Vryses: Georgios
| PK | C2816 |
| TITLE | Vryses: Georgios |
| WGS84 | 35.484775° N, 23.893779° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.484775, 23.893779 |
| LON/LAT | 23.893779, 35.484775 |
| DMS | 35° 29' 5.19" N | , | 23° 53' 37.6044" E |
| W3W | grades, briefs, fizzles |
| UTM | 34 S, 762532, 3930655 |
| EGSA87 | 490216, 3926521 |
| Elevation m | 253 |
| Elevation feet | 830.1 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Kydhonia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement
TYPE
1. hab. Moody [1987], 'FUNCTION: Minoan and later habitation and sacred cave'2. hab. Nowicki [2000], 214 'A defensible site of LM IIIC date ...'
3. hab. Hood [1965], 106 'Site of a small ancient city ...'
4. Settlement. Kanta [1980], 233 'A refuge settlement, possibly LM III in date, is at the Hagios Georgios location.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
a. Moody [1987]: , '..., 1 EM cooking ware, ...'
2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
a. Moody [1987]: , 'MMIII/LMI', 'MMIII/LM - pithos, conical cups ...'
3. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
a. Moody [1987]: , '...MMIII/LMI...'
4. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Hood [1965]: 106, 'From the little plateau below the rocky peak of 'Ayios Yioryios' on the west S. Hood and G. Cadogan, October 1964, recovered a few sherds which appear to date from the end of L.M. III.'
b. Kanta [1980]: 233, '..., possibly LM III in date, ...'
c. Moody [1987]: , '... LMIII', 'LMIII ithos frags, TP feet(fat-oval, round), ...'
5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 214, 'Several sherds with the LM IIIC-PG type of fabric, ... were noted on my visit to this site.', 'It seems probably (sic), therefore, that the LM IIIC settlement did not extend to Kastello ...'
6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 215, 'Several sherds with the LM IIIC-PG type of fabric, ... were noted on my visit to this site.'
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Hood [1965]: Hood, M.S.F.. ‘Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), pp. 99-113, 1965., 'C. 3. Vrises I; 'Ayios Yioryios'', pg. 106.
Online here.
2. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '15. Vryses', pg. 233.
3. Moody [1987]: Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'Appendix III: Site Catalog, VRS1', Online here.
4. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '104. Vryses Agios Georgios', pg. 214.