Site details

Chandras: Plakalona

PK	C4469
TITLE	Chandras: Plakalona
WGS84	35.09498° N, 26.103227° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.09498, 26.103227
LON/LAT	26.103227, 35.09498

DMS

35° 5' 41.928" N

26° 6' 11.6172" E

W3W	gymnasts, unfairly, eraser
UTM	35 S, 418262, 3883944
EGSA87	691567, 3885311

Elevation m	646
Elevation feet	2119.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Faure [1962], 39    '...un vaste ensemble de ruines ...', 'c'est visiblement un des établissements de repli des populations minoennes lors des grandes invasions, ...'
2.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 58    'A LM IIIC - SM - PG defensible site was mentioned by Faure ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Faure [1962]: 39, '...de ruines M.R.3, ...

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 58, 'A LM IIIC - SM - PG defensible site was mentioned by Faure ... at Plakalona ...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 58, 'A LM IIIC - SM - PG defensible site was mentioned by Faure ... at Plakalona ...'
    b.    Faure [1962]: 39, '...et protogéométriques; ...'

4. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 58, 'A LM IIIC - SM - PG defensible site was mentioned by Faure ... at Plakalona ...'
    b.    Faure [1962]: 39, '...subminoennes...

NOTES

1.  The location of this site is not certainly known to me (RHC). It is above the spring of Pentelis according to Nowicki [2000], p. 58, '10. Chandras Plakalona'. Also Faure [1962] 39 says of the hill Plakalona that it '...domine les sources du Pentelis, ...'. There is a sign at F3576 which says 'Panteli' and which, I presume, points to the spring. The spring itself must be located near F3577 and Topoguide shows an intermittent stream starting in that position. This would make Plakalona the hill just to the SW which is where I have placed the marker.

2.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

3.  Nowicki [2000] 58 says that the site is '... 40 minutes' walk south-west of Chandras.' It is just the opposite. The town is south-west of Plakalona hill.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Faure [1962]: Faure, Paul. ‘Cavernes et sites aux deux extrémités de la Crète’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (86:1), pp. 36-56. 1962., '4°', pg. 39. Online here.

2. 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., '10. Chandras Plakalona', pg. 58.