Site details

Karoumes Bay: Sea Guard-House

PK	C5682
TITLE	Karoumes Bay: Sea Guard–House
WGS84	35.147532° N, 26.272078° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.147532, 26.272078
LON/LAT	26.272078, 35.147532

DMS

35° 8' 51.1152" N

26° 16' 19.4808" E

W3W	compute, bursts, moderating
UTM	35 S, 433694.75, 3889646.48
EGSA87	706828, 3891478

Elevation m	18
Elevation feet	59.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Building.   AR[1997], 120    'Excavation of the 'watch-tower of the sea' was completed, ...'
2.    Building.   Vokotopoulos [2011], 139    'The building complex of the Sea Guard-House ... '
3.    Hab.   Vokotopoulos [2011], 142    'Consequently, it is here considered more probable that the site did not have this function (i.e., a guard-house, rhc) but, rather, it was connected with the exploitation of the productive potential of the region - that is, it was a farmstead.'
4.    Pottery.   Vokotopoulos [2011], 142    Pg. 142, Figure 13.4. depicts LM IB - II pottery from the Sea Guard-House.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    AR[1997]: 120, '...construction of the tower and terrace belonging to the beginning of MMII.'

2. Middle Minoan IIIA: (1750 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 139, 'The building should be dated to an early phase of the period, that is, to MM IIIA or to the beginning of MM IIIB.'

3. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 139, 'The building should be dated to an early phase of the period, that is, to MM IIIA or to the beginning of MM IIIB.'

4. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    AR[1997]: 120, '...as well as the existence of a LM I floor in room 3.'

5. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 139, 'The MM III building was already out of use by LM IA, when a rectangular building linked with an annex ... was built ... '

6. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 146, ' ..., several of the earlier farmsteads appear to have been abandoned, with the result that occupation was much more sparse in LM IB.'

7. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    AR[1997]: 120, 'Occupation of two rooms in LM III was noted ...'

8. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 141, 'The site was reoccupied during LM IIIA1-2, ... '

9. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Vokotopoulos [2011]: 141, 'The site was reoccupied during LM IIIA1-2, ... '

NOTES

1. See the accurate floor plan for the Sea Guard-House in Vokotopoulos [2011] on p. 140.

2. For a number of subsidiary sites in the area of the Sea Guard-House (as well as the fine map, figure 13.1, on p. 138) see Vokotopoulos [2011] passim.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AR[1997]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (44) 1997., 'The Minoan Roads Research Programme: Karoumes', pg. 120. Online here.

2. Glowacki and Vogeikoff-Brogan [2011]: Glowacki, Kevin T. and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. ΣΤΕΓΑ; The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete. Hesperia Supplement 44; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011, '',

3. Vokotopoulos [2011]: Vokotopoulos, Leonidas. ‘A View of the Neopalatial Countryside: Settlement and Social Organization at Karoumes, Eastern Crete’, In Glowacki and Vogeikoff-Brogan [2011], 137-149, 'Megalithic Buildings: The Case of the Sea Guard-House', pg. 139. Online here.