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Ayia Sophia: Minoan Villa

PKC5611
TITLEAyia Sophia: Minoan Villa
WGS84 35.169422° N, 24.699202° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.169422, 24.699202
LON/LAT 24.699202, 35.169422

DMS 35° 10' 9.9192" N,24° 41' 57.1272" E

W3Wsurges, icing, tagged
UTM35 S, 290463, 3894256
EGSA87 563523, 3891767

Elevation m263
Elevation feet 862.9
RegionCrete
SubregionAmari





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Hood et al. [1964], 78    '...traces of a Minoan villa.'


SITE SIZE

- Hood et al. [1964]  p. 78,  Size: 800 sq. m.  'The traces of walls built with large stones embrace an area of about 40 m. from west to east by 15-20 m. from north to south.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 78, 'The pottery we saw appeared to be M.M., ...'

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 78, '..., with one or two fragments which might be L.M. I.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood et al. [1964]:  Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '31. Ayios Ioanis; (3) 'Kartsali'', pg. 78. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5611 is at 35.09788° N, 24.69252° E, a straight-line distance of 7 km and 962 m.