Thera: Kamara (Potamos)
| PK | C6948 |
| TITLE | Thera: 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 |
| W3W | twice, wooed, decoration |
| UTM | 35 S, 357339.33, 4024303.68 |
| EGSA87 | 626372, 4023765 |
| Elevation m | 38 |
| Elevation feet | 124.7 |
| Region | Cyclades |
| Subregion | Thera |
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.