Site details

Argos: Mycenaean Cemetery North

PK	C971
TITLE	Argos: Mycenaean Cemetery North
WGS84	37.642365° N, 22.719496° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.642365, 22.719496
LON/LAT	22.719496, 37.642365

DMS

37° 38' 32.514" N

22° 43' 10.1856" E

W3W	mainland, guilty, fits
UTM	34 S, 651703, 4167526
EGSA87	386880, 4166619

Elevation m	66
Elevation feet	216.5
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Foley [1988], 174    'The Deiras cemetery also began to be excavated .. yielding tombs of the Mycenaean period.'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Philippa-Touchais [2015], 449    '... the central and northern clusters comprise chamber tombs XI-XXXVI bis and all pit- and cist-graves, excavated by Deshayes;'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 174, '... Argos' most important prehistoric remains date to the MH...'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Philippa-Touchais [2015]: 463, 'In LH IIIA1, the first tombs appeared in the northern part of the cemetery, ...'

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Philippa-Touchais [2015]: 463, 'By LH IIIA2, Deiras had clearly become a burial ground for the majority of the population of Argos, ...'

NOTE

1. This is the northern cluster of an extensive Myc. burial site.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Foley [1988]: Foley, Anne. The Argolid 800-600 B.C.: An Archaeological Survey : Together with an Index of Sites from the Neolithic to the Roman Period. Göteborg : P. Åströms Förlag, 1988., '9. Argos', pg. 172.

2. Philippa-Touchais [2015]: Philippa-Touchais, Anna, Deiras. ‘Argos: The Mycenaean cemetery revisited in the light of unpublished finds from W.Vollgraff's excavations’, Schallin and Tournavitou [2015], pp. 449-467, 'Topography and Location of the Tombs', pg. 449.