Site details

Nidri: R-Cemetery at Stenos

PK	C620
TITLE	Nidri: R–Cemetery at Stenos
WGS84	38.698311° N, 20.703694° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.698311, 20.703694
LON/LAT	20.703694, 38.698311

DMS

38° 41' 53.9196" N

20° 42' 13.2984" E

W3W	dockside, playfulness, improbable
UTM	34 S, 474234, 4283340
EGSA87	213174, 4288170

Elevation m	7
Elevation feet	23
Region	Ionian Islands
Subregion	Lefkada

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 184    ' ..., including gold and silver jewellery, objects of copper or bronze ..., obsidian blades, and pottery, ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 19    'The gravegoods, most of which were found in the Hauptgräber, included pottery, weapons of copper or copper alloy, and jewellery of gold and silver.'
3.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 184    'The R tumuli contained at least fifty burials of both adults and children, ... '
4.    Cem.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 18    'The cemetery of EH tumuli'
5.    Cem.   Muller [1989], 5    '...dans la nécropole qu'a fouillée Dörpfeld entre 1908 et 1913...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 18,
    b.    Cavanagh and Mee [1998]: 22, ' ... Early Helladic Graves'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Muller [1989]: 5, 'De fait, les avis divergent sur le début de l'utilisation de la nécropole R, placé tantôt a l'HA II, tantôt a l'HA III.'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 184, ' ..., much of which has EH II parallels.'

3. EH III: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Muller [1989]: 5, 'De fait, les avis divergent sur le début de l'utilisation de la nécropole R, placé tantôt a l'HA II, tantôt a l'HA III.'

4. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 184, 'Two daggers from R 17a may be Cretan imports, being very similar to an EM III - MM I type, ... '

5. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 184, 'Two daggers from R 17a may be Cretan imports, being very similar to an EM III - MM I type, ... '

NOTES

1. See Müller [1989] p. 7, Fig. 2 for a map of the R cemetery at Stenos. She reproduces Dörpfeld's map of 1927.

2. A good diagram of the individual burials in Cavanagh and Mee [1998] 171, Fig. 3.3

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Cavanagh and Mee [1998]: Cavanagh, William and Christopher Mee. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (CCXXV). Paul Aströms Förlag, Jonsered. Sweden. 1998., 'Catalogue of Early Helladic Graves ... Lefkas: Nidri', pg. 22.

2. Muller [1989]: Müller, Sylvie. ‘Les Tumuli Helladiques: ou? quand? comment?’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (113:1) pp. 1-42. 1989., 'La Nécropole Tumulaire de Leucade', pg. 5. 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., 'E 10 Leukas: The Nidhri Plain', pg. 184. Online here.

4. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina. The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 3000-800 B.C.. Liverpool University Press. 1999. , 'Steno (13); B. The R-Graves', pg. 18. Online here.