Site details

Moni Mantzari

PK	C1212
TITLE	Moni Mantzari
WGS84	38.570889° N, 24.146667° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	38.570889, 24.146667
LON/LAT	24.146667, 38.570889

DMS

38° 34' 15.2004" N

24° 8' 48.0012" E

W3W	turfs, sacking, youth
UTM	35 S, 251416, 4273020
EGSA87	512628, 4268882

Elevation m	180
Elevation feet	590.6
Region	Euboea

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Built Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 232    'A robbed "chamber tomb" (perhaps a built tomb like those of F 93)...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Fachard [2012], 324    ' ... une tombe à chambre ... '
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Hankey [1952], 60    'In 1939 at Moni Mantzari near Oxylithos there was a looted chamber tomb.'
4.    Chamber Tomb.   Sackett et al. [1966], 74    'Hankey reported the discovery of a robbed L.H. IIIA chamber tomb in 1939.'
5.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 57    '... which may have been a built tomb of the tholos type, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Sackett et al. [1966]: 74, '...a robbed L.H. IIIA chamber tomb...'
    b.    Fachard [2012]: 324, ' ... (Helladique Récent IIIA) ... '
    c.    Hankey [1952]: 60, 'There were two L.H. IIIA pots from this tomb in the school at Oxylithos.'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 57, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 232, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B) C', '...: one (vase, RHC) is definitely and one probably LH IIIA1...,'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 57, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 232, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B) C'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 57, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 232, 'LH IIIA1 LH III(A2-B) C'

NOTE

1. Of this tomb Fachard [2012] 324 says ' ..., dont il ne subsiste aucune trace.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Fachard [2012]: Fachard, Sylvian. La Défense du Territoire; Étude de la Chora Érétrienne et de ses Fortifications, École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce. InFolio Editions, CH-Gollion. 2012, '117. Moni Mantzari', pg. 324. Online here.

2. Hankey [1952]: Hankey, V.. ‘Late Helladic Tombs at Khalkis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (47), pp. 49-95. 1952., 'footnote 14b', pg. 60. Online here.

3. Sackett et al. [1966]: Sackett, L.H., and V. Hankey, R.J. Howell, T.W. Jacobsen, M.R. Popham. ‘Prehistoric Euboea: Contributions toward a Survey’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 61, pp. 33-112, [1966], '77. Oxylithos: Moni Mantzari.', pg. 74. Online here.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'B 77 Oxylithos: Moni Mantzari', pg. 57. Online here.

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., 'F 94 Oxylithos: Moni Mantzari', pg. 232. Online here.