Site details

Krios

PK	C1434
TITLE	Krios
WGS84	36.612046° N, 27.138161° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	36.612046, 27.138161
LON/LAT	27.138161, 36.612046

DMS

36° 36' 43.3656" N

27° 8' 17.3796" E

W3W	chant, toot, proofing
UTM	35 S, 512355, 4051846
EGSA87	780527, 4056135

Elevation m	66
Elevation feet	216.5
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Nisyros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   BSA [1988], 292
2.    Lithics.   Melas [1988], 291    'There are again sporadic pottery sherds and Yali obsidian over the low terraces extending east and NE of the windmill.'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [2018], 411    'Melas reported sherds probably Mycenaean from four locations in the vicinity of Mandraki: ..., on Krios, ... '
4.    Sherds.   Melas [1988], 291    'There are again sporadic pottery sherds and Yali obsidian over the low terraces extending east and NE of the windmill.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Melas [1988]: 291, 'Again the chronological span of the pottery is fairly wide, ranging from Late Chalcolithic down to classical, Hellenistic and Roman times.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [2018]: 411, 'Melas reported sherds probably Mycenaean from four locations in the vicinity of Mandraki: ..., on Krios, ... '

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    BSA [1988]: 292,

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    BSA [1988]: 292,

NOTE

1. Additional: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby, 'Notes from the Dodecanese', The Annual of the British School at Athens (57) pp. 154-175, 1962, esp. p. 169. Online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BSA [1988]: Annual of the British School at Athens, Athens, Greece. (83) 1988., '', pg. 292. Online here.

2. Melas [1988]: Melas, M.. ‘Exploration in the Dodecanese: New Prehistoric and Mycenaean Finds’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, (83), pp. 283-311. 1988., '5. Krios', pg. 291. Online here.

3. Simpson [2018]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition. published online under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. 2018, 'Nisyros (Il. 2.676)', pg. 410. Online here.