Site details

Viannos: Kerato/Vigla

PK	C4492
TITLE	Viannos: Kerato∕Vigla
WGS84	35.011416° N, 25.405736° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.011416, 25.405736
LON/LAT	25.405736, 35.011416

DMS

35° 0' 41.0976" N

25° 24' 20.6496" E

W3W	intimidation, responder, spots
UTM	35 S, 354535, 3875470
EGSA87	628114, 3874923

Elevation m	559
Elevation feet	1834
Region	Crete
Subregion	Viannos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Hood et al. [1964], 84    'There was also an extensive Minoan settlement here. This was noted by Evans, ...'
2.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2000], 139    'At many spots, ..., Dark Age sherds are exposed on the eroded surface; ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 84, 'On the summit Hutchinson in 1935 saw sherds assigned to L.M. I...'

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 84, 'We ... collected a few from the terraced north slopes beneath the summit. They included ... nothing that need be earlier than L.M. III.'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, '...Kerato was probably founded at the turn of the LM IIIB ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, 'Even earlier fragments, representing very early LM IIIC...'

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, '...; PG and G fragments are very numerous...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 139, '...; PG and G fragments are very numerous...'

NOTE

1. Contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood et al. [1964]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '37. 'Keraton' (or 'Vigla')', pg. 84. 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., '59. Viannos: Kerato/Vigla', pg. 139.