Site details

Kos: Eleona Cem

PK	C6744
TITLE	Kos: Eleona Cem
WGS84	36.887817° N, 27.27849° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	36.887817, 27.27849
LON/LAT	27.27849, 36.887817

DMS

36° 53' 16.1412" N

27° 16' 42.564" E

W3W	dining, fees, inferior
UTM	35 S, 524815.33, 4082463.86
EGSA87	792032, 4087160

Elevation m	14
Elevation feet	45.9
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Kos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Vitale [2012], 408    'The cemeteries of Elleona ...', ' ... a total of 83 chamber tombs, 22 from Eleona ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Vitale [2012]: 408, ' ... founded in LH II ... in use until advanced LH IIIC.'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Vitale [2012]: 408, ' ... in use until advanced LH IIIC.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Vitale [2012]: 408, ' ... in use until advanced LH IIIC.', '..., six (tombs, RHC) from Eleona ... were in use within LH IIIB ... '

4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Vitale [2012]: 408, ' ... in use until advanced LH IIIC.'

NOTE

1. Position of Eleona taken from Vitale [2012] plate XCb.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nosch and Laffineur(eds.) [2012]: Nosch, Marie-Louise and Robert Laffineur. KOSMOS; Jewellery, Adornment And Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age. . AEGAEUM 33. Annales liégeoises et PASPiennes d'archéologie égéenne. Peeters, Leuven-Liege. 2012, '',

2. Vitale [2012]: Vitale, Salvatore. ‘Dressing Up The Dead. The Significance of Late Helladic IIIB Adornments from Eleona and Langada at Kos’, In Nosch and Laffineur [2010] 407 - 414 and 16 plates., 'The Sites and Their Chronology', pg. 408. Online here.