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Knossos: Stratigraphic Museum M. House

PKC5559
TITLEKnossos: Stratigraphic Museum M. House
WGS84 35.299144° N, 25.159488° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.299144, 25.159488
LON/LAT 25.159488, 35.299144

DMS 35° 17' 56.9184" N,25° 9' 34.1568" E

W3Wappealed, scared, pass
UTM35 S, 332654, 3907771
EGSA87 605273, 3906546

Elevation m123
Elevation feet 403.5
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 48    'On the east side part of a substatial house was revealed with stratified M. M. III, ... deposits.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '...M. M. III, ...'

2. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '..., L. M. I A, ...'

3. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '..., L. M. I B...'

4. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '..., and L. M. II deposits.'

5. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, 'Some L. M. III material including L. M. III C was recovered ...'

6. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, 'Some L. M. III material including L. M. III C was recovered ...'

7. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 48, '... together with a fine Subminoan pyxis.'

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, '188. STRATIGRAPHIC MUSEUM SOUNDINGS', pg. 48. 'Traces of occupation in Protogeometric, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman times were also noted.'
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Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5559 is at 35.33393° N, 25.19138° E, a straight-line distance of 4 km and 821 m.