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Acropolis (later Poseidion)

PKC5946
TITLEAcropolis (later Poseidion)
WGS84 35.51023° N, 27.217522° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.51023, 27.217522
LON/LAT 27.217522, 35.51023

DMS 35° 30' 36.828" N,27° 13' 3.0792" E

W3Wawestruck, bribes, understanding
UTM35 S, 519725, 3929650
EGSA87 791672, 3934101

Elevation m40
Elevation feet 131.2
RegionDodecanese
SubregionKarpathos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Melas [1985], 30    '...may have formed the fortified citadel of the Mycenaean, who would have taken advantage ...'
2.    Wall.   Melas [1985], 30    'Stretches of these (walls, rhc) are still preserved under modern terrace walls, mainly on the eastern side ...'


SITE SIZE

- Melas [1985]  p. 30,  Size: 20000 sq. m.  '... and covers an area of about two hundred metres east to west by one hundred metres north to south.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 30, 'One cannot exclude the possibility that the walls were built in the early Iron Age.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Melas [1985]:  Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'A12. Acropolis', pg. 30.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5946 is at 35.51073° N, 27.21656° E, a straight-line distance of 103.5 m.