Site details

Neapoli: Kastri

PK	C4482
TITLE	Neapoli: Kastri
WGS84	35.252858° N, 25.572512° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.252858, 25.572512
LON/LAT	25.572512, 35.252858

DMS

35° 15' 10.2888" N

25° 34' 21.0432" E

W3W	dialect, incarnation, humbles
UTM	35 S, 370137, 3902018
EGSA87	642909, 3901929

Elevation m	605
Elevation feet	1984.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    settlement.   Eaby [2007], 36    'An LM IIIC - SM/PG settlement was identified through survey on the summit of this hill, ...'
2.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2000], 110    'Sherds on the surface may indicate erosion rather than the extension of the LM IIIC settlement.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 112, 'Kastri represents the typical Lasithian pattern of settlement and belongs to the group of early Dark Age sites which were inhabited during LM IIIC....'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 36, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG settlement...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 112, '..., beginning of PG (probably very limited occupation).
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 36, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG settlement...'

3. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 36, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG settlement...'

NOTES

1. Contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

2. The mandras identified by Nowicki are at approx. 35.252001° N, 25.574242° E, the tholos at approx. 35.251760° N, 25.574252° E and the tentatively identified cemetery at 35.250769° N, 25.573863° E. I take the pentagonal enclosure to be the 'vineyard' although it's clear that vines have not been planted there for some years. Eaby follows Nowicki.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '11. Kastri (Neapolis/Vrachasi)', pg. 36. 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., '40. Neapoli (Vrachasi) Kastri', pg. 110. A complex site. See Nowicki's exposition on 111-112.