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Petras: Kephala (Hill II)

PKC5706
TITLEPetras: Kephala (Hill II)
WGS84 35.197952° N, 26.118152° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.197952, 26.118152
LON/LAT 26.118152, 35.197952

DMS 35° 11' 52.6272" N,26° 7' 5.3472" E

W3Wunpacked, phosphorus, minutiae
UTM35 S, 419723, 3895352
EGSA87 692685, 3896762

Elevation m59
Elevation feet 193.6
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Vavouranakis [2007], 48    'Kephala was first inhabited in FN - early EM I.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 48, '...and in LMIIIC the settlement moved back to the Kephala hill.'

NOTE

1.  For more on this large and complex site see the essays in Tsipopoulou, Metaxia, Petras, Siteia; 25 years of excavations and studies, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Volume 16. Narayana Press. ISBN: 978 87 7124 053 5. 2012.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Vavouranakis [2007]:  Vavouranakis, Giorgos. Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age. BAR International Series, no. 1606, 2007, 'Petras', pg. 48. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5706 is at 35.2002° N, 26.11894° E, a straight-line distance of 259.1 m.