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Chamber Tombs: Ancient Theater of Lindos

PK	C7393
TITLE	Chamber Tombs: Ancient Theater of Lindos
WGS84	36.08997° N, 28.087133° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.08997, 28.087133
LON/LAT	28.087133, 36.08997

DMS

36° 5' 23.892" N

28° 5' 13.6788" E

W3W	maxims, aviation, couched
UTM	35 S, 597871.11, 3994474.5
EGSA87	867893, 4001379

Elevation m	50
Elevation feet	164
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1. Chamber Tomb. Zervaki [2019], 199 'In the fall of 2012, two rock-cut chamber tombs were found during clearing work for the implementation of the project "Enhancement of the Ancient Theater of Lindos" ... , in the area where the northern part of the theater koilon would have extended ... '
2. Pottery. Zervaki [2019], 208

1. Large stirrup jar, T1, 205 (illus. p. 208)
2. Skyphos, krateriskos, jug, T2, 207 (illus. p. 208)
3. Pin, spiral ring, spindle-whorl, T2, 207 (illus. p. 209)

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Zervaki [2019]: 219, ' ...; the pottery, difficult as it is to date, belongs between the middle of the 11th c. BC (the large stirrup-jarof T.1) and the early 10th c. BC (the bell-skyphos of T.2, probably imported from central Crete); ... '

2. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
a. Zervaki [2019]: 219, ' ...; the pottery, difficult as it is to date, belongs between the middle of the 11th c. BC (the large stirrup-jarof T.1) and the early 10th c. BC (the bell-skyphos of T.2, probably imported from central Crete); ... '

NOTE

1. For diagrams of tombs 1 and 2 see Fig. 2 in Zervaki [2019], p. 223.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Zervaki [2019]: Zervaki, F.. ‘Two new chamber tombs of the late 11th-early 10th c. BC in Lindos. A first presentation’, Πολυχρονάκου-Σγουρίτσα, ed. [2019], Πρακτικά Ημεριδα, pp. 199-222, '', pg. 199. Online here.

2. Πολυχρονάκου-Σγουρίτσα, ed. [2019]: Παναγιώτα Πολυχρονάκου-Σγουρίτσα. Πρακτικά Ημεριδας στη μνήμη του καθηγήτή Σπύρου Ιακωβίδη. Institoúto Biblíou-A. Kardamítsa, '',