Site details

Mesi: Foukianos

PK	C5607
TITLE	Mesi: Foukianos
WGS84	35.343896° N, 24.584588° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.343896, 24.584588
LON/LAT	24.584588, 35.343896

DMS

35° 20' 38.0256" N

24° 35' 4.5168" E

W3W	fluorine, shiny, pots
UTM	35 S, 280494, 3913858
EGSA87	552972, 3911049

Elevation m	194
Elevation feet	636.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Rethymnon

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Kanta [1980], 215    'At the Foukianos location, Evans saw two sarcophagi of which he made a rough drawing ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Hood et al. [1964], 66    '... a larnax said to have been found in a built tomb here...','...a spot where the owner of the land told us a hole had once appeared. This sounds like a collapsed chamber tomb.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 66, ? Hood, et al. [1964] do not quite say.'

2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 215, 'Both are LM III B in date, ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood et al. [1964]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '14. Mesi; (1) 'Foukianos'', pg. 66. Online here.

2. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '7. Mesi', pg. 215.