Kommos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 25, 2024 06:18 PM
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History
The archaeological site of Kommos was a Bronze Age port and settlement in southern Crete with subsequent habitation and monumental construction dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. This site is possibly to be identified with Amyklaion, mentioned in contemporary sources.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589690
35.0132319008, 24.7608237826
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Kommos (2000 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Kommos (2000 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Amyklaion (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Kommos located on Creta (island) (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- Temple complex at Kommos located at Kommos (1600 BC - 550 BC)
settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 C2 Amyklaion?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kommos
J. Bennet, G. Reger, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Kommos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589690> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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