The site is discussed in MariaPapathanassiouMichaelHoskinHelenPapadopoulou, “Orientations of tombs at the Late-Minoan cemetery at Armenoi, Crete”, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy), no. 17 (1992), S43–55; idem, “Orientations of tombs at Armenoi, Crete: Addenda”, ibid., no. 18 (1993), S54.
2.
Like the tombs in our “Addenda”, the four tombs excavated in 1993 were located at the very bottom of the site, just south of Tomb 210. There, a flat ridge with apparent altitude 8½° conceals the mountain from view. The tombs are numbered from 217 to 220 and have azimuths 129°, 132½°, 135° and 118° respectively.
3.
The computer program supplied by Dr Ruggles confirmed that tombs 217, 218 and 219 all faced south of the midwinter sunrise, which for these tombs occurred with azimuth just over 127°, nearly 8° north of the direction faced by Tomb 219. On the other hand, all these new tombs faced within the range of moonrise (azimuth at major standstill just under 136° when the altitude is 8½°). So indeed did Tomb 8 (azimuth 133°, altitude 6°), which we had previously thought to face marginally too far south but which comes at the extreme of the lunar range when parallax is taken into account.
4.
When the northerly facing tombs were recomputed with the new programme, we confirmed that Tombs 38 and 39 (azimuth 53½° and 52½° respectively, altitude 1½°) faced a little north of the range of moonrise (major standstill: 56°.0, altitude 2°) but by 2½° and 3½°, a fraction of a degree more than previously calculated.
5.
See Papathanassiou, op. cit. (1992), ref. 14.
6.
AntonioJuan BelmonteRicardoJosé Belmonte, “Astronomía, cultura y religión en la prehistoria de la Península lbérica: Los dólmenes de Valencia de Alcántara”, Tribuna de astronomía, no. 116/117 (July/August 1995), 18–25, 72, p. 24.
