Site details

Tholos: Roman Storehouse

PK	C7412
TITLE	Tholos: Roman Storehouse
WGS84	35.152005° N, 25.859927° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.152005, 25.859927
LON/LAT	25.859927, 35.152005

DMS

35° 9' 7.218" N

25° 51' 35.7372" E

W3W	websites, mossy, buried
UTM	35 S, 396156.88, 3890494.93
EGSA87	669269, 3891195

Elevation m	10
Elevation feet	32.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Harbor.   Haggis [1996], 404    'ts size and location suggest that it functioned as a port.', ' ... a shift in emphasis from the household economy of the MM I-II hamlets to the town economy of a port facility.'
2.    Pottery.   Haggis [1996], 403    ' ... at the latter site a continuous scatter of LM I pottery extends from locus 16 in the north to locus 24 in the south ... '
3.    Pottery.   Haggis [1996], 417    'Eastern Sigillata A (Fig. 24:111), Sigillata B (Fig. 24:109), Phocaean Red-slipped Ware (Fig. 24:110), and Late Roman cooking wares and dishes (Fig. 24:108, 106) are common.' and see Fig. 24, p. 418 in Haggis [1996].
4.    Settlement.   Haggis [1996], 403    ' ... the large coastal towns of ... Ayios Antonios and Tholos ..., ', 'The site is a village- or town-size settlement of at least 3.5 ha. ... '

SITE SIZE

- Haggis [1996]  p. 403,  Size: 35000 sq. m.  'The site is a village- or town-size settlement of at least 3.5 ha. ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Haggis [1996]: 403, ' ... at the latter site a continuous scatter of LM I pottery extends from locus 16 in the north to locus 24 in the south ... '

2. Roman: (753 BC - 395 AD)
    a.    Haggis [1996]: 416, 'In Roman times (1st century B.C.-6th century after Christ) the densest human activity appears in the area of the Tholos bay ... ' , 'One important Roman site is Tholos (Figs. 17, 23-25), where a substantial granary or warehouse was established probably by the 2nd century after Christ.'

3. Byzantine: (395 AD - 1453 AD)
    a.    Haggis [1996]: 416, ' ..., the post-Bronze Age pottery recovered from the site spans an unbroken period of occupation, roughly from the 1st century B.C. to the 7th century after Christ.'

NOTE

1. See the fine diagram/map of this area in Haggis [1996] 407, Fig. 17.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Haggis [1996]: Haggis, Donald C.. ‘Archaeological Survey at Kavousi, East Crete: Preliminary Report’, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, (65:4), 373-432, 'Archaeological Survey at Kavousi, East Crete; Preliminary Report', pg. 373. Online here.