Site details

Gritsa: Cem: Tholos A

PK	C1689
TITLE	Gritsa: Cem: Tholos A
WGS84	39.023105° N, 22.947358° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	39.023105, 22.947358
LON/LAT	22.947358, 39.023105

DMS

39° 1' 23.178" N

22° 56' 50.4888" E

W3W	realism, tailing, redoubts
UTM	34 S, 668577, 4321145
EGSA87	408729, 4319581

Elevation m	22
Elevation feet	72.2
Region	Magnesia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Rousioti [2018], 408    ' ...: beads of gold (Fig. 3), faience and cornelian,7 seals of steatite and ﬂuorite, stone cones (buttons or spindle whorls), items of bronze (arrow heads, pins, rings), and a few boar's tusks.'
2.    Lithics.   Rousioti [2018], 408    ' ..., seals of steatite and fluorite, stone cones (buttons or spindle whorls), ... '
3.    Pottery.   Rousioti [2018], 408    Jugs, amphoriskoi, alabastron, piriform jar, ring vase.
4.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 249    'C'est la mieux conservée des quatre tholoi du groupe de Gritsa.'
5.    Tholos.   Rousioti [2018], 407    ' ..., N. Verdelis uncovered in 1951 the ﬁrst tholos tomb (Tholos A).'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 251, 'La tholos A paraît avoir été utilisée de façon continue de l'HR IIIA2 a l'HR IIIC1; ...'

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 251, 'La tholos A paraît avoir été utilisée de façon continue de l'HR IIIA2 a l'HR IIIC1; ...'

3. LH IIIC1: (1190 BC - 1130 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 251, 'La tholos A paraît avoir été utilisée de façon continue de l'HR IIIA2 a l'HR IIIC1; ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Karantzali [2021]: Karantzali, Efi. Η ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑΤΟΥ ΜΥΚΗΝΑΪΚΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ; Πρόσφατα ευρήματακαι πορίσματα της έρευνας; THE PERIPHERYOF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD; Recent discoveries and research result. Ministry of Culture and Sports; General Directοrατε of Antiquities and Cultural Heritageephorate of Antiquities of Fthiotida and Evrytania; Athens 2021, '',

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., '41. Ptéléon', pg. 248. Online here.

3. Rousioti [2018]: Rousioti, Dimitra. ‘The Tholos Tombs at Pteleos (Gritsa and Ayioi Theodoroi), Magnesia and their Contribution to the Reconstruction of the Cultural Landscape of Mycenaean Thessaly’, In Karantzali (ed.) [2021] 407-416, 'Close to the Middle Bronze Age remains, ... ', pg. 407. Online here.