Site details
Kalamaki Kephala
| PK | C6226 |
| TITLE | Kalamaki Kephala |
| WGS84 | 35.25101° N, 26.228517° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.25101, 26.228517 |
| LON/LAT | 26.228517, 35.25101 |
| DMS | 35° 15' 3.636" N | , | 26° 13' 42.6612" E |
| W3W | whoops, resistant, formed |
| UTM | 35 S, 429816, 3901152 |
| EGSA87 | 702602, 3902867 |
| Elevation m | 166 |
| Elevation feet | 544.6 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Siteia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Peak Sanctuary
TYPE
1. Peak Sanctuary. Nowicki [2012], 145 Described as one of the four peak sanctuaries of north-east Siteia.PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
a. Nowicki [2012]: , 'A few sherds that were recorded on our visits dated to the FN, MM I, and Roman periods.'
NOTES
1. Position derived by matching the features on the ground (as visible in Google Earth) with Figure 16.6 in Nowicki [2012] 147.
2. See the photograph in Soetens et al. [2002] p. 8, Fig. 2.
3. The area around Itanos and stretching to both E and W coasts has been the object of investigation by the Prospection archéologique de la péninsule d’Itanos or 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey'. Their main website (French) is here. They have made available a very usable searchable database of their sites here and which is described here and here. An article (by Alain Duplouy, Anna Lucia d’Agata, Oliver Rackham, and Jennifer Moody, 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey', ΠEΠAΓMEA IΑ ∆IEΘOΥΣ KHTOΛOΓIKOΥ ΣΥE∆IOΥ, pp.79-84, 2018) which describes the survey is here.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Nowicki [2012]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. ‘East Cretan Peak Sanctuaries Revisited’, Mantzourani and Betancourt, eds. [2012], pp. 139-154, '', pg. 145.
Online here.
2. Soetens et al. [2002]: Soetens, Steven with Apostolos Sarris and Achilleas Tripolitsiotis. ‘GIS Modeling of the Minoan Peak Sanctuaries of East Crete’, , '', Online here.