Ayia Marina: Gerospilio Cave
| PK | C5770 |
| TITLE | Ayia Marina: Gerospilio Cave |
| WGS84 | 35.515296° N, 23.933007° E |
| Accuracy | 1000 m. |
| LAT/LON | 35.515296, 23.933007 |
| LON/LAT | 23.933007, 35.515296 |
| DMS | 35° 30' 55.0656" N | , | 23° 55' 58.8252" E |
| W3W | quads, mouse, birdseed |
| UTM | 34 S, 765991, 3934147 |
| EGSA87 | 493777, 3929903 |
| Elevation m | 29 |
| Elevation feet | 95.1 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Kydhonia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave
TYPE
1. Cave. Hood [1965], 107 'A stone double-vase from the cave was assigned by Marinatos to M.M. I.'2. Cem. Faure [1958], 501 '..., une grotte funeraire, dite Gerospilios, ...'
3. Cem. Moody [1987], 'FUNCTION: Minoan-burial cave'
4. Pottery. Pendlebury [1965], 123 'Double stone vase from Gerospilio cave.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
a. Faure [1958]: 501, '..., de la fin du Minoen ancien...'
b. Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: EM/MMI'
2. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
a. Faure [1958]: 501, '... ou du début du minoen moyen, ...'
3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
a. Hood [1965]: 107, '...was assigned by Marinatos to M.M. I.'
b. Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: EM/MMI'
NOTES
1. Hood [1965] says: '..., apparently used for burials ...'
2. Faure [1958] 501 describes the principal find here as '... un kernos, sorte de saleron de marbre gris vert à 2 trous,...'
3. Location not known. This marker was placed based on the map in Hood [1965] 103 where it is shown as C. 4. Faure [1958] 501 suggests that this cave was found as a consequence of quarry work: '...: en travaillant dans une carrière, on a découvert, voici une trentaine d'années, une grotte funéraire, dite Gerospilios, ...'
4. Moody [1987] says 'I went in search of the cave and couldn't find it.'
5. Original find: Sp. Marinatos, Mitt. über Höhlen und Karstforschung, 1928, Fig. 4.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Faure [1958]: Faure, Paul. ‘Spéléologie et topographie crétoises’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (82), pp. 495-515. 1958, '', pg. 501.
Online here.
2. Hood [1965]: Hood, M.S.F.. ‘Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), pp. 99-113, 1965., 'C. 4. Ayia Marina: 'Yerospilio' Cave', pg. 107.
Online here.
3. Moody [1987]: Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'AMR1', Online here.
4. Pendlebury [1965]: Pendlebury, John D.. The Archaeology of Crete. Norton, 1965., 'WEST CRETE; Agia Marina', pg. 123.