Site details

Skinias/Koprana

PK	C6820
TITLE	Skinias∕Koprana
WGS84	35.322661° N, 25.691921° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.322661, 25.691921
LON/LAT	25.691921, 35.322661

DMS

35° 19' 21.5796" N

25° 41' 30.9156" E

W3W	agreeable, inroads, fusions
UTM	35 S, 381102.63, 3909610.7
EGSA87	653641, 3909850

Elevation m	237
Elevation feet	777.6
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Van Effenterre [1948], 5    ? ' ... à Skinias, ..., on a déjà signalé ou nous avons nous-même relevé au cours de nos voyages ... la présence de restes submycéniens.'
2.    Sherds.   Pendlebury [1965], 56    'Sherds seen on Koprana by the writer, 1937.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Pendlebury [1965]: , ' ... Early Minoan I ... '

2. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Van Effenterre [1948]: , ' ... la présence de restes submycéniens.'

NOTES

1. For the position of Skinias see Effenterre [1948], plate xxviii.

2. For a précis of the previous archaeological finds around Skinias see Eliopoulos [2000] 110-112

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eliopoulos [2000]: Eliopoulos, Theodore. ‘A Minoan Potter's Wheel with 'Marine' Decoration from Skhinias, Mirabello District’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (95) 107-114., '', Online here.

2. Pendlebury [1965]: Pendlebury, John D.. The Archaeology of Crete. Norton, 1965., 'Sites where Sub-Neolithic and Early Minoan I remains have been found', pg. 55.

3. Van Effenterre [1948]: Van Effenterre, Henri. Nécropoles du Mirabello. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris. 1948., '', pg. 5.