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Arkhanes: Tholos E

PKC6296
TITLEArkhanes: Tholos E
WGS84 35.24482° N, 25.158777° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.24482, 25.158777
LON/LAT 25.158777, 35.24482

DMS 35° 14' 41.352" N,25° 9' 31.5972" E

W3Wrapids, comrades, study
UTM35 S, 332478, 3901747
EGSA87 605278, 3900520

Elevation m426
Elevation feet 1397.6
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tomb

TYPE

1.    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 IIA: (2650 BC - 2450 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 180, 'Dating: EMIIA, ... '

2. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 180, ' ..., MMIA - ?II; ... '

3. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 180, ' ..., MMIA - ?II; ... '

4. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 180, ' ..., MMIA - ?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, '5. Arkhanes E', pg. 180. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6296 is at 35.33291° N, 25.19375° E, a straight-line distance of 10 km and 276 m.