Site details

Koumasa B

PK	C6269
TITLE	Koumasa B
WGS84	34.983213° N, 25.013039° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	34.983213, 25.013039
LON/LAT	25.013039, 34.983213

DMS

34° 58' 59.5668" N

25° 0' 46.9404" E

W3W	tombs, dumpling, regattas
UTM	35 S, 318637, 3872985
EGSA87	592313, 3871361

Elevation m	359
Elevation feet	1177.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Monophatsion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   BCH Online, 3409    'Cleaning of the west section of the wall of tholos tomb B revealed a large number of small finds including a prepalatial stone seal, a theriomorphic ivory pendant, pieces of stone vessels, stone counters, pebbles of various forms and one gold ring-shaped counter.'
2.    Cem.   Herrero [2011], 56    'The Koumasa cemetery ... was excavted by Xanthoudides in 1904 and 1906 ... '
3.    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.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 188, 'Dating: EMI-III, ?MMIA.'

2. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 188, 'Dating: EMI-III, ?MMIA.'
    b.    Herrero [2011]: 62, ' ..., the general impression seems to be that the architectural layout and the material assemblage recovered provides us with a snapshot of the life of this cemetery during the early EM II period.'

3. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 188, 'Dating: EMI-III, ?MMIA.'
    b.    Herrero [2011]: 61, 'Sixteen seals were recovered from Tholos Alpha and 19 from Tholos Beta, including EM III - MM I examples ...; '

4. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Herrero [2011]: 61, 'Sixteen seals were recovered from Tholos Alpha and 19 from Tholos Beta, including EM III - MM I examples ...; '

5. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 188, 'Dating: EMI-III, ?MMIA.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Koumasa, Crete', no. 3409. Online here. Online here.

2. 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, '35. Koumasa B', pg. 187. Online here.

3. Herrero [2011]: Herrero, Borja Legarra. ‘3. The Secret Lives of the Early and Middle MinoanTholos Cemeteries: Koumasa and Platanos’, Murphy [2011] pp. 49-84., 'Koumasa', pg. 56. Online here.