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Leftoporos: Minoan Traces

PKC5950
TITLELeftoporos: Minoan Traces
WGS84 35.463872° N, 27.100841° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 35.463872, 27.100841
LON/LAT 27.100841, 35.463872

DMS 35° 27' 49.9392" N,27° 6' 3.0276" E

W3Woverfed, cure, singular
UTM35 S, 509150, 3924491
EGSA87 781248, 3928618

Elevation m25
Elevation feet 82
RegionDodecanese
SubregionKarpathos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Wall

TYPE

1.    Wall.   Melas [1985], 36    Both walls and sherds: '...traces of curved and straight walls, the latter meeting at right angles, as well as stumps of stones from fallen walls cover an area of about six by eight metres ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 36, '... a concentration of a few Minoan sherds, mostly from Middle Minoan III cups ...'

2. Middle Minoan IIIA: (1750 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 69, '826 - 839. Rim and belly frs. of Minoan cups. ... Probably MM IIIA.'

NOTE

1.  A complex site bearing primarily on LN or very early BA. See the sketch map in Melas [1985] on p. 204, Fig. 13.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Melas [1985]:  Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'E35. Leftoporos', pg. 36.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5950 is at 35.4632° N, 27.10045° E, a straight-line distance of 82.8 m.