Site details

Hagios Georgios: Kato Kephala

PK	C5887
TITLE	Hagios Georgios: Kato Kephala
WGS84	35.119552° N, 26.073747° E
Accuracy	200 m.

LAT/LON	35.119552, 26.073747
LON/LAT	26.073747, 35.119552

DMS

35° 7' 10.3872" N

26° 4' 25.4892" E

W3W	appearances, strength, scratched
UTM	35 S, 415600, 3886694
EGSA87	688823, 3887980

Elevation m	200
Elevation feet	656.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Built Tomb.   Vavouranakis [2007], 43    'A free-standing built tomb, originally square, with two adjacent rooms, ...'
2.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 66    'Plundered Late Minoan and Geometric graves were found on Mandalia Hill ... by Davaras.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 43, 'The pottery finds sugest that the tomb was used for a very long period of time, i.e. EM III - MM III.'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 43, 'The pottery finds sugest that the tomb was used for a very long period of time, i.e. EM III - MM III.'

3. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 43, 'The pottery finds sugest that the tomb was used for a very long period of time, i.e. EM III - MM III.'

4. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 43, 'The pottery finds sugest that the tomb was used for a very long period of time, i.e. EM III - MM III.'

5. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 66, '...Late Minoan and Geometric graves ...'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 66, '...Late Minoan and Geometric graves ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '30. Agios Georgios (formerly Tourtouloi)', pg. 66. Online here.

2. Vavouranakis [2007]: Vavouranakis, Giorgos. Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age. BAR International Series, no. 1606, 2007, 'Hagios Georgios (also known as Tourtouloi)', pg. 43. Online here.