PKey Report
      
PKC6679
TITLEChosti_Khosti
WGS84 37.148511° N, 25.531288° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.148511, 25.531288
LON/LAT 25.531288, 37.148511

DMS 37° 8' 54.6396" N,25° 31' 52.6368" E

W3Wtwisty, refinements, sweltering
UTM35 S, 369570.47, 4112357.03
EGSA87 635839, 4112157

Elevation m593
Elevation feet 1945.5
RegionCyclades
SubregionNaxos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 333    ' ...only finds reported are sherds of plain unslipped cup-like vases, ... '

2.    Tholos.   Vlachopoulos [2016], 127    'A looted ... tholos tomb at Chosti, near Komiaki, ...

3.    Tholos.   Cavanagh and Mee [1998], 83    'Tholos Tombs'

4.    Tholos.   Schallin [1993], 19    'A tholos tomb, situated inland near Komiaki in the north, ... '

5.    Tholos.   Fimmen [1921], 14    'Ein ausgeraubtes Kuppelgrab bei Komiaki, Prakt. 1908, 118.'

6.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 333    ' ..., a small (d. 3.4 m.) tholos-shaped built tomb was found.'



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 333 'EB or MB?'

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 333 'EB or MB?'

3. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 333 ' ..., perhaps belonging to MM-type conical cups or possibly earlier.'

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)

    a.    Schallin [1993]: 19 ' ..., but it probably belonged to the LBA.'

5. Late Helladic IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)

    a.    Cavanagh and Mee [1998]: 83 'The Late Helladic IIIA - B Period'

    b.    Vlachopoulos [2016]: 127 'A looted (LH IIIA-B?) tholos tomb at Chosti, near Kamiaki, ... '

6. Late Helladic IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)

    a.    Cavanagh and Mee [1998]: 83 'The Late Helladic IIIA - B Period'

    b.    Vlachopoulos [2016]: 127 'A looted (LH IIIA-B?) tholos tomb at Chosti, near Kamiaki, ... '


NOTES

1.  I would like to thank Dr. Dimitri Nakassis for his contributions to this entry.

2.  Location determined from a series of user-submitted photographs here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Cavanagh and Mee [1998]:  Cavanagh, William and Christopher Mee. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (CCXXV). Paul Aströms Förlag, Jonsered. Sweden. 1998., 'Tholos Tombs', pg. 81.

2.  Fimmen [1921]:  Fimmen, Dietrich. Die Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur. Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, Leipzig und Berlin. 1921., 'Naxos', pg. 14. Online here.

3.  Gorogianni, Pavuk and Girella (eds.) [2016]:  Gorogianni, Evi, Peter Pavuk, and Luca Girella. Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean. Oxbow Books, Havertown, Pennsylvania, USA., '',

4.  Schallin [1993]:  Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '32. Chosti (Khosti)', pg. 19.

5.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Chosti', pg. 333. Online here.

6.  Vlachopoulos [2016]:  Vlachopoulos, Andreas G.. ‘Neither Far from Knossos nor Close to Mycenae: Naxos in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Aegean’, In Gorogianni et al. [2016] 116., '', pg. 116. Online here.