Site details

Anopolis

PK	C7447
TITLE	Anopolis
WGS84	35.216111° N, 24.066667° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.216111, 24.066667
LON/LAT	24.066667, 35.216111

DMS

35° 12' 57.9996" N

24° 4' 0.0012" E

W3W	amplitude, implications, refinements
UTM	35 S, 232994.79, 3900952.8
EGSA87	505919, 3896723

Elevation m	637
Elevation feet	2089.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Sphakia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nixon et al. [1994], 256    'The pottery we have found on the ridge ... '
2.    Settlement.   Nixon et al. [1994], 256    'Thanks to the work of the survey, the extent of the polis site, both of the stone tumble and the pottery, is clear - sorne 10 ha.', 'The site is covered with stone piles that must be the remains of ancient buildings, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nixon et al. [1994]  p. 256,  Size: 100000 sq. m.  'Thanks to the work of the survey, the extent of the polis site, both of the stone tumble and the pottery, is clear - sorne 10 ha.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, 'The pottery we have found on the ridge runs from the Final Neolithic/Early Minoan through to the Late Roman period, ... '

2. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, 'The pottery we have found on the ridge runs from the Final Neolithic/Early Minoan through to the Late Roman period, ... '

3. Roman: (753 BC - 395 AD)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, ' ..., we have located 55 sites, of which 48 or some 87% have an Archaic to Roman phase ... '

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, ' ..., we have located 55 sites, of which 48 or some 87% have an Archaic to Roman phase ... '

5. Classical: (480 BC - 323 BC)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, ' ..., with the bulk of the material coming from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.'

6. Hellenistic: (323 BC - 33 BC)
    a.    Nixon et al. [1994]: 256, ' ..., with the bulk of the material coming from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.'

NOTE

1. A large and complex site with a long history. See the discussion and informative maps in Nixon et al. [1994], p. 262, figs. 2 and 3..

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nixon et al. [1994]: Nixon, Lucia and Simon Price, Jennifer Moody, Oliver Rackham. ‘Rural settlement in Sphakia, Crète’, Collection de l'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité (no. 508), pp. 255-264, '1. Anopolis and Loutro', pg. 256. Online here.