Site details

Krokos: Cem

PK	C5188
TITLE	Krokos: Cem
WGS84	38.907474° N, 24.568079° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	38.907474, 24.568079
LON/LAT	24.568079, 38.907474

DMS

38° 54' 26.9064" N

24° 34' 5.0844" E

W3W	cones, rarely, frizz
UTM	35 S, 289128.2, 4309320.63
EGSA87	549107, 4306375

Elevation m	105
Elevation feet	344.5
Region	Sporades
Subregion	Skyros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 185    'Traces of a chamber tomb cemetery have been noted on the lower northeast slope of the hill and this may be the source of several vases in the museum...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 347    'Traces of a chamber tomb cemetery have been noted on the lower NE slope of the acropolis, ... '
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Karambinis [2015], 171    '...a group of five Mycenaean chamber-tombs published by Theocharis in 1945-47, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 347, 'EB and MH is reported at Kastro and ... '

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'N EB MH LH IIIA-C PG ...'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 347, 'EB and MH is reported at Kastro and ... '

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Karambinis [2015]: 171, '...Mycenaean...'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'N EB MH LH IIIA-C PG ...'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'N EB MH LH IIIA-C PG ...'

6. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 185, 'N EB MH LH IIIA-C PG ...'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 347, ' ..., the most interesting a LH IIIC stirrup jar decorated with a ship ... '

NOTES

1. In Karambinis [2015], p. 171, note 1: "The tombs were initially identified by Kostas Faltaits ... The tombs have since been lost, as in his publication Theocharis does not provide their exact location. For diagrams of the tombs see loc. cit., 172, fig. 9.3."

2. This cem is now lost.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Karambinis [2015]: Karambinis, Michalis. The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times : an archaeological survey. Ph.D. dissertation. Leiden University. 2015., '9.1 Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Data', pg. 171. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Skyros: Kastro', pg. 185. Online here.

3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Kastro', pg. 347. Online here.