Site details

Xenotaphia

PK	C5082
TITLE	Xenotaphia
WGS84	35.091808° N, 25.430564° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.091808, 25.430564
LON/LAT	25.430564, 35.091808

DMS

35° 5' 30.5088" N

25° 25' 50.0304" E

W3W	sprayers, continuously, snowstorm
UTM	35 S, 356940, 3884351
EGSA87	630252, 3883871

Elevation m	865
Elevation feet	2837.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pedhiadha

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Ksipharas [2004], 178
2.    Tholos.   Nowicki [2000], 144    '...Halbherr investigated and excavated several tholos tombs at Xenotafia.'
3.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 262    'Trois petites tombes à tholos ...'
4.    Tholos.   Halbherr [1901], 270    'Their form is that of a rude tholos (dome) of small proportions, precisely like an oven or a beehive, with a kind of little short tunnel or channel in tetragonal section before the entrance.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 145, 'The material from Halbherr's excavations ... was dated by Desborough to the LM IIIB-C period ...'
    b.    Pelon [1976]: 262, 'La seule de ces tombes qui contenait du mobilier, la tholos A, est datée du MR IIIB-C.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 145, 'The material from Halbherr's excavations ... was dated by Desborough to the LM IIIB-C period ...'
    b.    Pelon [1976]: 262, 'La seule de ces tombes qui contenait du mobilier, la tholos A, est datée du MR IIIB-C.'
    c.    Ksipharas [2004]: 178,

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Ksipharas [2004]: 178,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Halbherr [1901]: Halbherr, Federico. . ‘Cretan Expedition XI. Three Cretan Necropoleis: Report on the Researches at Erganos, Panaghia, and Courtes', ’, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1901), pp. 259-293. 1901., 'I. Erganos', pg. 262. Online here.

2. Ksipharas [2004]: Ksipharas, N.. Habitations of Protogeometric and Geometric Crete; the transition from Minoan in Greek Society. Rethymno, Crete. 2004., '', pg. 178.

3. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '61. Katofygi Erganos Kefali', pg. 143.

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., '58. Erganos', pg. 262. Online here.