Site details

Kokkiniano

PK	C6266
TITLE	Kokkiniano
WGS84	35.014943° N, 24.988551° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	35.014943, 24.988551
LON/LAT	24.988551, 35.014943

DMS

35° 0' 53.7948" N

24° 59' 18.7836" E

W3W	lewdly, fluorine, mashes
UTM	35 S, 316472, 3876549
EGSA87	590043, 3874858

Elevation m	170
Elevation feet	557.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kainourion

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.   Pendlebury et al. [1933], 88    'But at Kokkiniano, fifteen minutes to the North, we found traces of a similar tomb. No sherds could be found in it, however, though some indistinguishable ones lay in a field to the North.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan IIB: (2450 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMIIB - ?EMIII/MMI.'

2. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMIIB - ?EMIII/MMI.'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 187, 'Dating: Surface sherds suggest ?EMIIB - ?EMIII/MMI.'

NOTE

1. The petrol station in Goodison and Guarita is at F4701 and the 'very large greenhouse' is at F4702. 700 m. on from the petrol station brings us to 35.015904, 24.990477. 200 m. down a road to the left brings us to the marked location.

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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, '32. Kokkiniano', pg. 186. 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., 'Kokkiniano', pg. 462. Online here.

3. Pendlebury et al. [1933]: Pendlebury, J.D.S., M. B. Money-Coutts, E. Eccles. ‘Journeys in Crete, 1934’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (33) 80-100, 1932-1933., '', pg. 88. Online here.