Site details

Atsipades: Fonises (Prinokefala) Area C

PK	C5114
TITLE	Atsipades: Fonises (Prinokefala) Area C
WGS84	35.21866° N, 24.457673° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.21866, 24.457673
LON/LAT	24.457673, 35.21866

DMS

35° 13' 7.176" N

24° 27' 27.6228" E

W3W	stalwarts, persistence, contact
UTM	35 S, 268602, 3900254
EGSA87	541503, 3897099

Elevation m	525
Elevation feet	1722.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Hagios Vasileios

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Hood and Warren [1966], 178    ' ... with pottery and stones from house walls cover the steep terraced northern slopes below a rocky peak ... '
2.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 204    '...indicate clearly that Area C was densely built-over.'
3.    Pottery.   Hood and Warren [1966], 178    Pottery is listed on Hood and Warren [1966] p. 178.
4.    Settlement.   Hood and Warren [1966], 178    'Extensive L.M. III 'refuge' settlement high on the side of Mt. Kouroupa ... '
5.    Wall.   Hood and Warren [1966], 178    'On the west this area is bounded by a wall, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 206,  Size: 4800 sq. m.  '...which covers an area about 120 by 40 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 178, 'Extensive L.M. III 'refuge' settlement ... '

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 206, 'Most of the pottery on the surface represents the LM IIIC period and mainly its middle and late phases.'

NOTE

1. Area C does not represent the whole of the site. For a discussion of the site components and sizes see Nowicki [2000] 204-6.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Warren [1966]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '15. Atsipadhes: 'Fonises' and 'Lakkos'', pg. 178. 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., '99. Atsipades Fonises (Prinokefala)', pg. 204.