Site details

Koumasa A

PK	C6268
TITLE	Koumasa A
WGS84	34.983292° N, 25.012951° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	34.983292, 25.012951
LON/LAT	25.012951, 34.983292

DMS

34° 58' 59.8512" N

25° 0' 46.6236" E

W3W	challenge, leafy, vibrato
UTM	35 S, 318629, 3872994
EGSA87	592305, 3871370

Elevation m	359
Elevation feet	1177.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Monophatsion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Herrero [2011], 56    'The Koumasa cemetery ... was excavted by Xanthoudides in 1904 and 1906 ... '
2.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 171    'The Mesara-type tombs are circular stone-built structures a number of which show traces of an original corbelled 'tholos' roof.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, ' ... : Area AB, EMII; ... '
    b.    Herrero [2011]: 62, ' ..., the general impression seems to be that the architectural layout and the material assemblage recovered provides us with a snapshot of the life of this cemetery during the early EM II period.'

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Herrero [2011]: 61, 'Sixteen seals were recovered from Tholos Alpha and 19 from Tholos Beta, including EM III - MM I examples ...; '

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, ' ...; Area D, EMII, MMI; ... '
    b.    Herrero [2011]: 61, 'Sixteen seals were recovered from Tholos Alpha and 19 from Tholos Beta, including EM III - MM I examples ...; '

4. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, ' ...; Area Z, MMIA-?B).'

5. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, 'Site perhaps still in use MMIB-II.'

6. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, 'Site perhaps still in use MMIB-II.'

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, '34. Koumasa A', pg. 187. Online here.

2. Herrero [2011]: Herrero, Borja Legarra. ‘3. The Secret Lives of the Early and Middle MinoanTholos Cemeteries: Koumasa and Platanos’, Murphy [2011] pp. 49-84., 'Koumasa', pg. 56. Online here.