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The cemetery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2013

Sinclair Hood
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The existence of Late Minoan tombs somewhere in this area was noted by Evans, and several of those found during our excavations had been partly destroyed or plundered. Nineteen tombs were discovered in all. One of them (XVIII) was a Middle Minoan tomb (see p. 220). The rest (with the possible exception of tomb VIII which was found empty, and which from its shape and character may be Middle Minoan) all belonged to the Late Minoan III period, from the time of the destruction of the Late Minoan II Palace about 1400 B.C. (tombs I, II, XV), till the end of Late Minoan times (tomb VII), when iron had begun to come into use (c. ?1150 B.C.), a range of some 250 years or more. It is possible that tomb I, with its finely decorated clay vases and interesting bronze knives and razors, may go back within the limits of the early part of Late Minoan IIIA (Furumark's IIIA 1) before the destruction of the Palace.

Type
A Minoan cemetery on Upper Gypsades (Knossos Survey 156)
Information
Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 53 , November 1959 , pp. 194 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1959

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References

Acknowledgements. We are most grateful to Dr. N. Platon and to Mr. S. Alexiou of Herakleion Museum for all their ready help and co-operation at all stages of the work. To Dr. J. Trevor of the Duckworth Laboratory, Cambridge, we are indebted for examining those of the human skeletal remains which had been recovered from the excavations before he left Crete; to the Rev. V. E. G. Kenna we are much obliged for an opinion based upon photographs and descriptions of the four sealstones.

List of abbreviations in addition to those ordinarily in use in the Annual.

ChronP Furumark, , The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery (1941).Google Scholar

ChTs Wace, , Chamber Tombs at Mycenae(Archaeologia 82), 1932.Google Scholar

Gourina Hawes, , Gournia (1908).Google Scholar

HM Herakleion Museum Inventory Number.

KCh κρητικὰ Χρονικά.

Mirabello Van Effenterre, , Nécropoles du Mirabello (1948).Google Scholar

MP Furumark, , The Mycenaean Pottery (1941).Google Scholar

Palaikastro Bosanquet-Dawkins, , The Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro (BSA Supplementary Paper I), 1923.Google Scholar

Prosymna Blegen, , Prosymna (1937).Google Scholar

PT Evans, , The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos (Archaeologia 59), 1906.Google Scholar

RTs Persson, , The Royal Tombs at Dendra (1931).Google Scholar

TDA Evans, , The Tomb of the Double Axes (Archaeologia 65), 1914.Google Scholar

1 PM ii, plan opp. 547: ‘Late Minoan rock tombs’ in bottom left corner.

2 BSA xxviii. 258, figs. 12, 13.

3 For bones from an earlier burial in a hole in the floor, cf. the chamber tomb at Pachiammos dug by Alexiou and assigned by him to L.M. IIIB. 1 (KCh 8 (1954) 399 f.), cf. Gournia 46.

4 This suggestion was put forward in regard to the Hospital site tombs (BSA xlvii. 248 n. 17; cf. Persson in RTs 68).

5 Knossos Survey, p. 6; BSA 52 (1957) 228.