Site details

Profitis Elias: Rokka

PK	C2810
TITLE	Profitis Elias: Rokka
WGS84	35.203554° N, 25.103921° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.203554, 25.103921
LON/LAT	25.103921, 35.203554

DMS

35° 12' 12.7944" N

25° 6' 14.1156" E

W3W	juke, frames, fellow
UTM	35 S, 327399, 3897264
EGSA87	600338, 3895886

Elevation m	438
Elevation feet	1437
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 183    'It seems that the earlier Minoan settlement at Visala/Vitsiles, ..., was moved to the more defensible hill of Rokka ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '...at some stage of the LM III period, ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, 'Only a few sherds roughly dated to the LM IIIC - PG period have been seen by the author on the eastern slope of the western summit of Rokka ...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '..., and developed through Protogeometric and Geometric into the big Archaic city of Lykastos.', 'Only a few sherds roughly dated to the LM IIIC - PG period have been seen by the author on the eastern slope of the western summit of Rokka ...'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '..., and developed through Protogeometric and Geometric into the big Archaic city of Lykastos.'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '..., and developed through Protogeometric and Geometric into the big Archaic city of Lykastos.'

NOTE

1. The associated sites of Korifi is at 35.209758° N, 25.113112° E. The site of Visala/Vitsiles is at 35.206716° N, 25.111686° E. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '82. Profitis Elias/Lykastos', pg. 182.