, For tholos A: ' ... -?MMII.'
    c.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, For tholos B: ' ..., MMIB -? MMII.'

7. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 250, 'LM I Final use of house-tombs.', '...; some LM I use.'

NOTE

1.  Drawings of tombs A and B may be found in Pelon, op. cit., plate XII.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Goodison and Guarita [2005]:  Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita. ‘A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005, '57. Platanos A', pg. 193. And, in Goodison and Guarita, see section 58. Platanos B and, on p. 194, 59. Platanos C.
Online here.

2.  Myers et al. [1992]:  Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '35 PLATANOS', pg. 248.

3.  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., '20. Platanos', pg. 32. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6093 is at 34.93252° N, 24.93482° E, a straight-line distance of 10 km and 92 m.