PKey Report
PKC866
TITLEAyios Ioannis: Tholos
WGS84 37.593728° N, 22.94266° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 37.593728, 22.94266
LON/LAT 22.94266, 37.593728

DMS 37° 35' 37.4208" N,22° 56' 33.576" E

W3Wnectarines, detect, bloomers
UTM34 S, 671505, 4162514
EGSA87 406508, 4160978

Elevation m208
Elevation feet 682.4
RegionArgolid







GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 51    ' ..., and some EH sherds have been found near the tholos tomb.'

2.    Tholos.   Pelon [1976], 181    'Cette tombe à tholos est située à proximite de l'ancienne acropole de Kazarma, ...'

3.    Tholos.   Simpson [1981], 27    'About 200 m. east of Ayios Ioannis, and about 10 m. north of the road, a tholos tomb was discovered. It is fairly small (diameter 7.5m.) and badly preserved, ... '

4.    Tholos.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 51    'The tholos tomb is small (d. 7.5 m.) and badly preserved, ... '



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Helladic: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 51, ' ..., and some EH sherds have been found near the tholos tomb.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 51, 'There is evidence of sacrifice on an alter in the doorway in LH and PG ... '

3. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)

    a.    Pelon [1976]: 182, 'La tombe est datée par E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki de l'HR I - début HR II ...'

4. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)

    a.    Pelon [1976]: 182, 'La tombe est datée par E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki de l'HR I - début HR II ...'

5. Late Helladic IIA: (1635 BC - 1470 BC)

    a.    Simpson [1981]: 27, '...but intact burials of LH IIA date were preserved in deep pits below its floor, ...'

    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 51, ' ..., but intact burials of LH IIA date were preserved in deep pits below the floor ... '

6. Late Helladic IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)

    a.    Pelon [1976]: 182, 'La tombe semble avoir été réutilisée à l'HR IIIC, peut-être pour une cérémonie du culte funéraire.'

7. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 51, 'There is evidence of sacrifice on an alter in the doorway in LH and PG ... '


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Pelon [1976]:  Pelon, Olivier. Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires; Recherches sur les monuments funéraires de plan circulaire dan l'Égée de l’Âge du Bronze (IIIe at IIe millénaires av. J.-C). Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome - Série Athènes, 229. 1976., '6. Kazarma.', pg. 181. Online here.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 28 Ayios Ioannis: Kasarma', pg. 27. Online here.

3.  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., 'A 25 Ayios Ioannis: Kazarma', pg. 51. Online here.