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Samonas: Kilindra/Azapine

PKC5748
TITLESamonas: Kilindra∕Azapine
WGS84 35.4223° N, 24.106326° E
Accuracy 20 m.

LAT/LON 35.4223, 24.106326
LON/LAT 24.106326, 35.4223

DMS 35° 25' 20.28" N,24° 6' 22.7736" E

W3Wravine, bullseye, hamper
UTM35 S, 237274, 3923723
EGSA87 509504, 3919593

Elevation m385
Elevation feet 1263.1
RegionCrete
SubregionApokoronas





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Hood [1965], 113    'L.M. bronzes including two double axes ... and dagger blades in Khania Museum.'
2.    hab.   Langohr [2009], 170    'Une grande habitation a ete fouillee ...'
3.    hab.   Moody [1987],     'FUNCTION: Minoan-habitation'
4.    Settlement.   Kanta [1980], 236    'An LM III B settlement was excavated at the Kylindra location ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 113, 'L.M. bronzes ...'

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'Date: Earlier? LMIII (mostly IIIB)'

3. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Langohr [2009]: 170, '..., un habitat MR IIIA/IIIB.'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'Date: Earlier? LMIII (mostly IIIB)'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 236, 'An LM III B settlement ...'
    c.    Langohr [2009]: 170, '..., un habitat MR IIIA/IIIB.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  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., 'D. 9. Samonas', pg. 113. 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., '3. Samonas', pg. 236.

3.  Langohr [2009]:  Langohr, Charlotte. PERIPHEREIA: Étude régionale de la Crète aux Minoen Récent II-IIIB (1450-1200 av. J.-C.) 1 | La Crète centrale et occidentale, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium, 2009., '2.6.5. Samonas', pg. 170. ' '
Online here.

4.  Moody [1987]:  Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'Appendix III: Site Catalog, SMN1', Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5748 is at 35.47063° N, 24.12155° E, a straight-line distance of 5 km and 443 m.