Site details

Khrisoskalitissa Monastery: Hab

PK	C5752
TITLE	Khrisoskalitissa Monastery: Hab
WGS84	35.310962° N, 23.532765° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.310962, 23.532765
LON/LAT	23.532765, 35.310962

DMS

35° 18' 39.4632" N

23° 31' 57.954" E

W3W	bullring, audio, rover
UTM	34 S, 730266, 3910471
EGSA87	457377, 3907340

Elevation m	7
Elevation feet	23
Region	Crete
Subregion	Selino

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 230    'At present, frequent pottery of EM I, ... is scattered on the surface ... '
2.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 230    'Another and more extensive settlement, however, was located below it, across a little bay immediately to the south of the Monastery.'
3.    Settlement.   Hood [1965], 101    'Settlement by the monastery with occupation from M.M. I or earlier to L.M. I...'
4.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2014], 230    'FN II and early EM I sherds are visible mostly in the western part of the site where MM, EM II and late EM I pottery gradually decreases.'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 230,  Size: 30000 sq. m.  ' ... over an area ca. 200 by 150 m or slightly more.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 230, 'The earliest (FN II) pottery was of the Red Ware Fabric Group, ... '

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 230, 'At present, frequent pottery of EM I, EM II, and MM, and less of LM I date, is scattered on the surface ... '

3. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 102, 'Four goblet feet are of the high type characteristic of E.M. II...'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 230, 'At present, frequent pottery of EM I, EM II, and MM, and less of LM I date, is scattered on the surface ... '

4. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 102, 'Other sherds appeared to be M.M., ...'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 230, 'At present, frequent pottery of EM I, EM II, and MM, and less of LM I date, is scattered on the surface ... '

5. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 101, 'These feet may even come from wheel-made vases, which would suggest a date for them in M.M. IB or later.'

6. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 101, '...and 2 (tripod feet, RHC) thick oval in section which should make them M.M. III...'

7. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 102, 'One or two small bases might have belonged to plain conical cups of the type so common in L.M. I.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 230, 'At present, frequent pottery of EM I, EM II, and MM, and less of LM I date, is scattered on the surface ... '

NOTES

1. In Hood [1965] see Plate XX (a & b) for views of the site and the little harbor.

2. See the photograph in Nowicki [2014] 231, Fig. 199.

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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., 'A. 1. Khrisoskalitissa', pg. 101. Online here.

2. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '153 Chrisoskalitissa 1', pg. 230. Online here.