Site details

Amira: Khoroi

PK	C5639
TITLE	Amira: Khoroi
WGS84	35.025888° N, 25.44363° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.025888, 25.44363
LON/LAT	25.44363, 35.025888

DMS

35° 1' 33.1968" N

25° 26' 37.068" E

W3W	bouts, freights, provide
UTM	35 S, 358017, 3877021
EGSA87	631548, 3876577

Elevation m	384
Elevation feet	1259.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Viannos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    settlement.   Kanta [1980], 119    'A settlement which may continue into LM III has been sighted at the Khoroi location.'
2.    Settlement.   Hood et al. [1964], 86    'There was evidently an important Minoan settlement here.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 86, 'But the nine sherds kept appeared to range from M.M. II or III to L.M. I; ...'

2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 86, 'But the nine sherds kept appeared to range from M.M. II or III to L.M. I; ...'

3. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 86, 'But the nine sherds kept appeared to range from M.M. II or III to L.M. I; ...'

4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 86, '...; one or two (sherds, RHC) might be L.M. III, including a small rim ...'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 119, ' ... which may continue into LM III ... '

NOTES

1. Hood, et al. [1964] 86 notice walls of 'large squared blocks' in the stream bed at approximately 35.025233° N, 25.443150° E as well as traces of house walls and scattered sherds at approximately 35.024872° N, 25.442396° E. Additionally they recognize what may be a Minoan Villa at approximately 35.024855° N, 25.443719° E. They seem to regard these as all part of the same settlement.

2. Kanta's source is Hood et al. [1964] 86.

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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., '40. Amira; (1) 'Khoroi'', pg. 86. 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. Amira', pg. 119.