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Smari: Spitakia

PKC6049
TITLESmari: Spitakia
WGS84 35.244627° N, 25.309285° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.244627, 25.309285
LON/LAT 25.309285, 35.244627

DMS 35° 14' 40.6572" N,25° 18' 33.426" E

W3Wmassages, life, maddest
UTM35 S, 346173, 3901482
EGSA87 618973, 3900669

Elevation m341
Elevation feet 1118.8
RegionCrete
SubregionPedhiadha





GENERAL SITE TYPE  hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Sjögren [2003], 121    'Habitation site', 'An uncertain building with no information concerning size or layout ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Sjögren [2003]: 122, 'G, O'

2. Orientalizing: (700 BC - 630 BC)
    a.    Sjögren [2003]: 25, 'G, O'

NOTES

1.  Initially reported in Chatzi-Vallianou, 1980 'Smari in the Pediadha', gk, AAA (13) pp. 20-60, 1980, p. 42.

2.  Marker placed by using Sjögren's directions and noting that Topoguide puts a 'ruins' marker on this spot.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Sjögren [2003]:  Sjögren, Lena. Cretan Locations; Discerning site variations in Iron Age and Archaic Crete (800 - 500 B.C.). BAR International Series, no 1185. BAR Publishing, Oxford, UK. 2003., 'C32. Smari: Spitakia', pg. 121.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6049 is at 35.33402° N, 25.29621° E, a straight-line distance of 9 km and 990 m.