Site details

Karoumes: Fort

PK	C7267
TITLE	Karoumes: Fort
WGS84	35.146758° N, 26.270257° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.146758, 26.270257
LON/LAT	26.270257, 35.146758

DMS

35° 8' 48.3288" N

26° 16' 12.9252" E

W3W	infancy, grandiose, sedation
UTM	35 S, 433528.24, 3889561.86
EGSA87	706664, 3891389

Elevation m	39
Elevation feet	128
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Fort

TYPE

1. Fort. Vokotopoulos [2011], 142 ' ... dependent on the neighboring Mother Fort (Fig. 13.1: 4), ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
a. Vokotopoulos [2011]: 147, Footnote 49 'Only five LM IB sites are known: four isolated dwellings (Fig. 13.1:1, 4, 15, 23) ... '

NOTES

1. In the Vokotopoulos article this structure is on Figure 13.1 as no. 4.

2. About this important structure I have very little information at hand. The following are sources for this fort:

Tzedakis, Y., S. Chryssoulaki, M. Avgouli, and Y. Venieri. 1992–1993. “Ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα ‘Μινωικοί δρόμοι,’” Κρητική Εστία 4, pp. 306-319.
Chryssoulaki, S., and L. Vokotopoulos. 1993. “Το αρχαιολογικό τοπίο ενός ανακτόρου: Η έρευνα επιφανείας στην περιοχή του μινωικού ανακτόρου Ζάκρου Σητείας,” Αρχαιολογία 49, pp. 70–78.
Chryssoulaki, S. 1999. “Minoan Roads and Guard Houses—War Regained,” in Laffineur 1999, pp. 75–83.
Laffineur R., ed. 1999. Polemos: Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l’âge du Bronze. Actes de la 7e Recontre égéene internationale, Université de Liège, 14–17 April 1998 (Aegaeum 19), Liège.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Glowacki and Vogeikoff-Brogan [2011]: Glowacki, Kevin T. and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. ΣΤΕΓΑ; The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete. Hesperia Supplement 44; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011, '',

2. Vokotopoulos [2011]: Vokotopoulos, Leonidas. ‘A View of the Neopalatial Countryside: Settlement and Social Organization at Karoumes, Eastern Crete’, In Glowacki and Vogeikoff-Brogan [2011], 137-149, '', pg. 142. Online here.