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Knossos: Isopata Royal Tomb

PKC5539
TITLEKnossos: Isopata Royal Tomb
WGS84 35.321266° N, 25.155536° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.321266, 25.155536
LON/LAT 25.155536, 35.321266

DMS 35° 19' 16.5576" N,25° 9' 19.9296" E

W3Wtoday, tweaked, cheered
UTM35 S, 332340, 3910232
EGSA87 604885, 3908995

Elevation m95
Elevation feet 311.7
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 34    'The construction of the tomb was at first dated by Evans to M. M. III on the basis of signs (mason's marks) ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 34, '..., but later (PM iv 774) to L. M. II to which period the earliest traces of burials recovered are assignable.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 34, 'The tomb was re-used for burials in L. M. III C like the KEFALA THOLOS TOMB 17.'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 34, 'A few Geometric sherds were recovered 'rather in the upper levels' of the tomb...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood and Smyth [1981]:  Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, ' 2(1). Isopata Royal Tomb', pg. 34. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5539 is at 35.34232° N, 25.1461° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 488 m.