Site details

Khamalevri: Stavromenos

PK	C5625
TITLE	Khamalevri: Stavromenos
WGS84	35.386975° N, 24.596219° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.386975, 24.596219
LON/LAT	24.596219, 35.386975

DMS

35° 23' 13.11" N

24° 35' 46.3884" E

W3W	frogs, venue, goggled
UTM	35 S, 281667, 3918612
EGSA87	554000, 3915833

Elevation m	5
Elevation feet	16.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Rethymnon

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Hood et al. [1964], 62    '...a Minoan sea-side town ..., of which the deposits, over a metre thick, are exposed below those of later periods for a stretch of about 100 m. in the low cliff above the beach east of the stream at 'Palaiokastro'...'
2.    Settlement.   Kanta [1980], 211    'Traces of a settlement can be seen by the sea, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, 'The earliest pottery of recognizable date ... was M.M., ...'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, '..., including some which might be M.M. I.'

3. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, 'Great interest attaches to the fragments of a superb L.M. IB hole-mouthed jug ...'

4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, '...the site at Stavromenos was also occupied in L.M. III, to judge from low and high kylix stems ...'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 211, '..., and LM III sherds were collected by the author from this spot in 1967.'

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, 'Post-Minoan sherds which we saw included Protogeometric (?), several Geometric, ...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 62, 'Post-Minoan sherds which we saw included Protogeometric (?), several Geometric, ...'

NOTE

1. A Minoan settlement within the limits of a later Greco-Roman town.

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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., '12. Khamalevri; (1) Stavromenos', pg. 62. 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., '2. Stavromenos', pg. 211.