Valta: Kastraki: Tholos
| PK | C194 |
| TITLE | Valta: Kastraki: Tholos |
| WGS84 | 37.099995° N, 21.628463° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 37.099995, 21.628463 |
| LON/LAT | 21.628463, 37.099995 |
| DMS | 37° 5' 59.982" N | , | 21° 37' 42.4668" E |
| W3W | clunked, range, mediators |
| UTM | 34 S, 555845, 4106150 |
| EGSA87 | 289100, 4108309 |
| Elevation m | 221 |
| Elevation feet | 725.1 |
| Region | Messenia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Mound
TYPE
1. Chamber Tomb. Zavadil [2012], 602 'ein Kuppel- oder Kammergrab'2. Mound. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 147 ' ..., road widening seems to have destroyed a LH tholos or chamber tomb.'
3. Mound. Boyd [2001], 159 ' ...: a middle Helladic burial mound ... '
4. Tholos. Simpson [1981], 122 '...road widening seems to have destroyed a LH tholos or chamber tomb.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
a. Boyd [2001]: 159, ' ...: a middle Helladic burial mound ... '
2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. Simpson [1981]: 122, ' ..., road widening seems to have destroyed a LH tholos or chamber tomb.'
b. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 147, 'A few LH sherds were seen here and vases are reported to have been taken to Chora museum.'
NOTES
1. This blog post by RHC examines the geography of Valta in detail.
2. 'No sign of a burial mound was located, although some areas were almost inaccessible in dense shrub.' And p. 160: ' ...: the destroyed mound reported by McDonald & Hope Simpson is certainly the damaged mound or tholos located by PRAP (i.e. C441, RHC). The MH mound reported by McDonald & Hope Simpson may well simply have been a natural feature exhibiting sherds from the settlement.'
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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, '29: Válta Kastráki', pg. 159.
Online here.
2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 50 Valta: Ayios Pandeleimon and Kastraki', pg. 122.
Online here.
3. 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 58 Valta: Kastraki', pg. 147.
Online here.
4. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'VALTA/PHTEROLAKKA (EP. TRIPHYLIAS)', pg. 602.
Online here.