| PK | C5562 |
| TITLE | Knossos: Archaic Excavation |
| WGS84 | 35.297494° N, 25.160788° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.297494, 25.160788 |
| LON/LAT | 25.160788, 35.297494 |
| DMS | 35° 17' 50.9784" N | , | 25° 9' 38.8368" E |
| W3W | carrots, stuffing, teaching |
| UTM | 35 S, 332769, 3907586 |
| EGSA87 | 605393, 3906364 |
| Elevation m | 97 |
| Elevation feet | 318.2 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Temenos |
TYPE
1. Wall. Hood and Smyth [1981], 50 'Late Minoan, Protogeometric, Geometric and later walls, together with a Hellenistic street, were revealed in the excavations.'
2. Wall. JHS[1937], 137 'A Late Minoan wall was uncovered, running irregularly east and west up the hill.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
a. JHS[1937]: 137, 'To the north a MM III wall, ...'
2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, 'Late Minoan, ...'
b. JHS[1937]: 137, '...Late Minoan wall...'
3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, '..., Protogeometric, ...'
4. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
a. JHS[1937]: 138, '..., of which there is a stratified deposit reaching down into sub-Minoan.'
5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, '..., Geometric ...'
b. JHS[1937]: 137, 'A Geometric wall following roughly the same direction...'
1. JHS[1937]: Journal of Hellenic Studies. (57), 1937, 'Crete; Knossos.', pg. 137.
Online here.
2. 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, '207 (112). 'ARCHAIC EXCAVATION'', pg. 50.
Online here.