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Platanovrysi South Tholos

PK	C7717
TITLE	Platanovrysi South Tholos
WGS84	36.922138° N, 21.805521° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.922138, 21.805521
LON/LAT	21.805521, 36.922138

DMS

36° 55' 19.6968" N

21° 48' 19.8756" E

W3W	condiments, uncritically, deduction
UTM	34 S, 571745.77, 4086537.92
EGSA87	304382, 4088196

Elevation m	374
Elevation feet	1227
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Greek Archaeological Service,     ' ...fragments of faience and carnelian, small gold sheets, an arrowhead, a seal made of rock crystal ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Zavadil [2012], 548    'Siegel (Bergkristall), Perlen (Karneol), Pfeilspitze', 'Perlen (Fayence)'
3.    Pottery.   Greek Archaeological Service,     ' ... and painted clay vessels ... '
4.    Pottery.   Zavadil [2012], 548    'Im Grab fand sich bemalte mykenische Keramik.'
5.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 548    'Tholos 2'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Greek Archaeological Service: , ' ... a tholos tomb dating back to the Mycenaean era (1680-1060 B.C.).'

2. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 548, ? 'Die Existenz von Karneolperlen und einem Bergkristallsiegel sprechen für eine zeitliche Einordnung der Erbauung des Grabes vielleicht in die frühmykenische Periode.' ==> ' The existence of the Carnelian pearls and a rock crystal seal speak for a chronological placement of grave construction in, perhaps, the early Mycenaean period.'

NOTES

1. I am indebted to Hajo Becker for drawing my attention to this tholos. The text of the Greek Archaeological Service, which Dr. Becker transcribed for me, is as follows: "In 2002, a rescue excavation that was carried out in this area by the Greek Archaeological Service, uncovered a tholos tomb dating back to the Mycenaean era (1680-1060 B.C.). The tomb, 5,16 m in diameter and 2,8 m in saved height, had already been plundered during antiquity. However a few funeral offerings were saved from its interior. These offerings form a rich collection which consists of fragments of faience and carnelian, small gold sheets, an arrowhead, a seal made of rock crystal and painted clay vessels of the Mycenaean era. At a small distance, west of the tomb, can be seen another small tholos tomb. Its tholos has nowadays collapsed. This tomb was excavated in the late 1960s, but did not yield any findings. Based on its construction however, it is dated possibly around the Protogeometric period (1060-900 B.C.). Apparently, there is an extensive cemetery in the wider area, which could probably be correlated to the prehistoric residential settlement that was located in the area of Chandrinos." The 'small tholos tomb' mentioned is C326 in this Atlas. I do not know its exact location.

2. Zavadil [2012] 548 says: "Mindestens drei weitere Gruppen von Gräbern wurden 1968 in der näheren Umgebung festgestellt. G. S. Korres vermutete, ohne auf die Problematik der Datierung weiter einzugehen, daß die Grabstätten in Genitsaroi mit der Anlage in Ano Kremmydia/Kaminia zu vergleichen sein könnten. Im Jahr 2002 haben Mitarbeiter der Ephorie im Zuge einer Notgrabung eine dieser Tholoi (= Tholos 2) östlich von Tholos 1 erforscht und das Grab im Internet vorgestellt." ==> "At least three further groups of graves were discovered in the surrounding area in 1968. G.S. Korres suspected, without going into the problem of dating, that the tombs in Genitsaroi could be compared with the site (Anlage) in Ano Kremmydia/Kaminia. In the year 2002 employees of the Ephoria, in course of a rescue excavation, investigated one of these tholoi (= Tholos 2) east of Tholos 1 and reported the grave on the internet."

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'Platanovrysi/Genitsaroi (Ep. Pylias)', pg. 547. Online here.