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Dhrapanokephalo

PKC5796
TITLEDhrapanokephalo
WGS84 35.446857° N, 24.238397° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 35.446857, 24.238397
LON/LAT 24.238397, 35.446857

DMS 35° 26' 48.6852" N,24° 14' 18.2292" E

W3Wticketing, superstores, unnerves
UTM35 S, 249345, 3926105
EGSA87 521486, 3922337

Elevation m506
Elevation feet 1660.1
RegionCrete
SubregionApokoronas





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Peak Sanctuary

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Moody [1987],     'In 1969 Vardhinoyiannis found a bronze double axe and MM sherds on the peak. Peatfield and I visited the site and found a figurine frag and other sherds which date to MMIII/LM as well as a small enclosure.'
2.    Peak Sanctuary.   Moody [1987],     'FUNCTION: Minoan-peak sanctuary?'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: N? EM? MM MMIII/LM'

2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: N? EM? MM MMIII/LM'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Moody [1987]:  Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'Appendix III: Site Catalog, DPK3', Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5796 is at 35.45628° N, 24.25214° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 624 m.