Site details

Petrokephali: Tomb

PK	C5142
TITLE	Petrokephali: Tomb
WGS84	35.032469° N, 24.834148° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.032469, 24.834148
LON/LAT	24.834148, 35.032469

DMS

35° 1' 56.8884" N

24° 50' 2.9328" E

W3W	continues, incidentally, sadden
UTM	35 S, 302424, 3878788
EGSA87	575940, 3876673

Elevation m	51
Elevation feet	167.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pyrgiotissa

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Levi [1957], 359    'Un altro complesso funerario s'è rivelato verso la fine dell'agosto 1957, durante lo scavo di un pozzo circolare ...'
2.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 99    'In 1957, the Italian School excavated a rectangular SM-PGB (and possibly to O) shaft/pit grave ... at the site of Myloi, around 50 m. to the north of the modern village...'
3.    Cem.   Watrous et al. [2004], 533    'PG - O tomb.'
4.    Pottery.   Rocchetti [1967], 181    '...del rinvenimento di un cospicuo numero di vase entro una fossa ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Rocchetti [1967]: 181, ? 'La decorazione rientra nei motivi a zig- zag molto diffusi nel tardo miceneo...'

2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Rocchetti [1967]: 186, Vase 22 comparable to a krater from Knossos dated LMIIIB and LM IIIC.'

3. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Rocchetti [1967]: 186, Vase 22 comparable to a krater from Knossos dated LMIIIB and LM IIIC.

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 533, 'PG - O tomb.'
    b.    Rocchetti [1967]: 187, 'Vase 34 comparable to a PG oinochoe from Knossos'
    c.    Levi [1957]: 361,
    d.    Eaby [2007]: 99, '... a rectangular SM-PGB (and possibly to O) shaft/pit grave ...'

5. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 99, '... a rectangular SM-PGB (and possibly to O) shaft/pit grave ...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Levi [1957]: 361,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '60. Petrokephali', pg. 99. Online here.

2. Levi [1957]: Levi, Doro. ‘Gli scavi a Festos nel 1956 e 1957’, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene [35-36], 193–362. 1957., '', pg. 359. Online here.

3. Rocchetti [1967]: Rocchetti, L.. ‘IL DEPOSITO PROTOGEOMETRICO DI PETROKEPHALI PRESSO FESTÒS’, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene [45-46] 181-209 1967-1968., '', pg. 181. Online here.

4. Watrous et al. [2004]: Watrous, L. Vance, Despoina Hadzi-Vallianou, Harriet Blitzer. Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete. Monumenta Archaeologica 23, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2004., 'Appendix D, 51.', pg. 533. Online here.