PKey Report

PK	C5123
TITLE	Karfi
WGS84	35.217619° N, 25.470399° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.217619, 25.470399
LON/LAT	25.470399, 35.217619

DMS

35° 13' 3.4284" N

25° 28' 13.4364" E

W3W	shopkeepers, cried, slicing
UTM	35 S, 360786, 3898248
EGSA87	633677, 3897878

Elevation m	1112
Elevation feet	3648.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1. hab. Myers et al. [1992], 116 'Karphi is important as an extensively excavated large town from the very end of the Minoan era.'

2. hab. Kanta [1980], 121 '...the town of Karphi...'

3. hab. Pendlebury [1937], 63 'Excavated Area'

4. Sanctuary. Faure [1967], 122 'Le sanctuaire MM, ... '

5.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 159    '...mostly a LM IIIC settlement, ...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 162,  Size: 30000 sq. m.  'The entire area occupied by the settlement can be estimated as measuring about 30,000 sq. m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 118 'MM shrine; ... '

    b.    Faure [1967]: 122 'Le sanctuaire MM, avec des offrandes ... '

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 163 '..., Karfi is the site of a MM I-II peak sanctuary, ...'

3. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 163 '..., Karfi is the site of a MM I-II peak sanctuary, ...'

4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Kanta [1980]: 121 'The presence of some megaron-like houses at Karphi ... is not unparalleled in LM III.'

5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 159 '..., which represents mostly a LM IIIC settlement, ...', 'The architectural remains on the summit of Karfi date most probably to the LM IIIC period.'

    b.    Kanta [1980]: 121 '...the town of Karphi was first inhabited during a relatively early stage in LM III C...'

    c.    Myers et al. [1992]: 118 ' ...; LM IIIC (- PG?) settlement and cemeteries; ... '

    d.    Kanta [2003]: 180 The presence of early III C sherd material was very evident.

6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Pendlebury [1937]: 134 See Pendlebury's description for the use of the term, 'PG', on this page. He prefers to use the term 'Intermediate Period' for Karphi's floruit.

    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 118 ' ...; LM IIIC (- PG?) settlement and cemeteries; ... '

7. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 163 '...end of SM, ...'

8. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)

    a.    Faure [1967]: 122 ' ..., a été recouvert par une bourgade sub- minoenne de refuge.'

9. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 118 ' ...; A - C shrine at Vitzelovrysis spring?'

NOTE

1. Karfi is a complex site. For full discussion see Nowicki [2000] pp. 157-164 and especially the very fine figures 88-93 at that place.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Deger-Jalkotzy and Zavadil [2006]: Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid and Michaela Zavadil (eds.). LH III C Chronology And Synchronisms II; LH III C Middle. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, October 29th and 30th, 2004., '',

2. Faure [1967]: Faure, Paul. ‘Nouvelles recherches sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (91:1), pp. 114-150, 1967., '- Καρφί Λασιθίου', pg. 122. Online here.

3. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '1. Karphi', pg. 121.

4. Kanta [2003]: Kanta, Athanasia. ‘The Citadel of Kastrokephala and the Date of the Minoan Refuge Citadels’, In Deger-Jalkotzy and Zavadil [2006] 167-182, '', Online here.

5. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '15 Karphi', pg. 116.

6. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '67. Kera Karfi', pg. 157.

7. Pendlebury [1937]: Pendlebury, John D.. ‘Karphi. A City of Refuge of the Early Iron Age in Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (38), pp. 57-145, 1937/1938, '63', pg. 57. This is the original excavation report by Pendlebury et al. It contains excellent diagrams and photographs.
Online here.