Site details

Chamaizi: Souvloto Mouri

PK	C5693
TITLE	Chamaizi: Souvloto Mouri
WGS84	35.167691° N, 26.018548° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.167691, 26.018548
LON/LAT	26.018548, 35.167691

DMS

35° 10' 3.6876" N

26° 1' 6.7728" E

W3W	inspiration, ruffles, manipulated
UTM	35 S, 410622, 3892081
EGSA87	683684, 3893216

Elevation m	486
Elevation feet	1594.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Lenuzza [2011], 59    '...the discovery there of an unusual oval building consisting of multiple rooms...'
2.    Building.   Myers et al. [1992], 78    'The grand Middle Minoan IA building set on a high hill in open country ...'
3.    Sanctuary.   Faure [1967], 121    'Le Ier sanctuaire, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 78, 'II. USE EM - MM IA building(s).'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 78, 'II. USE EM - MM IA building(s).'

2. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Lenuzza [2011]: 68, 'Table 6.1. MMIA Vases from Chamaizi'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 78, 'II. USE EM - MM IA building(s).'

3. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Lenuzza [2011]: 68, 'Table 6.2. MM IB - II Vases from Chamaizi'
    b.    Faure [1967]: 121, '..., peut-être du MM I, ...'

4. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Lenuzza [2011]: 68, 'Table 6.2. MM IB - II Vases from Chamaizi'

5. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Lenuzza [2011]: 68, '...an uninterrupted use of the site from a phase previous to the construction of the oval house until at least MM II, when the building ceased to be occupied.'

6. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Faure [1967]: 121, 'Le culte semble avoir cessé au MM 3 ...'

7. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Faure [1967]: 121, '...et avoir repris au MR 3 b, ...'

NOTES

1. Good plans of the house and its phases in Lenuzza [2011] pp. 60-62. Photographs of Chamaizi can be found at Ian Swindale's site.

2. Faure's idea (Faure [1967] 121 ) that this was a cult site ('sanctuaire') seems now discredited. See Lenuzza [2011] 69.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Faure [1967]: Faure, Paul. ‘Nouvelles recherches sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (91:1), pp. 114-150, 1967., 'to Soubloto Mouri (Greek)', pg. 121. Online here.

2. Lenuzza [2011]: Lenuzza, Valeria. ‘"The Whole is a Freak": A Reassessment of the Spatial Organization of the Oval House at Chamaizi, Siteia’, Hesperia Supplements (44), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete, pp. 59-70, 2011., '', pg. 59. Online here.

3. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '8 Chamaizi', pg. 78.