Site details

Kamari: Gouva

PK	C173
TITLE	Kamari: Gouva
WGS84	37.293955° N, 21.78266° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.293955, 21.78266
LON/LAT	21.78266, 37.293955

DMS

37° 17' 38.238" N

21° 46' 57.576" E

W3W	piecing, gecko, fixate
UTM	34 S, 569369.59, 4127769.65
EGSA87	303309, 4129499

Elevation m	212
Elevation feet	695.5
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 465    'grande tholos pillée et détruite.'
2.    Tholos.   Boyd [2001], 212    'Tholos tomb more or less completely destroyed through illicit excavation.'
3.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 411    '...entdeckten McDonald und Hope Simpson auf einem Nord-Süd verlaufenden Hügelrücken eine durch Raubgräber zerstörte Tholos.'
4.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 137    '..practically no doubt that this was a large tholos tomb..'
5.    Tholos.   Messenia III, 137    '...there is practically no doubt that this was a large tholos tomb that was excavated...'
6.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 177    '...is a ruined LH tholos tomb.'
7.    Tholos.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 298    'Illicitly excavated tholos ...'

SITE SIZE

- Messenia III  p. 138,  Size: 12000 sq. m.  'Here LH pottery is spread over an area about 120 m. N-S by 100 m. ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 177, '...LH tholos tomb.'
    b.    Messenia III: 138, 'Here LH pottery is spread over an area about 120 m. N-S by 100 m. ...'

2. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 298, 'LHIII M'
    b.    Messenia III: 138, 'One LH III fragment is from a kylix base of good whitish fabric; ...'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 137, 'LH III(A-B)''

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 137, 'LH III(A-B)''

NOTES

1.  The reader will wish to refer to my .kml file of this area which may be safely downloaded from Google Drive here.

2.  For additional discussion about the exact location of this tholos see the blog post here.

3.  Every one of our authors simply repeats the report of McDonald and Simpson in Messenia III.

4.  This tomb is no. 236 in the Minnesota-Messenia Expedition documents.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, 'Unexcavated Tholos Tombs', pg. 212. Online here.

2. McDonald and Rapp [1972]: McDonald, William A. and George R. Rapp, Jr.. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 1972, '236 Kamari: Gouva', pg. 298.

3. Messenia III: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1964-1968’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 123-177., '23D. Gouva (Kamari)', pg. 137. Online here.

4. 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., 'Gouva', pg. 465. Online here.

5. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 209 Kamari: Gouva', pg. 137. Online here.

6. 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 236 Kamari: Gouva', pg. 177. Online here.

7. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'KAMARI/GOUVA (EP. TRIPHYLIAS)', pg. 411. Online here.