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This extremely important Early Minoan site is situated on the top and upper slopes of a steep hill, overlooking the Libyan sea, a few hundred metres from the present-day village of Myrtos and even closer to another Early Minoan site, Pyrgos, which lies between Fournou Korifi and the modern village.
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The settlement here was begun at the same time as neighbouring Fournou Korifi (EM IIA) and was, ... Unlike Fournou Korifi, however, Pyrgos was resettled, though Cadogan believes that there may have been a period of desertion first. He dates the resettlement to Pyrgos II whose beginning corresponds to MM IA.
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Fournou Korifi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fournou Korifi is the archaeological site of a Minoan settlement on southern Crete. Fournou Korifi was built at the top of a steep hill, with excellent views of the coast. Fournou Korifi was first...
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Fournou Korifi and Pirgos are Minoan settlements near Mirtos in east Crete. ... All the buildings of Fournou Korifi are built of large rough stones. Warren says that the settlement was surrounded by a stone wall with two entrances, while the south entrance was reinforced by a bastion.
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Pictures of Myrtos, a picturesque village in southern Crete, with quiet, narrow streets full of flowers and trees. In Myrtos there are rooms for rent, small hotels, restaurants, tavernas and café-bars at the coast road of Myrtos. ... Pirgos and Fournou Korifi, two Minoan settlements near Myrtos...
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Fournou Korifi A small Minoan site in a poor state of preservation but was the site where a unique libation jug, the Goddess of Mirtos, was found.
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T. M. Whitelaw, Community Structure and Social Organization at Fournou Korifi, Myrtos (M.A. thesis, University of Southampton 1979). ... T. M. Whitelaw, "The Settlement at Fournou Korifi Myrtos and Aspects of Early Minoan Social Organization," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 323-345.
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The three major excavated sites are Vasiliki on the west side of the isthmus of Ierapetra, Fournou Korifi (Myrtos) on the south coast ca. 12 kms. west of Ierapetra, and Trypiti on the south coast some 40 kms, further west of Myrtos.
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Keith Branigan and Yiannis Pappadatos completed their search of the Early Minoan Ayia Kyriaki and Fournou Korifi pottery assem-blages, looking for fingerprints. Over 150 prints were found, but only 30 were sufficiently well preserved to be useful for possible matching.
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Crete History, Archaeology And Mythology Of Crete ... Pirgos and Fournou Korifi, the minoan settlements in the area of Mirtos...
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