Site details
Kato Trapeza: Pithos Burial
| PK | C7229 |
| TITLE | Kato Trapeza: Pithos Burial |
| WGS84 | 38.224257° N, 22.031293° E |
| Accuracy | 50 m. |
| LAT/LON | 38.224257, 22.031293 |
| LON/LAT | 22.031293, 38.224257 |
| DMS | 38° 13' 27.3252" N | , | 22° 1' 52.6548" E |
| W3W | dropped, untiring, forever |
| UTM | 34 S, 590269.5, 4231199.97 |
| EGSA87 | 327523, 4232242 |
| Elevation m | 355 |
| Elevation feet | 1164.7 |
| Region | Achaea |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb
TYPE
1. Tomb. AD[2000], 326 ' ... ταφικός πίθος.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. AD[2000]: , ' ... χρονολογηθεί στα υστερογεωμετρικά χρόνια.'
NOTE
1. It seems a bit odd for ADelt to locate the tomb west ( ... 100 μ. δυτικά της εκκλησίας του Προφήτη Ηλία, ...) of Prophitis Elias (F798) as this would place it way below the church near the bottom of the cliff. If that were the case it would seem more natural to give directions to the burial from the road on its west. Others have read the word 'δυτικά ' as 'ανατολή' and located this pithos burial on top of the plateau to the E of Prophitis Ilias. With some misgivings I have chosen to take the ADelt at its word. I have had the opportunity to look at the map in Borgna and De Angeli [2020], 147, Fig. 8.1.1 (inset) which does seem to show a find at about the marked position.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. AD[2000]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 55, '', pg. 326.
2. Borgna and De Angeli [2020]: Borgna, Elisabetta and Gaspare De Angeli. ‘The Chamber Tombs of the Trapeza, Aigion; Preliminary Observations on the Complex Funerary Rituals of a Small Mycenaean Community’, in Murphy [2020], pp. 145 ff., '',
3. Murphy [2020]: Murphy, Joanne M.A. (ed.). Death in Late Bronze Age Greece; Variations on a Theme. Oxford University Press 2020, '', Online here.