Site details

Krousonas: Koupo

PK	C5128
TITLE	Krousonas: Koupo
WGS84	35.225613° N, 24.980417° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.225613, 24.980417
LON/LAT	24.980417, 35.225613

DMS

35° 13' 32.2068" N

24° 58' 49.5012" E

W3W	digress, translate, shops
UTM	35 S, 316204, 3899932
EGSA87	589071, 3898215

Elevation m	570
Elevation feet	1870.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Malevyzion

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2000], 181    'There are, ..., many fragments dating back to Geometric and Archaic and a few even earlier sherds from the LM III-PG period.'
2.    Sherds.   Pendlebury [1965], 325    'Sherds on Koupo, seen by Miss Money-Coutts and Miss Eccles, ...'
3.    Sherds.   Pendlebury et al. [1933], 92    '..., but there are walls and stones all over the summit and many sherds of every period from Geometric to Roman.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 181, '...even earlier sherds from the LM III-PG period.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 182, '... in depressions underneath a good deposit of LM IIIC pots was unearthed.', 'The earliest architectural phases (LM IIIC - SM) are mostly destroyed, ...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 181, '...even earlier sherds from the LM III-PG period.'

4. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 181, 'The earliest architectural phases (LM IIIC - SM) are mostly destroyed, ...'

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 181, '...Geometric and Archaic...'
    b.    Pendlebury [1965]: 323, Section Name: 'SITES WHERE GEOMETRIC REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND'
    c.    Pendlebury et al. [1933]: 92, '...every period from Geometric to Roman.'

6. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 182, 'The building excavated by her appeared to date from the LG and A phases, ...'

7. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 181, '...Geometric and Archaic...', 'The building excavated by her appeared to date from the LG and A phases, ...'

NOTE

1. Of the location of this site Taramelli says that the hill of Koupho is 'A sud-est del villagio, ad un quarto d'ora di distanza da esso, si erge un colle detto to Koupho (transl.), di forma tondeggiante, ...' (322) Taramelli noticed stairs leading up to an acropolis(?) and a fountain. There is a good map in Taramelli [1899] 326.

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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., '81. Krousonas Koupo', pg. 181.

2. 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., 'Krousonas.', pg. 92. Online here.

3. Pendlebury [1965]: Pendlebury, John D.. The Archaeology of Crete. Norton, 1965., 'Krousonas', pg. 325.

4. Taramelli [1899]: Taramelli, Antonio. ‘Ricerche Archeologiche Cretesi’, Monumenti Antichi [ix], pp. 285-446. 1899., '', pg. 322. Online here.