Site details

Spili: Kefalia

PK	C7418
TITLE	Spili: Kefalia
WGS84	35.220373° N, 24.529386° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.220373, 24.529386
LON/LAT	24.529386, 35.220373

DMS

35° 13' 13.3428" N

24° 31' 45.7896" E

W3W	intolerance, announced, blinking
UTM	35 S, 275134.96, 3900279.09
EGSA87	548029, 3897322

Elevation m	412
Elevation feet	1351.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Amari

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Hood and Warren [1966], 175    See catalog on p. 175.
2.    Settlement.   Hood and Warren [1966], 174    'Minoan settlement.'
3.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 200    'Minoan occupation ... '
4.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2000],     'Some potsherds were identified as probably of EM date.'

SITE SIZE

- Hood and Warren [1966]  p. 175,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  I am guessing somewhat at the extent. Hood says: ' ... a large one, covering an area of perhaps 150 metres from east to west and rather less from north to south; ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 200, 'Some potsherds were identified as probably of EM date.'

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 175, 'One fragment of a bowl with pattern burnish on both sides may be E.M. I; ... '

3. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 200, ' ...(Middle and Late Minoan I periods) was recorded by Hood, Warren and Cardogan ... '

4. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 175, ' ... continuing, it would seem, into M.M. I at Knossos ... ', 'The rim of a shallow cooking-bowl looks M.M. I-II ... '

5. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 175, 'The rim of a shallow cooking-bowl looks M.M. I-II ... '

6. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 175, ' ...: one of these was bevelled, indicating a date in M.M. III.'

7. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 175, 'A number of bases and other fragments evidently came from plain conical cups of the type common in L.M. I.'
    b.    Nowicki [2000]: 200, ' ...(Middle and Late Minoan I periods) was recorded by Hood, Warren and Cardogan ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Warren [1966]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '9. Spili: 'Kefalia'', pg. 174. Online here.

2. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '96. Spili Vorizi', pg. 200.