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Palio Mitato

PKC5972
TITLEPalio Mitato
WGS84 35.432993° N, 27.142257° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.432993, 27.142257
LON/LAT 27.142257, 35.432993

DMS 35° 25' 58.7748" N,27° 8' 32.1252" E

W3Wopen, ramped, renewal
UTM35 S, 512912, 3921071
EGSA87 785117, 3925311

Elevation m40
Elevation feet 131.2
RegionDodecanese
SubregionKarpathos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Melas [1985], 33    '..., apparently the debris of a Minoan house destroyed by fire, ...'


SITE SIZE

- Melas [1985]  p. 33,  Size: 87500 sq. m.  '... the site, which covers an area of about two hudred and fifty metres up to the road by three hundred and fifty metres northwest to south-east.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 63, '491. Rim fr. restored from two pieces. ... MM IB - II?'

2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 33, '493. Base fr. of similar cup. ... MM III.'

3. Middle Minoan IIIA: (1750 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 33, '492. Whole profile of shallow conical cup ... MM IIIA.'

4. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 64, '549. ...whole profile of oval-mouthed amphora ... MM IIIB.'

NOTE

1.  For placement see Melas [1985], pg. 202, fig. 11, 'Sketch plans of Palio Mitato and of Tripes and Lakos'

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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., 'D23. Palio Mitato', pg. 33.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5972 is at 35.42662° N, 27.15163° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 107 m.