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Myloi: MH Cem

PKC879
TITLEMyloi: MH Cem
WGS84 37.551254° N, 22.718125° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.551254, 22.718125
LON/LAT 22.718125, 37.551254

DMS 37° 33' 4.5144" N,22° 43' 5.25" E

W3Wcakes, craning, exaggerate
UTM34 S, 651767, 4157415
EGSA87 386621, 4156512

Elevation m5
Elevation feet 16.4
RegionArgolid





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Cist Tomb.   Ålin [1962], 45    'Es fanden sich sonst in dem Grabungsgebiet Kistengräber, ... '
2.    Cist Tomb.   Mee and Spawforth [2001], 215    
3.    Pottery.   Lindblom and Ekroth [2016], 238    'The pottery retrieved from the two fills, one of the largest assemblages ever excavated on the LH I Greek mainland, ... '
4.    Tomb.   Lindblom and Ekroth [2016], 238    ' ... the two shaft graves at Lerna ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Mee and Spawforth [2001]: 215,

2. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Lindblom and Ekroth [2016]: 238, ' ... funerary feasts held in conjunction with the original burials in LH I.'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Lindblom and Ekroth [2016]: 240, ' ... their contents were removed early in LH IIIA2 or 10-12 generations (using the high chronology) after the original funerals.'

NOTES

1.  Photographs of the two shaft graves are in Lindblom and Ekroth [2016], Pl. LXXVa, b, c.

2.  Additional:

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ålin [1962]:  Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Lerna', pg. 45.

2.  Alram-Stern et al. (eds.) [2016]:  Alram-Stern, Eva and Fritz Blakolmer, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, Robert Laffineur, Jorg Weilhartner. METAPHYSIS; Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age. Peeters; Leuven - Liege. 2016., '',

3.  Lindblom and Ekroth [2016]:  Lindblom, Michael and Gunnel Ekroth. ‘Heroes, Ancestors or Just Any Old Bones? Contextualizing the Consecration of Human Remains from the Mycenaean Shaft Graves at Lerna in the Argolid’, In Alram-Stern et al. (eds.) [2016], pp. 235-243., 'Heroes Found at Lerna', pg. 238. Online here.

4.  Mee and Spawforth [2001]:  Mee, Christopher and Antony Spawforth. Greece; An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street. Oxford. 2001. , 'Description', pg. 215. And p. 216, Fig. 85, #8.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C879 is at 37.55116° N, 22.72056° E, a straight-line distance of 215.6 m.