Dimini: Tholos B
| PK | C1686 |
| TITLE | Dimini: Tholos B |
| WGS84 | 39.362277° N, 22.893046° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 39.362277, 22.893046 |
| LON/LAT | 22.893046, 39.362277 |
| DMS | 39° 21' 44.1972" N | , | 22° 53' 34.9656" E |
| W3W | bind, wolf, relating |
| UTM | 34 S, 663089, 4358689 |
| EGSA87 | 404487, 4357278 |
| Elevation m | 24 |
| Elevation feet | 78.7 |
| Region | Pelasgiotis |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos
TYPE
1. Tholos. Pelon [1976], 246 'La tholos 2...'2. Tholos. Simpson [1981], 163 'The first was set into the north side of the spur.', Simpson is referring to the tholos at the NW base of the Dimini mound.
3. Tholos. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 275 ' ..., and two tholos tombs. One of these, set into the N side of the mound, was quite large (c. 8.3 m.) ... '
4. Tholos. Ålin [1962], 145 'Das eine Tholosgrab, Diam. 8,30 m, mit langem, schmalem Dromos und Entlastungsdreieck, ... '
5. Tholos. Wace and Thompson [1912], 82 'This is the tholos tomb in the hillock on which the prehistoric settlements stand.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 275, ? '..., and LH IIIA2-B is reported from the dromos of the Laminospito tomb; the other is unlikely to be much earlier.'
NOTE
1. The Laminospito tomb is C1272.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Ålin [1962]: Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Dimini', pg. 144.
2. 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., '39. Dimini', pg. 244.
Tholos B is '39B' in Pelon.
Online here.
3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 3 Dimini: Toumba', pg. 163.
Online here.
4. 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., 'H 3 Dhimini: Toumba', pg. 275.
Online here.
5. Wace and Thompson [1912]: Wace, Alan John Bayard and Maurice Scott Thompson. Prehistoric Thessaly; Being Some Account of Recent Excavations and Explorations in North-Eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the Borders of Macedonia. . Cambridge at the University Press, 1912., 'Tomb M3', pg. 82.
Online here.