Controls Help Blog
Site details

Zou

PKC6549
TITLEZou
WGS84 35.159166° N, 26.105235° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.159166, 26.105235
LON/LAT 26.105235, 35.159166

DMS 35° 9' 32.9976" N,26° 6' 18.846" E

W3Wstuntmen, gratefully, instructs
UTM35 S, 418509, 3891061
EGSA87 691600, 3892434

Elevation m155
Elevation feet 508.5
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Building

TYPE

1.    Building.   Mantzourani and Vavouranakis [2005], 42    'The MM III - LM I building of Zou lies in between the modern villages of Piskokephalo and Zou, ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Mantzourani and Vavouranakis [2005]: 42, 'The MM III - LM I building of Zou ... '

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Mantzourani and Vavouranakis [2005]: 42, 'The MM III - LM I building of Zou ... '

NOTE

1.  See N. Platon, 'Excavations in the Siteia Area', PAE (110), 288-297 (1955) along with Plates 109 - 111 and the floor-plan (fig. 1) on p. 289. Greek language. Here.

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Mantzourani and Vavouranakis [2005]:  Mantzourani, Eleni and Giorgos Vavouranakis. ‘Megalithic versus Status: The Architectural Design and Masonry of Exceptional Late Bronze Age I Buildings in East Crete’, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (5:2), 35-48. 2005, ''Zou'', pg. 42. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6549 is at 35.19995° N, 26.11986° E, a straight-line distance of 4 km and 716 m.