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Dhrakones: Delta & Zeta

PK	C6258
TITLE	Dhrakones: Delta & Zeta
WGS84	34.992355° N, 25.049019° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	34.992355, 25.049019
LON/LAT	25.049019, 34.992355

DMS

34° 59' 32.478" N

25° 2' 56.4684" E

W3W	meek, cats, restrict
UTM	35 S, 321941, 3873934
EGSA87	595587, 3872409

Elevation m	322
Elevation feet	1056.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Monophatsion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 171    'The Mesara-type tombs are circular stone-built structures a number of which show traces of an original corbelled 'tholos' roof.'
2.    Tomb.   Pelon [1976], 17    Circular Tombs

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 17, 'Datation : MA III (?) ...'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Pelon [1976]: 17, 'Datation : ... - MMI ... '

3. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 183, For Dhrakones D: 'Dating: MMIA'

4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 183, For Dhrakones Z: 'Dating MMIA (Re-use in LMIII)'

NOTE

1. Directions given by the various authors are inconsistent. I have placed the marker notionally 2 km. E of Phournopharango. For more see plate 24.1 in P. Belli, 'Nuovi documenti per lo studio delle tombe circolari Cretesi', Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (25), 91-143. 1984. At the time of writing (2018) I did not have access to this.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Goodison and Guarita [2005]: Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita. ‘A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005, '17. Dhrakones D and 18. Dhrakones Z', pg. 183. The tombs are adjacent.
Online here.

2. Pelon [1976]: Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '7. Drakones', pg. 17. Online here.