Controls Help Blog
Site details

Ligortynos: Chamber Tomb

PKC5927
TITLELigortynos: Chamber Tomb
WGS84 35.075177° N, 25.174886° E
Accuracy 100 m.

LAT/LON 35.075177, 25.174886
LON/LAT 25.174886, 35.075177

DMS 35° 4' 30.6372" N,25° 10' 29.5896" E

W3Wregards, completions, people
UTM35 S, 333598, 3882903
EGSA87 606966, 3881722

Elevation m373
Elevation feet 1223.8
RegionCrete
SubregionMonophatsion





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Eaby [2007], 110    'In 1961 at the northern entrance to the town, a large, rock-cut chamber tomb ... was uncovered...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 110, '..., the remaining finds, which dated PGB-LG, ...'

2. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 110, '..., the remaining finds, which dated PGB-LG, ...', '..., two LG Creto-Cypriot lekythoi, ...'

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., '70. Ligortynos', pg. 110. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5927 is at 34.95647° N, 25.16229° E, a straight-line distance of 13 km and 222 m.