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Parga: Kiperi Tholos

PK	C1355
TITLE	Parga: Kiperi Tholos
WGS84	39.288645° N, 20.426173° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	39.288645, 20.426173
LON/LAT	20.426173, 39.288645

DMS

39° 17' 19.122" N

20° 25' 34.2228" E

W3W	copes, dizzied, calculations
UTM	34 S, 450513.67, 4348965.55
EGSA87	191607, 4354613

Elevation m	192
Elevation feet	629.9
Region	Epirus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Cem.   PAE[1960], 123
2.    Tholos.   Papadopoulos [1981], 7    ' ... eines Tholos-Grabs ... '
3.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 257    'La tholos est située à environ 3 km à l'Est de Parga, au lieu-dit Kipéri,...'
4.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 177    'The small tholos tomb found here is the furthest to the northwest of all Mycenaean tholos tombs, and one of the most remote.'
5.    Tholos.   Kleitsas [2014], 1    'The only tholos tomb of Epirus ... at Kiperi in Parga ... is a direct example of an imported Mycenaean burial custom.'
6.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 300    'A small tholos tomb found here is the furthest to the NW of all such tombs ...'
7.    Tomb.   Syriopoulos [1995], 960
8.    Tumulus.   Hammond [1967], 313    '...a Mycenaean tholos tomb was discovered in 1937 in a district called Kiperi...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Hammond [1967]: 313, '...a Mycenaean tholos tomb...'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 177, 'LB LH IIIA1? LH IIIA2-B LH IIIC? C H'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    PAE[1960]: 123,
    b.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 960,
    c.    Kleitsas [2014]: 1, 'The tomb is dated from the Late Helladic IIIA-B period.'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 177, 'LB LH IIIA1? LH IIIA2-B LH IIIC? C H'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 300, 'LHIIIA1?'
    c.    Papadopoulos [1981]: 23, ' ... eine SH III A1 (oder auch frühere) Datierung für den Grabbau annehmen.'
    d.    Papadopoulos [1981]: 12, Many examples. See catalogue on pp. 12 - 22.

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 177, 'LB LH IIIA1? LH IIIA2-B LH IIIC? C H'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 300, 'LHIIIA2-B', 'The LH sherds ... certainly include LH IIIA2-B types ...'
    c.    Papadopoulos [1981]: 14, Pg. 14, examples 14, 15, pg. 16, examp. 17.

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 177, 'LB LH IIIA1? LH IIIA2-B LH IIIC? C H'
    b.    Pelon [1976]: 257, '...peut ètre datée de l'HR IIIB.'
    c.    PAE[1960]: 123,
    d.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 960,
    e.    Kleitsas [2014]: 1, 'The tomb is dated from the Late Helladic IIIA-B period.'
    f.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 300, 'LHIIIA2-B', 'The LH sherds ... certainly include LH IIIA2-B types ...'
    g.    Hammond [1967]: 313, '...and sherds of Mycenaean III B ware were found.'
    h.    Papadopoulos [1981]: 24, ' ... wohl bis zum Ende von SH III B, benutzt worden ist.'
    i.    Papadopoulos [1981]: 16, Pg. 16, example 17.

7. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 177, 'LB LH IIIA1? LH IIIA2-B LH IIIC? C H'
    b.    PAE[1960]: 123,
    c.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 960,
    d.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 300, 'LHIIIC?'

NOTE

1. The position of this tholos tomb is partly fixed based on a user contribution from wikimapia.org."

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. PAE[1960]: Praktika tes en Athenais Arkhaiologikes Hetaireias. 1960., '', pg. 123.

2. Hammond [1967]: Hammond, N.G.L.. Epirus; The geography, the ancient remains, the history and the topography of Epirus and adjacent areas. . Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967., '', pg. 313.

3. Kleitsas [2014]: Kleitsas, Christos. ‘The Bronze Age in Epirus (Part 3); The Late Bronze Age: The Burial Customs’, archaeology & arts, Oct. 20, 2014., 'The Bronze Age in Epirus', pg. 1. Online here.

4. Papadopoulos [1981]: Papadopoulos, A.. ‘Das mykenische Kuppelgrab von Kiperi bei Parga (Epirus)’, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung (96) 7-24. 1981., '', pg. 7. Online here.

5. 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., '48. Parga', pg. 257. Online here.

6. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'K 2 (= L 2) Parga: Kiperi', pg. 177. Online here.

7. 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., 'K 2 Parga: Kiperi', pg. 300. Online here.

8. Syriopoulos [1995]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Γενικος Συνοπτικος Καταλογος Των Περιεχομενων και των Δυο Τομων: Δευτερος Τομος. Athens: Athens Archaeological Society. 1995., '', pg. 960.