Site details

Knossos: Stratigraphic Museum Extension

PK	C5555
TITLE	Knossos: Stratigraphic Museum Extension
WGS84	35.299172° N, 25.159347° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.299172, 25.159347
LON/LAT	25.159347, 35.299172

DMS

35° 17' 57.0192" N

25° 9' 33.6492" E

W3W	boggles, mime, costs
UTM	35 S, 332641, 3907775
EGSA87	605260, 3906548

Elevation m	124
Elevation feet	406.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cult

TYPE

1.    Cult.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 48    '...exposed a LATE MINOAN III A SHRINE and deposits of pottery ...'
2.    Cult.   Popham [1970], 191    'Clearly, therefore, we had found the ruins of a Minoan shrine.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Popham [1970]: 191, '...was found a decorated L.M. I sherd.'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '...pottery of L. M. III A and L. M. III B as well as Hellenistic date ...'
    b.    Popham [1970]: 191, '...; this suggests a date towards the end of L.M. IIIA.', 'There are, then, good grounds for suggesting that our shrine was in use in the second half of the L.M. IIIA period, say between 1350 and 1300 B.C.'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '...pottery of L. M. III A and L. M. III B as well as Hellenistic date ...'

NOTE

1. There is a good drawing of the remains of this shrine in Popham [1970], p. 193, Fig. 2.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Smyth [1981]: Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, 'The STRATIGRAPHIC MUSEUM EXTENSION (WORKROOMS)', pg. 48. Online here.

2. Popham [1970]: Popham, Mervyn. ‘A Late Minoan Shrine at Knossos’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (65), pp. 191-194, 1970., 'A Late Minoan Shrine at Knossos', pg. 191. Online here.