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Surroundings:

The Harvesters vase from Hagia TriadaThe famous Hagia Triada sarcophagusPhaists Disc, side aPhaists Disc, side bKommos, Temple BKommos, Temple C

Location:

  • Greece, Kamilári
  • geo:35.045345,24.786882
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -1900~ / -1630~

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22392

Annotations

The Prepalatial Kamilari Tomb is a collective burial place continuously used for few cebturies. Accordind Doro Levii it was constructed in MM IB ie ca 1900 BC.

See:

  1. http://www.minoancrete.com/kamilari.htm
  2. Doro Levi, La tomba a Tholos di Kamilari presso a Festòs, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome 1962.
  3. Eleanor Emlen Myers, J. Wilson Myers, Gerald Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete, University of California Press, 1992
  4. Sarah Cappel, Ute Günkel-Maschek, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Minoan Archaeology: Perspectives for the 21st Century, Presses universitaires de Louvain 2015
  5. James C. Wright, The Mycenaean Feast, ASCSA 2004

Nearby

Kamilari - Clay models

Minoan cemetery. Furnishings nowdays in Heraklion Archaeological Museum.

Harvesters vase from Hagia Triada (1 km)

Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Agia Triada, Megaron (1 km)

Necropolis. Hagia Triada, Ayia Triada, Agia Triada, Agia Trias.


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