Site details

Mouliana: Sellades

PK	C4157
TITLE	Mouliana: Sellades
WGS84	35.173076° N, 25.974451° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.173076, 25.974451
LON/LAT	25.974451, 35.173076

DMS

35° 10' 23.0736" N

25° 58' 28.0236" E

W3W	proprietary, clipboard, sock
UTM	35 S, 406613, 3892718
EGSA87	679655, 3893733

Elevation m	392
Elevation feet	1286.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Kanta [1980], 175    '...a small built rectangular tholos...'
2.    Tholos.   Eaby [2007], 76    'Two tholos tombs were excavated in 1903 by Xanthoudides at Sellades, ...'
3.    Tomb.   Desborough [1964/2007], 177    '...; there are two tombs.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Desborough [1964/2007]: 177, '...; the strong continuing influence of LM. III B is shown by comparison with a larnax from Episkopi.'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 76, 'Tomb B seems to be slightly earlier than Tomb A, and it likely dates to LM IIIB/C - IIIC.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 175, 'The LM III C date of this vase has been recently recognized ...'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 76, 'Tomb A ... appears to have been used in LM IIIC, ...'

3. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 77, '..., though some of the pottery may indicate an SM presence in the tomb.'

NOTES

1.  For more on Sellades see the Mouliana Project blog which is here. When Kanta [1980] 175 says 'The LM III C date of this vase has been recently recognized ...' she uses Desborough, Last Mycenaeans [1964/2007] 177 as her support. But the way I read this Desborough says nothing of the kind. At the place indicated he says '..., these vases cannot be related to the emergence of LM. III C.' The reader will want to be alerted to what appears to me to be a contradiction.

2.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

3.  Marker placed at 35° 10'23.1" N 25° 58'28.2" E following the Mouliana/Sellades website.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Desborough [1964/2007]: Desborough, V.R.d'A.. The Last Mycenaeans and Their Successors: An Archaeological Survey, c. 1200 - c. 1000 B.C.. Wipf & Stock, 2007. Originally published in 1964 by Oxford University Press. , '', pg. 177.

2. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '42. Mesa Mouliana', pg. 76. Online here.

3. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '7. Mouliana', pg. 175.