Site details

Itanos: North Necropolis

PK	C5893
TITLE	Itanos: North Necropolis
WGS84	35.265317° N, 26.261805° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.265317, 26.261805
LON/LAT	26.261805, 35.265317

DMS

35° 15' 55.1412" N

26° 15' 42.498" E

W3W	makers, deletes, scuttles
UTM	35 S, 432856, 3902716
EGSA87	705595, 3904523

Elevation m	8
Elevation feet	26.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 72    'At this site in the 1950s the French School excavated a largely plundered ancient necropolis, ...'
2.    CeM.   Greco et al. [1996], 944    '...une série de tombeaux (hellénistiques?) sur la colline située immédiatement au Nord-Ouest de la ville.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 72, '..., revealed one definite G grave (SP9), ...'

2. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 72, '..., a few oval hollows can be attributed to this period, probably LG.', 'Additional (Late) Geometric graves have recently been excavated at the site (in 2003), ...'

3. Hellenistic: (323 BC - 33 BC)
    a.    Greco et al. [1996]: 944, '...(hellénistiques?)...'

NOTES

1.  A collection of good photographs at http://www.crete-today.com/itanos/

2.  And see the informative maps in Greco et al. [1996].

3.  The region of which Itanos is the center has been the object of investigation by the Prospection archéologique de la péninsule d’Itanos or 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey'. Their main website (French) is here. They have made available a very usable searchable database of their sites here and which is described here and here. An article (by Alain Duplouy, Anna Lucia d’Agata, Oliver Rackham, and Jennifer Moody, 'The Itanos Archaeological Survey', ΠEΠAΓMEA IΑ ∆IEΘOΥΣ KHTOΛOΓIKOΥ ΣΥE∆IOΥ, pp.79-84, 2018) which describes the survey is here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '36. Itanos (modern Erimoupolis)', pg. 72. Online here.

2. Greco et al. [1996]: Greco, Emanuele, and Thanassis Kalpaxis, Alain Schnapp, Didier Viviers. ‘Itanos (Crète orientale)’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique [120-2], 941-952, 1996., '3. Nécropole Nord', pg. 944. Online here.