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Thera: Kamara (Potamos)

PKC6948
TITLEThera: Kamara (Potamos)
WGS84 36.35325° N, 25.410066° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 36.35325, 25.410066
LON/LAT 25.410066, 36.35325

DMS 36° 21' 11.7" N,25° 24' 36.2376" E

W3Wtwice, wooed, decoration
UTM35 S, 357339.33, 4024303.68
EGSA87 626372, 4023765

Elevation m38
Elevation feet 124.7
RegionCyclades
SubregionThera





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Walls

TYPE

1.    Building.   Davis and Cherry [1990], 190    'About 600 m east of the site of Akrotiri. Storerooms with pithoi and other pottery ... '
2.    Building.   Barber [1981], 20    'Buildings and finds similar to those from Akrotiri ... '
3.    Building.   Fimmen [1921], 15    'Häuserreste ..., am Bett des Potamos von Kamara ... '
4.    Pottery.   Scholes [1956], 13    'Similar remains and pottery were found by Zahn in the river-bed in this region in the south-eastern sector of Thera.'
5.    Wall.   Schallin [1993], 24    'Kamara is a ravine southeast of the modern village of Akrotiri, where Zahn excavated in 1899 and found walls ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, ' ... characteristic of the eruption deposits elsewhere (LC I).'
    b.    Barber [1981]: 20, ' ... similar to those from Akrotiri (LC I).'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 24, ? Implied.

NOTE

1.  Sperling [1974] 321, Fig. 1 shows Kamara as 'Location Approximate'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Barber [1981]:  Barber, R.L.N.. ‘The Late Cycladic Period: A Review’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (76), pp. 1-21, 1981., '45. Kamara (Potamos)', pg. 20. Online here.

2.  Davis and Cherry [1990]:  Davis, J.L. and J.F. Cherry. ‘Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri’, In Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990] 185-200, 'Kamara or Potamos', pg. 190. Online here.

3.  Fimmen [1921]:  Fimmen, Dietrich. Die Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur. Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, Leipzig und Berlin. 1921., 'Thera.', pg. 15. Online here.

4.  Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990]:  Hardy, D.A. et al. (eds.). Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume one. Archaeology. . Proceedings of the third international congress Santorini, Greece 3-9 September 1989., '',

5.  Schallin [1993]:  Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '53. Kamara (Potamos)', pg. 24.

6.  Scholes [1956]:  Scholes, Kathryn. ‘The Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age: A Synopsis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 51 (1956), pp. 9-40, 'Kamara.', pg. 13. Online here.

7.  Sperling [1974]:  Sperling, J.W.. ‘Thera and Therasia’, Ekistics (38:228), Cities of the Past. 320-326. November, 1974,, '', Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6948 is at 36.3492° N, 25.40806° E, a straight-line distance of 485.1 m.