Site details

Koumasa Korakies

PK	C4114
TITLE	Koumasa Korakies
WGS84	34.982942° N, 25.014923° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	34.982942, 25.014923
LON/LAT	25.014923, 34.982942

DMS

34° 58' 58.5912" N

25° 0' 53.7228" E

W3W	sympathetic, tempting, answering
UTM	35 S, 318808, 3872951
EGSA87	592486, 3871333

Elevation m	395
Elevation feet	1295.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Monophatsion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Sanctuary.   Faure [1967], 125    ' ... un sanctuaire construit, a plusieurs salles, ... '
2.    Settlement.   BCH Online, 3409    'The excavated areas were apparently used for storage, and contained mostly pottery plus stone vessels and tools, shell, animal bone, and burnt material', 'The visible architectural remains ...revealed that the settlement occupied almost the entire saddle of the hill ...'

SITE SIZE

- BCH Online  p. 3409,  Size: 30000 sq. m.  '...and extended over at least 30 stremmata.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Faure [1967]: 125, ' ... : MM 2 et MR 3 b.'

2. Neopalatial: (1700 BC - 1380 BC)
    a.    BCH Online: 3409, 'All the areas investigated produced Neopalatial pottery...'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Faure [1967]: 125, ' ... : MM 2 et MR 3 b.'

NOTES

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

2.  The report of the original excavator, Stephanos A. Xanthoudides, may be found here. Koumasa is described on pp. 49-50. There are several components to this site. There is the necrotapheion at C5328, an extensive settlement from EM and LM periods, roughly around C4114, and a cult building or shrine by F4508. Xanthoudides supposed that the EM settlement lay under the later MM building at C4114.

3.  An extended, mostly neopalatial, site with cemetery, dwellings, temples.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Koumasa', no. 3409. Online here. Online here.

2. Faure [1967]: Faure, Paul. ‘Nouvelles recherches sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (91:1), pp. 114-150, 1967., 'Κορακιές, ou "Ιερόν της Κουμασας', pg. 125. Online here.