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The Khaniale Tekke Tombs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

R. W. Hutchinson  and
John Boardman
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The material from the Khaniale Tekke tombs was excavated by me in 1940, but most of it had not been photographed, and some vases had been left still unrepaired when the Germans invaded Crete, and they were inaccessible to me when I returned to Crete in 1945.

The presence of ‘Geometric’ tombs on this site was first reported to me by the foreman at Knossos, the late Emmanuel Akoumianos, whose eagle eye for ancient remains was noted by Sir Arthur Evans. Immediate excavation was necessary, since the owner, Dr. Hatzakis, who has generously foregone his claims for compensation, was proposing to erect a house there.

The first trial trench which I opened on 20th January 1940 disclosed a chamber tomb with a square chamber and a long, narrow dromos cut in the native kouskouras, that white, cretaceous marl which is so prominent a feature of the landscape in Central Crete.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 49 , November 1954 , pp. 215 - 228
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1954

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References

1 The drawings in Figs. 3 and 4 are by Miss E. A. B. Petty, and that in Fig. 2 by Mr. Piet de Jong. Of the photographs, those for Plates 20–22, 25–26 (some), 30 (76), and Fig. 5 were taken by Mr. Androulakes with the kind co-operation of Dr. N. Platon and of Mr. M. S. F. Hood, for Plates 24–26 (some) by Mr. J. M. Cook, for Fig. 6 by Mr. G. M. Young, for Plates 23–24 (some), 27–30 by Mr. J. Boardman. Mr. J. Boardman identified and mensured objects in Heraklion Museum and compiled the pottery and small Finds Catalogue from that made at the time of the excavation. To all of these, especially to Mr. Boardman, I tender my hearty thanks.

2 For the remnant of vaulting still preserved in situ see Plate 19 b, illustrating the typical Minoan tooling of the stones.

3 The outlines of the scales are deeper than the rest of the surface, and so have preserved the glaze, which may, have originally covered the whole vase.

4 No note 4.

5 Museum Benaki, Katalog der Goldschmiede-Arbeiten, pl. 28, no. 113.

6 Marinatos, S., BCH LX, pl. XIII.Google Scholar

7 Levi, D., Hesp XIV, pl. XVI.Google Scholar

8 L. Pollak, Goldschmiedearbeiten Nelidow, pl. 4, no. 10; Reichel, Griech. Goldrelief, pl. 8, no. 23; Kunze, , Gnomon XXI 6Google Scholar; de Jong considers they were not from the same mould.

9 Cf. the fine bronze Moschophoros in the collection of Dr. Giamalakis.

10 With the possible exception of the fanlight over the door.

11 Cf. Alexiou, , Kretika Khronika IV, pl. 14.Google Scholar