Site details

Daras: Cem

PK	C154
TITLE	Daras: Cem
WGS84	37.024455° N, 21.898239° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.024455, 21.898239
LON/LAT	21.898239, 37.024455

DMS

37° 1' 28.038" N

21° 53' 53.6604" E

W3W	reduction, stormy, porpoise
UTM	34 S, 579897, 4097962
EGSA87	312892, 4099362

Elevation m	163
Elevation feet	534.8
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Boyd [2001], 165    'Description: tholos tomb.'
2.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 157    'A tholos tomb was excavated within the territory of Dara but c. 1.5 km. to SE of Viglitsa, ... '
3.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 126    'A tholos tomb has recently been found ...within the territory of Dara ... '
4.    Tholos.   McDonald et al. [1975], 137    ' ... led to the identification of still another tholos tomb.'
5.    Tholos.   Boehringer [2001], 272    'Dieses Kuppelgrab liegt etwa 3 km (nordwestlich) von Nichoria unmittelbar westlich der Straße, die auf einem Bergrücken von Dafni nach Daras führt, ...
6.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 359     on 359 ".. obwohl die Tholos, die dem Grundbesitzer V. Kapsambelis lange Jahre als Steinbruch gedient hatte, in stark ruinösem Zustand war."

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 360, i.e., for the construction
    b.    Boyd [2001]: 165, '" ... construction of the tomb in LHII is very probable because of the presence of certain characteristic details."'

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Boehringer [2001]: 272, 'In mykenischer Zeit ...'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 165, 'Chronology: finds dated to LHIIIA-B, ... '

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 165, 'Chronology: finds dated to LHIIIA-B, ... '

NOTE

1. See W.A. McDonald et al., 'Excavations at Nichoria in Messenia: 1972-1973', Hesperia (44:1) 69-141, esp. page 137 and fn. 55 on that page. Online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Boehringer [2001]: Boehringer, David. Heroenkulte in Griechenland von der geometrischen bis zur klassischen Zeit: Attika, Argolis, Messenien. Klio Beihefte, Neue Reihe, Bd. 3, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2001., '4.1.11. Dafni-Daras', pg. 272. Online here.

2. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, ''31: Dhára (Fráma)'', pg. 165. Online here.

3. McDonald et al. [1975]: McDonald, W.A. and C.T. Shay, Nancy Wilkie, R.Hope Simpson, William D.E. Coulson, William P. Donovan, Harriet Blitzer, J. Rosser, W.P. Donovan, Stanley Aschenbrenner, R.J. Howell, O.T.P.K. Dickinson, Helen Hughes-Brock, William D. Wade, Donald L. Wolberg, Frederick V. Grady, Robert E. Sloan, Jennifer Shay, George Rapp Jr., S.R.B. Cooke. ‘Excavations at Nichoria in Messenia: 1972-1973’, Hesperia (44), no. 1 (Jan.-Mar., 1975), pp. 69-141. American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 1975, '', pg. 137. Online here.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 104 Dara: Viglitsa', pg. 126. 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., 'D 114 Dara: Viglitsa', pg. 157. Online here.

6. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'DARAS/PHRAMA (EP. PYLIAS)', pg. 359. Describes habitat (C153) and tholos.
Online here.