Site details

Gonia: Cem

PK	C920
TITLE	Gonia: Cem
WGS84	37.908563° N, 22.927385° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.908563, 22.927385
LON/LAT	22.927385, 37.908563

DMS

37° 54' 30.8268" N

22° 55' 38.586" E

W3W	decent, exposure, adjusts
UTM	34 S, 669437.05, 4197421.31
EGSA87	405560, 4195925

Elevation m	65
Elevation feet	213.3
Region	Corinthia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Kassimi [2015], 504    'Bronze arrowheads, stone spindle whorls, beads from necklaces, clay figurines, and whole vessels were among the finds '
2.    Artifacts.   BCH Online, 4504    'Figurines include one of a woman kneading or washing at a basin.'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Tartaron et al. [2006], 458
4.    Chamber Tomb.   Kassimi [2015], 504    ' ... an early, rich chamber tomb including 139 objects ... '
5.    Chamber Tomb.   BCH Online, 4504    'Mycenaean chamber tombs discovered during illegal excavations at nearby Gyriza likely relate to the Gonia settlement.'
6.    Pottery.   BCH Online, 4504    ' ..., fine quality vases including Vapheio cups, kylikes and goblets, alabastra, stirrup jars, semi-globular cups. An imported, probably Argive amphoriskos with applied decoration is noted.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Tartaron et al. [2006]: 458, 'Mycenaean chamber tombs'
    b.    BCH Online: 4504, 'Mycenaean chamber tombs ... '

2. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Kassimi [2015]: 504, 'The finds date from the LH IIB-LH IIIBl period.'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Kassimi [2015]: 504, 'The finds date from the LH IIB-LH IIIBl period.'

4. LH IIIB1: (1320 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Kassimi [2015]: 504, 'The finds date from the LH IIB-LH IIIBl period.'

NOTES

1.  I want to thank Ms. Sophie Cushman of Berkeley for alerting me to the Kassimi [2015] paper. Additionally thanks go to Dimitri Nakassis who kindly furnished me with a copy of it.

2.  The position of C920 is based on the map in Tartaron et al. [2006] 458, Fig. 2 where the 'Mycenaean chamber tombs' are clearly labelled.

3.  In BCH Online, no. 4504, we read 'Mycenaean chamber tombs discovered during illegal excavation at nearby Gyriza likely relate to the Gonia settlement.' On this basis I associate this report with the chamber tombs in the valley between the Yiriza ridge and the Gonia ridge.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Gonia - 2003', no. 4504. Online here.

2. Kassimi [2015]: Kassimi, Panagiota. ‘The Mycenaean cemeteries of north-eastern Corinthia and the early tholos tomb at Ancient Corinth’, In Schallin and Tournavitou [2015], pp. 503-514., 'Gyriza Examilion', pg. 504.

3. Schallin and Tournavitou [2015]: Schallin, Ann-Louise and Iphiyenia Tournavitou (eds.). Mycenaeans up to date; The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese - Current concepts and new directions. ACTA INSTITUTI ATHENIENSIS REGNI SUECIAE, SERIES IN 4°, 56, Stockholm, 2015., '',

4. Tartaron et al. [2006]: Thomas F. Tartaron, Daniel J. Pullen, Timothy E. Gregory, Jay S. Noller, Richard M. Rothaus, William R. Caraher, Joseph L. Rife, David K. Pettegrew, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Dimitri Nakassis, Robert Schon. ‘The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey; Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape’, Hesperia, 75, pp. 453-523, 2006, 'Figure 2', pg. 458. Online here.