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Mycenae: The Museum Site (House of the Tripod Tomb)

PKC6612
TITLEMycenae: The Museum Site (House of the Tripod Tomb)
WGS84 37.73177393° N, 22.75611243° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 37.73177393, 22.75611243
LON/LAT 22.75611243, 37.73177393

DMS 37° 43' 54.3861" N,22° 45' 22.0047" E

W3Wshepherdess, lull, inviting
UTM34 S, 654748, 4177507
EGSA87 390242, 4176496

Elevation m219
Elevation feet 718.5
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Iakovidis et al. [2003],     'A building complex extending over a narrow area of ca. 450m^2 at the foot of the N slope of the citadel.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 54, ' ..., including a LH II child's grave.'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 54, 'Built early in LH IIIB ... '

3. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Iakovidis et al. [2003]: 54, ' ... this complex was destroyed or, at least, damaged in advanced LH IIIB2, probably by an earthquake.'

NOTE

1.  Additional: Artemis Onassoglou, He oikia tou tafou ton tripodon stis Mykenes (The House of the Tripod Tomb in Mycenae), Athens by He en Athenais Archaiologike Hetaireia. 1995.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Iakovidis et al. [2003]:  Iakovidis, Spyros, and Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, John Lavery. Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae. The Archaeological Society at Athens Library, no. 229. 2003., 'D4G - Myc; Museum Area', pg. 54. In Iakovidis et al. [2003] as D4G

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6612 is at 37.59085° N, 22.77148° E, a straight-line distance of 15 km and 746 m.