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Prosymna: Tholos

PKC834
TITLEProsymna: Tholos
WGS84 37.695997° N, 22.769915° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.695997, 22.769915
LON/LAT 22.769915, 37.695997

DMS 37° 41' 45.5892" N,22° 46' 11.694" E

W3Wextroverted, shattering, disclaims
UTM34 S, 656039, 4173560
EGSA87 391406, 4172510

Elevation m108
Elevation feet 354.3
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 19    '... a tholos tomb, the largest (diameter 9.5 m.) in the Argolid outside Mycenae.'
2.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 176    'La tholos de l'Héraion d'Argos est située à 1 km à l'Ouest du santuaire ...' In fact, it is 539 m. and exactly (315 degrees) NW from the NW corner of the Heraion.


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 177, '...est datée par Wace de l'HR II d'après des fragments céramiques qu'il compare à des vases des tholoi de Kakovatos.'

2. LH IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 19, 'The small amount of pottery found in the tomb all seems to be of the LH IIA period.'

NOTES

1.  For a detailed diagram of the Prosymna complex see Cavanaugh and Mee [1998] 198, fig. 5.5.

2.  Together with C835, C836, C837, C838, C839, and C6555.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Cavanagh and Mee [1998]:  Cavanagh, William and Christopher Mee. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (CCXXV). Paul Aströms Förlag, Jonsered. Sweden. 1998., '', pg. 198.

2.  Pelon [1976]:  Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '2. L'Heraion d'Argos', pg. 176. Online here.

3.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 6 Prosymna: The Ancient Argive Heraion, 3. The Tholos Tomb', pg. 18. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C834 is at 37.59085° N, 22.77148° E, a straight-line distance of 11 km and 706 m.