Site details

Khondros: Lazanas

PK	C5646
TITLE	Khondros: Lazanas
WGS84	35.034496° N, 25.374597° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.034496, 25.374597
LON/LAT	25.374597, 35.034496

DMS

35° 2' 4.1856" N

25° 22' 28.5492" E

W3W	occulted, harder, farms
UTM	35 S, 351735, 3878076
EGSA87	625237, 3877443

Elevation m	453
Elevation feet	1486.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Viannos

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Building.   Myers et al. [1992], 82    'On the higher point of Kephali Lazana to the west was a New Palace period country house or farmstead, ...'
2.    Building.   Hood et al. [1964], 81    'This he (Platon, rhc) has identified as a large villa of the M.M. III period, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 81, Platon identified this as a building of the M.M. III.

2. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 82, 'Kephali Lazana: MM IIIB - LM I country house or farmstead; ...'

3. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 82, 'Kephali Lazana: MM IIIB - LM I country house or farmstead; ...'

4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 81, 'But sherds seen by us on the summit included a high kylix-stem (L.M. III), and it is tempting to wonder if this height was not occupied by the 'palace' of the L.M. settlement.'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 82, '...; LM III traces of buildings; ...'

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., '33. Khondros; (3) 'Lazanas'', pg. 81. Online here.

2. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '9 Chondros', pg. 82.