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Sellopoulo Tomb 4: Some Analyses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
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Five Late Minoan tombs have been excavated at Sellopoulo, near Knossos. Much the richest of these, excavated in 1967 by M. R. Popham, was the unpillaged Tomb 4, whose three burials were accompanied by a rich array of gold and other jewellery, bronze vessels and weapons, and pottery. This pottery established the date of the burials within the Late Minoan II-early IIIA phase. Furthermore, the tomb contained a scarab of Amenophis III, whose reign extended from c 1420 to 1385 B.C., according to the high Egyptian chronology, c 1405–1375/70 B.C. according to the low chronology.
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Acknowledgements. This work was carried out with the resources of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Research Laboratory in the British School at Athens; the authors acknowledge their deep indebtedness to Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. They are very grateful to Mr. M. R. Popham for agreeing to the analyses being carried out.
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10 It is hoped to publish the analyses of the Unexplored Mansion copper and bronze objects in a forthcoming issue of Archaeometry.