Site details

Cretea/Kretea

PK	C7195
TITLE	Cretea∕Kretea
WGS84	37.447591° N, 22.028705° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	37.447591, 22.028705
LON/LAT	22.028705, 37.447591

DMS

37° 26' 51.3276" N

22° 1' 43.338" E

W3W	bodes, overall, implicate
UTM	34 S, 590992.11, 4145023.68
EGSA87	325477, 4146063

Elevation m	738
Elevation feet	2421.3
Region	Arcadia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Morgan [1999], 408    ' ..., , combined with slightly later bronzes, ... '
2.    Sherds.   Morgan [1999], 408    ' ... two Lakonian (or Lakonianising) sherds in the lowest levels of a later terrace, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 408, ' ..., suggests that cult (arguably that of Apollo Parrhasios, Paus 8.38.2) began in Late Geometric times.'

2. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Morgan [1999]: 408, 'One small structure, a single room ca. 2 x 3m which contained small bronzes, probably dates to the Archaic period.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Morgan [1999]: Morgan, Catherine. ‘Cultural Subzones in Early Iron Age and Archaic Arkadia?’, In Nielsen and Roy (eds.) [1998], pp. 382 - 456. 1998, '3. South-Central Arkadia', pg. 408. Online here.

2. Nielsen and Roy (eds.) [2000]: Nielsen, Thomas Heine and James Roy. Defining Ancient Arcadia. Symposium, April 1-4, 1998, Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre (6), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1998., '',