Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 08, 2020 10:55 AM
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History
Mycenaean burial ground located approximately 8 kilometers west of Nemea containing 20 tombs dated to the 15th century BCE. All but two of the burials were looted in the 1970s, but the illicit finds were retrieved and repatriated to Greece in 1996.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/720628459
37.8402162, 22.5831762
- Central Point:
- OSM location of Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia (1600 BC - 1200 BC)
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- Αηδόνια (Aidonia: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/720628459> [accessed: 06 December 2023]
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