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Vryses: Profitis Elias

PKC2800
TITLEVryses: Profitis Elias
WGS84 35.237126° N, 25.620496° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.237126, 25.620496
LON/LAT 25.620496, 35.237126

DMS 35° 14' 13.6536" N,25° 37' 13.7856" E

W3Wpioneers, maturity, saunters
UTM35 S, 374478, 3900212
EGSA87 647303, 3900254

Elevation m437
Elevation feet 1433.7
RegionCrete
SubregionMirabello





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 113    'The extensive Dark Age settlement is located on the conical hill which rises directly east of Vryses, ...'


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 114,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  The site covers approximately an area 150 by 100 m, but the Dark Age settlement may have been bigger, ...

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 113, 'The LM IIIC period is attested by many fragments of a typical fabric, ...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 113, 'The PG and G pottery is represented by coarse ware ...'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 113, 'The PG and G pottery is represented by coarse ware ...'

NOTE

1.  Contributed by Professor Sarah Murray of the University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., '42. Vryses Profitis Elias', pg. 113.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C2800 is at 35.21965° N, 25.71364° E, a straight-line distance of 8 km and 663 m.