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Vryses: Pithos Burial

PKC5723
TITLEVryses: Pithos Burial
WGS84 35.494446° N, 23.890325° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 35.494446, 23.890325
LON/LAT 23.890325, 35.494446

DMS 35° 29' 40.0056" N,23° 53' 25.17" E

W3Wrecaptured, halted, prefixes
UTM34 S, 762187, 3931719
EGSA87 489904, 3927594

Elevation m39
Elevation feet 128
RegionCrete
SubregionKydhonia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Pithos Burial.   KrCh [1959], 392    '...found in a pithos...'
2.    Pithos Burial.   Hood [1965], 106    'A pithos with the bones of a child and a hoard of bronze objects...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    KrCh [1959]: 392, '...objects, as it appears, of the Greek period, ...'

2. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 106, '...; they date from the geometric period...'

NOTES

1.  RHC translation from the Greek text in Kretika Chronika.

2.  Hood [1965] 106 says '..., 7 minutes north-west of the center of the village.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  KrCh [1959]:  Kretika Chronika (13), 1959, '', pg. 392. Online here.

2.  Hood [1965]:  Hood, M.S.F.. ‘Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), pp. 99-113, 1965., 'C. 3. Vrises; 3. 'Logadhes'', pg. 106. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5723 is at 35.5196° N, 23.90071° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 945 m.