Site details

Viannos: Korakia

PK	C4106
TITLE	Viannos: Korakia
WGS84	35.055574° N, 25.407275° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.055574, 25.407275
LON/LAT	25.407275, 35.055574

DMS

35° 3' 20.0664" N

25° 24' 26.19" E

W3W	woodworker, dividing, weirder
UTM	35 S, 354753, 3880366
EGSA87	628185, 3879823

Elevation m	628
Elevation feet	2060.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Viannos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 139    'It is possible that Korakia was a settlement founded by the inhabitants of Loutraki Kandilioro when the latter was abandoned...'
2.    Sherds.   Hood et al. [1964], 83    'Pendlebury (AC 343) noted Archaic sherds here.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 83, 'Two worn fragments of tripod feet, one of thin, the other of thick, oval section, should be Minoan.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, Based on the idea that Viannos Korakia may have been settled in the LM IIIC. '...by the inhabitants of Loutraki Kandilioro when the latter was abandoned (probably in LM IIIC).'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, 'I have seen fragments which were of PG or G date, ...'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, 'I have seen fragments which were of PG or G date, ...'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 83, '...Archaic sherds...'

NOTES

1. Site contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

2. 'It is possible that Korakia was a settlement founded by the inhabitants of Loutraki Kandilioro...'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood et al. [1964]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '35. Biannos (modern Vianno)', pg. 83. Online here.

2. 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., '58. Viannos Korakia', pg. 138.