Site details

Toumvos tou Kanalou

PK	C443
TITLE	Toumvos tou Kanalou
WGS84	37.055309° N, 21.614281° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	37.055309, 21.614281
LON/LAT	21.614281, 37.055309

DMS

37° 3' 19.1124" N

21° 36' 51.4116" E

W3W	unreliable, nutritional, internet
UTM	34 S, 554617, 4101184
EGSA87	287715, 4103382

Elevation m	93
Elevation feet	305.1
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Burial Mound.   Simpson [1981], 121    'About 400 m. to the southeast is a burial mound named "Toumvos tou Kanalou", ...', 'This is presumably a MH or Mycenaean tomb.'
2.    Burial Mound.   Messenia I, 237    'Ca. 400 m. to the S-E is the locally well-known "Toumvos tou Kanalou."'
3.    Grave.   Zavadil [2012], 598    ...Grabanlage...

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 121, 'This is presumably a MH or Mycenaean tomb.'
    b.    Messenia I: 237, 'The mound to the S-E may be a MH construction (cf. #43, #50).'
    c.    Zavadil [2012]: 598, 'Man fand mittel- und späthelladische, hellenistische und frühchristliche Keramik.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 121, 'This is presumably a MH or Mycenaean tomb.'
    b.    Zavadil [2012]: 598, 'Man fand mittel- und späthelladische, hellenistische und frühchristliche Keramik.'

NOTE

1. From S81, 121, F 43, (C206) 'About 400 m. to the southeast is a burial mound named 'Toumvos tou Kanalou', about 9 m. in diameter and 4 m. high, ..'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Messenia I: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '38. Kanalos (Gargaliani)', pg. 236. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 43 Gargaliani: Kanalos', pg. 121. Positioned in reference to 'C206', 400 m. to the southeast of C206
Online here.

3. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'Gargalianoi/Kanalos (Ep. Triphylias)', pg. 598. Online here.