Site details

Itanos: Lower City

PK	C5680
TITLE	Itanos: Lower City
WGS84	35.263605° N, 26.26354° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.263605, 26.26354
LON/LAT	26.26354, 35.263605

DMS

35° 15' 48.978" N

26° 15' 48.744" E

W3W	presentation, worse, curdling
UTM	35 S, 433012, 3902525
EGSA87	705757, 3904337

Elevation m	4
Elevation feet	13.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   BCH [1951], 194    '...dans une maison située au pied des pentes Ouest de l'acropole, on a trouvé quelques tessons géométriques et archaïques peintes ...'
2.    Sherds.   Greco et al. [2001], 642    'Seule la zone de Stephanes semble offrir la trace d'une ceramique MR III...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    BCH [1951]: 194, '... un fragment de vase en stéatite ... incontestablement minoen ainsi qu'un morceau d'un autre vase de pierre que remonte probablement à la même époque...'

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Greco et al. [2001]: 642, '..la trace d'une céramique MR III...'
    b.    Greco et al. [2001]: 642, 'The near-absence of sherds from the LM III found in the study area may, therefore, result from nothing more than the inability to recognize them.', (tr. RHC)

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    BCH [1951]: 194, '... quelques tessons géométriques et archaïques peintes ...'

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    BCH [1951]: 194, '... quelques tessons géométriques et archaïques peintes ...'

NOTES

1.  The marker is for the lower city of Itanos. The acropolis is on the headland at 35.263013° N, 26.264541° E which is about 55 m. distant on a bearing of 137°. The necropolis is 238 m. distant on a bearing of 320°.

2.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

3.  Greco et al. [2001] provide a map of the whole area around Itanos, p. 639, Fig. 1.

4.  The region of which Itanos is the center has been the object of investigation by the Prospection archéologique de la péninsule d’Itanos or 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey'. Their main website (French) is here. They have made available a very usable searchable database of their sites here and which is described here and here. An article (by Alain Duplouy, Anna Lucia d’Agata, Oliver Rackham, and Jennifer Moody, 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey', ΠEΠAΓMEA IΑ ∆IEΘOΥΣ KHTOΛOΓIKOΥ ΣΥE∆IOΥ, pp.79-84, 2018) which describes the survey is here.

5.  https://www.persee.fr/doc/bch_0007-4217_1951_num_75_1_2476

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH [1951]: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 75. 1951., 'Itanos.', pg. 193. Online here.

2. Greco et al. [2001]: Greco, Emanuele and Thanassis Kalpaxis, Nikos Papadakis, Alain Schnapp, Didier Viviers. ‘Itanos (Crète orientale)’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (125:2), pp. 637-644, 2001., ''C. Minoen Recent II-III'', pg. 642. Online here.