Site details

Praisos: Second Acropolis

PK	C5139
TITLE	Praisos: Second Acropolis
WGS84	35.124726° N, 26.087593° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.124726, 26.087593
LON/LAT	26.087593, 35.124726

DMS

35° 7' 29.0136" N

26° 5' 15.3348" E

W3W	accounted, mongrels, impaired
UTM	35 S, 416867, 3887256
EGSA87	690073, 3888580

Elevation m	279
Elevation feet	915.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 59    'About 200 m to the north-west lies the Second Acropolis, slightly lower and much more accessible than the first.'
2.    hab.   Myers et al. [1992], 256    'Praisos is an Archaic-Classical-Hellenistic city in the far eastern end of Crete.'
3.    hab.   Lauffer ed. [1999], 564    '..., lag die antike Stadt P., ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Lauffer ed. [1999]: 564, 'Die ältesten Spuren menschlicher Ansiedlung sind hier neolithische und minoische Scherben.'

2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 58, 'At the end of LM IIIB there was a concentration of population not only on the acropoleis of Praisos, ...'

NOTES

1. See the outstanding detailed diagram of Acropoleis 1 and 2 in AR[1992-3] 78, fig. 57.

2. Good summaries in Myers [1992] 256, 'I. IMPORTANCE', and in Lauffer ed. [1999], s.v. 'Praisos', 564.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AR[1992]: Archaeological Reports. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (39) 1992-1993., 'Praisos.', pg. 77. Online here.

2. Lauffer ed. [1999]: Lauffer, Siegfried (ed.). Griechenland; Lexikon des historischen Stätten; Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg, 1999., 'Praisos', pg. 564.

3. Marshall and Bosanquet [1901]: Marshall, J.H. and R.C. Bosanquet. ‘Excavations at Praesos. I’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (8), 231-270. 1901., 'Excavations at Praesos. I.', pg. 231. Online here.

4. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '37 Praisos', pg. 256.

5. 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., '11. Praisos', pg. 58.