Site details

Patsos: Khalara

PK	C7419
TITLE	Patsos: Khalara
WGS84	35.24539° N, 24.564309° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.24539, 24.564309
LON/LAT	24.564309, 35.24539

DMS

35° 14' 43.404" N

24° 33' 51.5124" E

W3W	brotherhood, sandwiched, forgiveness
UTM	35 S, 278382.26, 3902975.78
EGSA87	551192, 3900114

Elevation m	423
Elevation feet	1387.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Amari

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Hood and Warren [1966], 187    'Minoan pithos burials (?).'
2.    Pottery.   Hood and Warren [1966], 187    Almost no traces found by Hood et al. '... except the bowl rim .... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 187, ' ... which he (Faure, RHC) assigns to the end of Early Minoan ... '

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 187, ' ... which he (Faure, RHC) assigns to the end of Early Minoan or beginning of Middle Minoan.'

3. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 187, 'Pendlebury found sherds which he assigned to M.M. III in a cave at 'Khalara' west of the village .... '

NOTES

1. Placed notionally ~600 m. west of Patsos.

2. Hood & Warren (HW66) p. 187, no. 34 , No. 34

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Warren [1966]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '34. Patsos: 'Khalara' (Χάλαρα)', pg. 187. Online here.