Site details

Chamaizi: Tholos

PK	C5892
TITLE	Chamaizi: Tholos
WGS84	35.207191° N, 26.020846° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.207191, 26.020846
LON/LAT	26.020846, 35.207191

DMS

35° 12' 25.8876" N

26° 1' 15.0456" E

W3W	fixates, nest, perches
UTM	35 S, 410875, 3896459
EGSA87	683804, 3897602

Elevation m	249
Elevation feet	816.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Eaby [2007], 70    '...finds from one small tholos tomb which was excavated by villagers and destroyed in 1961.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 70, 'Iron weapons and 14 vases, dating to LM IIIC - ...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 70, 'Iron weapons and 14 vases, dating to LM IIIC - PGB...'

3. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 70, '...and early LG, ...'

NOTE

1. Placed notionally 700 m SE of Liopetro (C5090) and 500 m. west of Chamaizi: Fatsi (C5091). Eaby [2007] 70 says 'This tholos was located in the valley ~500 meters west of the Phatsi group and ~700 meters southeast of Liopetro.' Refer to the sketch map in Nowicki [2000] 102, fig. 44 where it appears as no. 3.

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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., '23. Chamaizi.', pg. 70. Online here.

2. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '', pg. 102.