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Rotasi: Korifi (Analipsi)

PKC4500
TITLERotasi: Korifi (Analipsi)
WGS84 34.998021° N, 25.194537° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 34.998021, 25.194537
LON/LAT 25.194537, 34.998021

DMS 34° 59' 52.8756" N,25° 11' 40.3332" E

W3Wpublisher, fractions, beeps
UTM35 S, 335235, 3874313
EGSA87 608860, 3873187

Elevation m882
Elevation feet 2893.7
RegionCrete
SubregionMonophatsion





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 191    'Korifi may have been used as a defensible habitation place ...','...or served as a higher acropolis for the proper settlement below.'


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 191,  Size: 1800 sq. m.  'The whole summit, c. 30 by 60 m, is covered with pottery (Minoan, Classical, Roman and later).'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 191, 'MM I-II(?), ...', 'A few MM or even earlier potsherds and chipped stone were noted around the chapel.'

2. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 191, 'MM I-II(?), ...', 'A few MM or even earlier potsherds and chipped stone were noted around the chapel.'

3. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 191, 'LM IIIC pottery, although not very numerous, is scattered in the summit and on the slopes over a large area ...'

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 191, ',,,, PG, ...'

NOTE

1.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada

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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., '89. Rotasi Korifi (Analipsi)', pg. 191.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C4500 is at 34.95455° N, 25.18442° E, a straight-line distance of 4 km and 911 m.