Site details

Kamini

PK	C1173
TITLE	Kamini
WGS84	37.110983° N, 25.386217° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.110983, 25.386217
LON/LAT	25.386217, 37.110983

DMS

37° 6' 39.5388" N

25° 23' 10.3812" E

W3W	dreaming, fancied, spent
UTM	35 S, 356616, 4108403
EGSA87	623016, 4107795

Elevation m	33
Elevation feet	108.3
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Naxos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Barber [1981], 18    'A cemetery close to Aplomata with chamber tombs and some uncanonical burials.'
2.    Cem.   Vlachopoulos [2008], 523    'The chamber tomb cemeteries on the hills of Aplomata and Kamini are the only complete LH IIIC burial complexes in the Cyclades (Kardara, 1977; Vlachopoulos 2006).'
3.    Cem.   PAE[1939], 119
4.    Cem.   AD[1960], 249
5.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 326    ' ..., a separate cemetery at Kamini ... '
6.    Chamber Tomb.   Schallin [1993], 20    'Kamini is one of the chamber tomb cemeteries belonging to the settlement of Grotta.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic III: (1420 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 20, 'The tombs all date to the late LBA' Schallin [1993] encompasses the LC III in her term 'LBA', p. 8, Table 1.'

2. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Vlachopoulos [2008]: 523, '... are the only complete LH IIIC burial complexes ...'
    b.    Vlachopoulos [2008]: 523, '...and has its final phase in the LH IIIC Late period.'
    c.    PAE[1939]: 119,
    d.    AD[1960]: 249,
    e.    Barber [1981]: 18, 'Used only in LH IIIC.'
    f.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 326, ' ..., a separate cemetery at Kamini ... is of LH IIIC date, ... '

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    PAE[1939]: 119,
    b.    AD[1960]: 249,

NOTE

1. See the detailed map of Mycenaean finds in the Naxos city area on p. 329 in 'Naxos, the largest Cycladic island with a single polis; A survey through ancient times' by Alexandra S. Sfyroera in Cycladic Archaeology and Research; New approaches and discoveries, Erica Angliker and John Tully (edd.), Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 2018. It is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. PAE[1939]: Praktika tes en Athenais Arkhaiologikes Hetaireias. 1939., '', pg. 119.

2. AD[1960]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 15, '', pg. 249.

3. Barber [1981]: Barber, R.L.N.. ‘The Late Cycladic Period: A Review’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (76), pp. 1-21, 1981., '27. Kamini (Naxos ... )', pg. 18. Online here.

4. Schallin [1993]: Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '34. Kamini', pg. 20.

5. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Grotta (with Palati, Aplomata, Kamini)', pg. 325. Online here.

6. Vlachopoulos [2008]: Vlachopoulos, A.. ‘A Late Mycenaean Journey from Thera to Naxos: Cyclades in the 12 th century B.C.’, In Brodie et al. (eds.) [2008], 479-491., 'The Cemeteries', pg. 523. Online here.