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Pyla-Kokkinochremos

PKC1574
TITLEPyla–Kokkinochremos
WGS84 34.989956° N, 33.715484° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 34.989956, 33.715484
LON/LAT 33.715484, 34.989956

DMS 34° 59' 23.8416" N,33° 42' 55.7424" E

W3Wbluffing, flotation, swaggers
UTM36 S, 565298, 3872163
EGSA87 1387973, 3915062

Elevation m50
Elevation feet 164
RegionCyprus





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Brown [2013], 128    '...appears in all other respects to have been a Late Cypriot community.'
2.    hab.   Karageorghis [1997], 129    'The entire plateau was ringed with about 200 complexes or building units along its edge ...'
3.    Settlement.   Dietrich et al. [2015], 34    '...the LC IIC - LC IIIA settlement probably covered the whole surface of the plateau (c. 6ha).'


SITE SIZE

- Karageorghis [1997]  p. 128,  Size:  sq. m.  Size not given but ' The entire plateau was ringed with about 200 complexes or building units along its edge,...'

- Dietrich et al. [2015]  p. 34,  Size: 60000 sq. m.  '...the LC IIC – LC IIIA settlement probably covered the whole surface of the plateau (c. 6ha).'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic IIC: (1480 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Dietrich et al. [2015]: 34, '...the LC IIC - LC IIIA settlement probably covered the whole surface of the plateau (c. 6ha).'

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Karageorghis [1997]: 129, 'The relatively high percentage of Late Minoan III pottery at the site, ...'

3. Late Cycladic IIIA: (1420 BC - 1350 BC)
    a.    Dietrich et al. [2015]: 34, '...the LC IIC - LC IIIA settlement probably covered the whole surface of the plateau (c. 6ha).'

4. Late Cypriot IIC: (1340 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Karageorghis [1997]: 129, 'The vast majority of the pottery was of Late Cypriot IIC date...','The site is new, built at the very end of LC IIC.'
    b.    Brown [2013]: 128, 'The Late Cypriot IIC settlement at Kokkinokremos ...'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Karageorghis [1997]: 129, '...including a late Mycenaean IIIB bell krater ...'

6. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Karageorghis [1997]: 129, 'Whether they imitate Late Helladic IIIB2'

7. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Karageorghis [1997]: 129, '..or Late Helladic IIIC:1b...'

NOTE

1.  The supposed 'Mycenaean' character of this site is disputed. The principal advocate for Mycenaean influence is Karageorghis. For a corrective see Brown [2013], 126 ff. Also see the notes for 'C1573'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Brown [2013]:  Brown, Michael. ‘Waterways and the Political Geography of South-East Cyprus in the Second Millenium BC’, Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 108, 121-136. 2013., 'Larnaca Bay: Urbanism and Maritime Connections', pg. 126. Online here.

2.  Dietrich et al. [2015]:  Dietrich, Manfried et al.. Sonderdruck aus Ugarit-Forschungen. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde Syrien-Palästinas begründet von Manfried Dietrich und Oswald Loretz unter Mitarbeit von Josef Tropper. Herausgegeben von Manfried Dietrich und Ingo Kottsieper. Beratergremium J. Bretschneider, K.A. Metzler, R. Schmitt, W.H. van Soldt, J.-P. Vita. Band 46. 2015., 'Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Preliminary Report on the 2014 Excavations', pg. 1.

3.  Karageorghis [1997]:  Karageorghis, V.. ‘Mycenaean 'Acropoleis' in the Aegean and Cyprus: some Comparisons’, Cline et al [1997], pp. 127-136., '', pg. 128. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1574 is at 34.98048° N, 33.71622° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 57 m.