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Recent and Fossil Shells from Tomb xviii, Gypsades cemetery, Knossos, Crete*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

David S. Reese
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Tomb XVIII in the Gypsades cemetery, south of the Knossos Palace, was excavated by Sinclair Hood, George Huxley, and Nancy Sandars in 1955 and published in 1959.1

The main chamber contained at least 9 burials. Only a handful of objects were found associated with these burials: a small bronze bead with the skull of Skeleton II, 4 small, plain vessels with the skull of Skeleton III, silver ear-rings with Skeleton IV, a lentoid sealstone of hammered silver or meteorite with Burial VII, and a small bronze link with Burial VIII.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 77 , November 1982 , pp. 249 - 250
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1982

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References

1 ‘A Minoan Cemetery on Upper Gypsades (Knossos Survey 156)’, BSA 53–4 (1958–9) 194–262 pls. 49–63; see especially pp. 220–4, 25–53, 260, figs. 21–2, pls. 52e–f, 53a–b, 60d.

2 I thank Mr. William E. Old, Jr., Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, for clarifying the identification of this specimen.

3 Evans, A., PM iv 2 (1935) 110 n.Google Scholar 7, fig. 76. Evans distinguished two species of Tun shell from Cretan archaeological sites but today only T. galea is considered valid.

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6 I thank Mr. L. Hugh Sackett for making the Unexplored Mansion marine invertebrates available for study in the Stracigraphic Museum in June 1980.

7 Doumas, C., ‘Early Bronze Age Burial Habits in the Cyclades’, SIMA 48 (1977) 78 pl. xxvd, right.Google Scholar

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