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A Late Minoan Tomb at Palaikastro1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

M. H. Smee
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A preliminary report of this tomb, dug by Bosanquet in 1902, appeared in BSA viii. 303–5, where it was termed the ‘Beehive Tomb’. This was a misleading term for what was in fact a rock-cut chamber tomb with a dromos. The contents of the tomb listed in that report were not subsequently published in full, although individual items have since been considered of sufficient importance to merit especial attention by scholars. It seems, therefore, worth while to publish all the surviving items of this interesting tomb group, and to re-examine the L.M. IIIA 2 early date assigned to it by Furumark.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 61 , November 1966 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1966

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References

2 Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery 308; Sandars, , AJA lxvii. 130 ff.Google Scholar

3 Furumark, loc. cit.

4 Bosanquet records that it was found just north of the road from Angathia to Roussolakkos, where an exposed larnax twenty yards further east led to its discovery on 7 May.

5 BSA viii. 304.

6 BSA Suppl. i. 117.

7 Sandars, , AJA lxvii. 130Google Scholar; Furumark, Chronology, 95.

8 BSA viii. 305.

9 Furumark, Chronology 95, discussing the dagger, is not so positive; either the tomb contains a ‘closed find’ of IIIA 2 early, or the dagger (with the lower pottery?) was deposited still earlier.

10 Cf. Dendra, Chamber Tomb no. 2, Persson, Royal Tombs at Dendra 108 ff.

11 The reference in brackets is to the original number given in the inventory of the tomb group in the preliminary report. BSA viii. 303, fig. 19.

12 Furumark, MycPot 407.

13 French, , BSA lviii. 45.Google Scholar

14 Furumark, MycPot 308, n. 1.

15 Cf. the IB rhyton, L.M., BSA Suppl. i, pl. xxi, top.Google Scholar

16 Furumark, MycPot 193.

17 Ibid. 309.

18 Furumark, MycPot 33; cf. a stirrup-jar from Aspa, Palaikastro 102, fig. 85b.

19 Cf. Furumark, MycPot 407, and fig. 71 d, etc.

20 BSA viii. 304.

21 Borda, Arte Cretese Micenea, pl. xxxvi.

22 BSA Suppl. i. 61.

23 Ibid. 111.

24 Ibid. 85.

25 Cf. Furumark, Chronology 103 and Evans, Prehistoric Tombs 127.

26 BSA Suppl. i. 111.

27 Furumark, MycPot. 51, n. 3; Gournia, pl. x, no. 4.

28 BSA suppl. i. 112.

29 Ibid., pl. xxv, i.

30 See Sandars, N. K., AJA lxvii. 130 ff.Google Scholar

31 Ibid. 125.

32 BSA viii. 304.

33 Sandars, N. K., AJA lxvii. 130Google Scholar; Furumark, Chronology 94–95.

34 Annuario vi–vii. 93 ff.

35 It is interesting that, in publishing the bronzes from the cemetery on Upper Gypsades, Miss Sandars makes reference to a suggestion by Hutchinson that in fact the other tomb furniture in the Palaikastro chamber tomb may well be closer to 1300 B.C. However, Hutchinson wishes to retain the dagger at a date close to 1400 B.C., preserving its position as the earliest of its type (BSA liii–liv. 233).

36 BSA Suppl. i, pl. xxv, c.

37 Evans, Prehistoric Tombs, fig. 98.

38 BSA liii–liv. 235.

39 BSA Suppl. i. 119 and pl. xxv, k.

40 Sandars, N. K., BSA liii–liv. 233 and fig. 32Google Scholar, and ‘The Antiquity of the One-edged Bronze Knife in the Aegean’ in PPS 1955, 176. Our knife is presumably that listed on page 190 (the reference should be k and not j), where it is suggested that it might have a vestigial flange.

41 Sandars, N. K., AJA lxvii. 130.Google Scholar

42 The excavators initially allocated this tomb to their L.M. IIIB period, BSA x. 196; but later, in BSA Suppl. i. 75 they appear to place it between the early part of the Third Period, that is IIIA, and the desertion of the town site in IIIB.