Site details

Argos: Mycenaean Cemetery Central

PK	C970
TITLE	Argos: Mycenaean Cemetery Central
WGS84	37.641021° N, 22.720503° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.641021, 22.720503
LON/LAT	22.720503, 37.641021

DMS

37° 38' 27.6756" N

22° 43' 13.8108" E

W3W	cloak, rope, crashing
UTM	34 S, 651795, 4167379
EGSA87	386966, 4166469

Elevation m	54
Elevation feet	177.2
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Foley [1988], 174    'The Deiras cemetery also began to be excavated .. yielding tombs of the Mycenaean period.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Philippa-Touchais [2015], 449    '... the central and northern clusters comprise chamber tombs XI-XXXVI bis and all pit- and cist-graves, excavated by Deshayes;'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 174, '... Argos' most important prehistoric remains date to the MH...'

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Philippa-Touchais [2015]: 463, '... none of the chamber tombs, pit and cist graves of the central and northern clusters seems to have been established prior to LH III.'

NOTE

1. This is the central cluster of an extensive Myc. burial site.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Foley [1988]: Foley, Anne. The Argolid 800-600 B.C.: An Archaeological Survey : Together with an Index of Sites from the Neolithic to the Roman Period. Göteborg : P. Åströms Förlag, 1988., '9. Argos', pg. 172.

2. Philippa-Touchais [2015]: Philippa-Touchais, Anna, Deiras. ‘Argos: The Mycenaean cemetery revisited in the light of unpublished finds from W.Vollgraff's excavations’, Schallin and Tournavitou [2015], pp. 449-467, 'Topography and Location of the Tombs', pg. 449.