Lefkandi
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540909
38.411782, 23.682171
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13447 (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- None
- Lefkandi connection Euboea (island) (unspecified date range)
- Lefkandi Heroon(?) located at Lefkandi (unspecified date range)
settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 F4 Lefkandi
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Lefkandi, Xeropolis/Tomba
The Toumba site at Lefkandi, discovered in 1980, revealed an important structure interpreted as an Iron Age heroön; this was perhaps the first hekatompedos
(100-foot building) in the Greek world. The site comprised the ritually dismantled structure, the cremation burial of an elite male, inhumation burial of an elite female, and four ritually sacrificed horses. Following the elite burials a number of other burials approached, but did not encroach upon, the temenos.
J. Fossey, J. Morin, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, DARMC, G. Reger, and R. Talbert, 'Lefkandi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540909> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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