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Oreino: Petrokopia

PKC5100
TITLEOreino: 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

W3Wshoelace, notations, perpetuity
UTM35 S, 400555, 3880773
EGSA87 673959, 3881608

Elevation m708
Elevation feet 2322.8
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





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.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5100 is at 35.03252° N, 25.91927° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 694 m.