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Stavrakia Malevizou

PK	C4080
TITLE	Stavrakia Malevizou
WGS84	35.252476° N, 25.062455° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.252476, 25.062455
LON/LAT	25.062455, 35.252476

DMS

35° 15' 8.9136" N

25° 3' 44.838" E

W3W	bunk, splays, headless
UTM	35 S, 323729, 3902763
EGSA87	596505, 3901271

Elevation m	234
Elevation feet	767.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Malevyzion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Amphora.   Orsi [1897], 259
2.    Amphora.   BSA [1934], 91    'Orsi ... publishes a Geometric amphora from here ...'
3.    Pottery.   Kanta [1980], 16    'Mariani mentions "Mycenaean" bases from this village.'
4.    Pottery.   Pendlebury et al. [1933], 91    'Orsi (A.J.A. 1897, 259) publishes a Geometric amphora from here and Mariani (Mon. Ant. vi, 230) describes L.M. and Geometric vases, but the present inhabitants of the village know of no remains.'
5.    Pottery.   Eaby [2007], 108    'Sometime around 1895, two large Late Geometric cinerary urns and one amphora, ..., were recovered from the mountain slopes near the modern village.'
6.    Pottery.   Syriopoulos [1983], 290    '...cinerary urns.' ('...tephrodocha aggeia')

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 16, '..."Mycenaean" vases ...'

2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury et al. [1933]: 91, '...describes L.M. ... vases, ...'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Orsi [1897]: 259, '..., I believe that this vase, on account of its origin, is geometric rather than Mycenaean.'
    b.    BSA [1934]: 91, '...a Geometric amphora...'
    c.    Pendlebury et al. [1933]: 91, '...and Geometric vases, ...'

4. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 108, '...Late Geometric ...'
    b.    Syriopoulos [1983]: 290, '...late Geometric...'

NOTES

1. Site contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

2. Kanta [1980] 16 says: 'Mariani mentions "Mycenaean" vases from this village.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BSA [1934]: Annual of the British School at Athens. Athens. Greece. (35) 1934/1935., 'III. Malevizi Stavrakia', pg. 91. Online here.

2. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '67. Stavrakia', pg. 108. Online here.

3. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '6. Stavrakia', pg. 16.

4. Orsi [1897]: Orsi, Paolo. ‘Cretan Expedition V. Note on a Mycenaean Vase and on Some Geometric Vases of the Syllogos of Candia’, American Journal of Archaeology (1:3) 251-265, 1897., 'V.', pg. 259. Online here.

5. Pendlebury et al. [1933]: Pendlebury, J.D.S., M. B. Money-Coutts, E. Eccles. ‘Journeys in Crete, 1934’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (33) 80-100, 1932-1933., 'Stavrakia.', pg. 91. Online here.

6. Syriopoulos [1983]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Eisagoge eis ten archaian elleniken Istorian. Oi Metabatikoi Chronoi Apo tes Mykenaikes eis ten Archaiken Periodon 1200-700 pch. Vol. 1. Athens. 1983., '326. Staurakia', pg. 290. Greek language source