Site details

Lebena Papoura I

PK	C5111
TITLE	Lebena Papoura I
WGS84	34.933191° N, 24.916309° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	34.933191, 24.916309
LON/LAT	24.916309, 34.933191

DMS

34° 55' 59.4876" N

24° 54' 58.7124" E

W3W	inked, scorching, backwards
UTM	35 S, 309691, 3867616
EGSA87	583535, 3865729

Elevation m	57
Elevation feet	187
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kainourion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Herrero [2014], 191    'Tholos P1'
2.    Tholos.   Myers et al. [1992], 164    'Prepalatial tholos tombs have been found near Lenda at two separate sites west of the village and one site east of it ...'
3.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 189    'Almost all circuit wall standing, to greatest height 1.25 m. Wall thickness up to 2m. ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 164, 'EM I - MM IB tholos tombs.'

2. Early Minoan IIA: (2650 BC - 2450 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 189, 'Dating: EMIIA-EMIII/MMI.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 192, 'Documented first use: EM IIA. ... '

3. Early Minoan IIB: (2450 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 189, 'Dating: EMIIA-EMIII/MMI.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 192, ' ...: EM IIB, ...'

4. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 189, 'Dating: EMIIA-EMIII/MMI.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 191, ' ..., EM III, ... '

5. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 189, 'Dating: EMIIA-EMIII/MMI.'

6. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 164, 'EM I - MM IB tholos tombs.'
    b.    Herrero [2014]: 191, ' ..., MM IA.'

7. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 164, 'EM I - MM IB tholos tombs.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Goodison and Guarita [2005]: Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita. ‘A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005, '41. Lebena Papoura I', pg. 189. Online here.

2. Herrero [2014]: Herrero, Borja Legarra. Mortuary Behavior and Social Trajectories in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete. INSTAP Academic Press, March, 2014., '76. Levena Papoura, Tholos P1', pg. 191.

3. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '21 Lebena - Tombs', pg. 164.