Site details
Oreino: Petrokopia
| PK | C5100 |
| TITLE | Oreino: Petrokopia |
| WGS84 | 35.064803° N, 25.909378° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.064803, 25.909378 |
| LON/LAT | 25.909378, 35.064803 |
| DMS | 35° 3' 53.2908" N | , | 25° 54' 33.7608" E |
| W3W | shoelace, notations, perpetuity |
| UTM | 35 S, 400555, 3880773 |
| EGSA87 | 673959, 3881608 |
| Elevation m | 708 |
| Elevation feet | 2322.8 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Siteia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE hab
TYPE
1. hab. Nowicki [2000], 80 'Apparently, it was neither a settlement nor a farmhouse. ...its function may have been a watch tower or guard station on the way to the Oreino valley.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 81, 'The potsherds ... indicate that it was used ... during the LM IIIC (PG?) period.'
2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 81, 'The potsherds ... indicate that it was used ... during the LM IIIC (PG?) period.'
NOTE
1. For a plan see Nowicki [2000] fig. 32, p. 81.
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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., '21. Oreino Kato Ellinika (Petrokopia)', pg. 80.