Site details

Siderokamino

PK	C6301
TITLE	Siderokamino
WGS84	35.2744° N, 25.488071° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.2744, 25.488071
LON/LAT	25.488071, 35.2744

DMS

35° 16' 27.84" N

25° 29' 17.0556" E

W3W	improvements, consultancy, counteract
UTM	35 S, 362491, 3904522
EGSA87	635191, 3904200

Elevation m	145
Elevation feet	475.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pedhiadha

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Herrero [2014], 248    'Type: tholos.'
2.    Tholos.   Faure [1969], 180    ' ..., on voit la partie inférieure circulaire ... d'un ancienne tombe à tholos, ... '
3.    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]: 194, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMII-?MMIII.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 248, ' ... Other periods documented: EM II(?), EM III(?), MM II(?), MM III?'

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMII-?MMIII.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 248, ' ... Other periods documented: EM II(?), EM III(?), MM II(?), MM III?'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMII-?MMIII.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 248, 'Documented first use: MM I.'
    c.    Herrero [2014]: 248, 'Citations: Faure 1969, 180 n. 2, MM I; ... '
    d.    Faure [1969]: 180, 'Dedans et autour, nombreux tessons MM I.'

4. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMII-?MMIII.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 248, ' ... Other periods documented: EM II(?), EM III(?), MM II(?), MM III?'

5. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 194, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMII-?MMIII.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 248, ' ... Other periods documented: EM II(?), EM III(?), MM II(?), MM III?'

NOTES

1. The structure marked may be, in fact, a well (there appears to be another at 35.273729° N, 25.486057° E) but it does conform to the vague directions supplied by Goodison and Guarita.

2. For a photograph of this tholos see Faure [1969] 179, Fig. 4.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Faure [1969]: Faure, Paul. ‘Sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (93:1) 174-213. 1969., '', pg. 180. Footnote 2.
Online here.

2. 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, '62. Siderokamino', pg. 194. Online here.

3. Herrero [2014]: Herrero, Borja Legarra. Mortuary Behavior and Social Trajectories in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete. INSTAP Academic Press, March, 2014., '286. Siderokamino, Tholos', pg. 248.