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Vatheianos Kampos Tomb

PK	C6121
TITLE	Vatheianos Kampos Tomb
WGS84	35.323541° N, 25.244544° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.323541, 25.244544
LON/LAT	25.244544, 35.323541

DMS

35° 19' 24.7476" N

25° 14' 40.3584" E

W3W	scheme, quiver, consolation
UTM	35 S, 340436, 3910337
EGSA87	612972, 3909345

Elevation m	68
Elevation feet	223.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pedhiadha

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Eaby [2007], 133    'Pendlebury noted an SM/PG chambe tomb with dromos at this site, ... '
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Langohr [2009], 62    'Il s'agit d'une tombe à chambre creusée dans le roc ... '
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Pendlebury [1965], 314    'Larnax burial in chamber tomb.'
4.    tomb.   Kanta [1980], 44    ' ..., a well preserved tomb was found.'
5.    Tomb.   Syriopoulos [1983], 151    ' ... taphos ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 134, ' ..., though Kanta prefers the more likely date of LM IIIA-B.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 44, A motif on a sarcophagus dated by Furumark ' ... to LM III A 2 ... '
    b.    Langohr [2009]: 62, 'Le style du décor peint, composé d'une fleur de papyrus et d'un argonaute stylisés, correspond à la phase MR IIIA2 ... '

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 134, ' ..., though Kanta prefers the more likely date of LM IIIA-B.'
    b.    Langohr [2009]: 62, 'Un petit vase à étrier trapu de style MR IIIB appartient peut-être aussi à cette tombe et suggère une continuation de son utilisation au cours de cette phase ... '

4. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 134, ' ... may indicate an EIA reuse of the architecture for habitation, ... '

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1965]: 313, ' ... SUB-MINOAN AND PROTOGEOMETRIC'

6. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 134, 'Syriopoulos assigns the finds from this tomb to SM, ... '
    b.    Pendlebury [1965]: 313, ' ... SUB-MINOAN AND PROTOGEOMETRIC'
    c.    Syriopoulos [1983]: 151, ' ... hypominoikon chronon.'

NOTES

1.  Placed notionally one km. distant from the Chani Nirou site. Kanta's [1980] 44 directions '..., one kilometer to the north of the Nirou Villa, ...' are, of course, impossible.

2.  Eaby's [2007] 133 directions ' ... 1 km northeast of Nirou Chani.' are also impossible.

3.  See BCH (58) 272, fig. 40 for a photo of this famous larnax.

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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., '91. Vatheianos Kambos', pg. 133. Online here.

2. 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., 'The Vatheianos Kampos Tomb', pg. 44.

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., '2.1.6. Nirou Hani', pg. 61. Online here.

4. Pendlebury [1965]: Pendlebury, John D.. The Archaeology of Crete. Norton, 1965., 'SITES WHERE SUB-MINOAN AND PROTO-GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND; VATHEIANOS KAMPOS', pg. 313.

5. Syriopoulos [1983]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Eisagoge eis ten archaian elleniken Istorian. Oi Metabatikoi Chronoi Apo tes Mykenaikes eis ten Archaiken Periodon 1200-700 pch. Vol. 1. Athens. 1983., '89. Vatheianos Kampos', pg. 151. Greek language