Controls Help Blog
Site details

Agios Georgios: Augousti

PKC5398
TITLEAgios Georgios: Augousti
WGS84 35.173581° N, 25.484541° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.173581, 25.484541
LON/LAT 25.484541, 35.173581

DMS 35° 10' 24.8916" N,25° 29' 4.3476" E

W3Wlotuses, moreover, annoying
UTM35 S, 361999, 3893344
EGSA87 635037, 3893013

Elevation m836
Elevation feet 2742.8
RegionCrete
SubregionLasithi





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Watrous and Blitzer [1982], 55    'Perhaps the MM I - LM III and Archaic-Roman settlements were on the slope of the Kephala, and the graves were in the fields below.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: 55, '..., LM III female figurine ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: 55, '..., LM IIIB cup ...', 'MM I - LM IIIB, ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: 55, '..., LM IIIB cup ...', 'MM I - LM IIIB, ...'

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Watrous and Blitzer [1982]: 56, '..., Archaic - Late Roman.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Watrous and Blitzer [1982]:  Watrous, Livingston Vance and H. Blitzer. ‘Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete’, Hesperia Supplements (18), Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete, pp. 1-122. 1982., '46. Agios Georgios: Augousti.', pg. 55. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5398 is at 35.29353° N, 25.4633° E, a straight-line distance of 13 km and 449 m.