Kephali Lazana

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Kephali Lazana at Chondros

Kephali Lazana ( Greek Κεφάλι Λαζανά Kefali Lazana ) refers to an archaeological excavation site in the municipality of Viannos in the central south of the Greek island of Crete . It is located near the locality of Chondros ( Χόνδρος ) with the district of Pervola ( Περβόλα ). The building remains are those of a country house or farmstead, for which the generic term "Minoan villa" is used, and which are dated from the Middle Minoan phase MM III B to the late Minoan phase SM I A of the New Palace period.

Location and description

The excavation site, measuring 34 × 27 meters, is located on the westernmost hill of a chain of hills at a height of over 460 meters. The place Chondros is about 600 meters southeast, the district Pervola 500 meters in the northeast. Kephali Lazana can be reached on an unpaved road that branches off the road to Chondros in Pervola southwest. The south coast of Crete at the bay of Keratokambos (Όρμος Κερατοκάμπου) is about four kilometers away. The larger excavation site of Kephala (Κεφάλα) about 100 meters to the east with its better preserved structures is dated to the late Minoan phase SM III A2. It is considered to be the successor settlement of Kefali Lazana. Remains of large walls and smaller finds have also been discovered on the third hill Anatoliko Kephali (Ανατολικό Κεφάλι) to the east.

Southeast remains of the foundation

After a test excavation on the middle hill Kephala in 1956 by the Greek archaeologist Nikolaos Platon and the systematic excavations that followed from 1957, the heavily destroyed building remains on the Kephali Lazana were discovered in 1960. The found pottery is characteristic of the transition period from MM III B to SM I A. It is assumed that the building materials of the country house were used to build the later SM III settlement of the Kephala archaeological site after the buildings on the Kephali Lazana in SM I. (A?) Were destroyed by an earthquake and abandoned.

The three hills Kephali Lazana, Kephala, also called Mikro Kephali, and Anatoliko Kephali are made of local flysch rock . On the eastern slope of Kephali Lazana, sandstone was cut in two places, probably for the construction of the buildings. Although the eastern slope with 35 to 40 degree slope too steep for larger buildings is, some small structures were found. Traces of a group of buildings extend east to the SM III settlement of Kephala.

  • Archaeological site of Kephali Lazana

  • Structures on the summit

  • Western summit area

  • Northwest structures

  • Northern slope area

literature

  • Nikolaos Plato: Ανασκαφή Χόνδρου Βιάννου . In: Πρακτικά της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας (ΠΑΕ) . No. 115 , 1960, ISSN  2241-4967 , ΜΜ ΙΙΙΒ ΟΙΚΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΕΦΑΛΙ ΛΑΖΑΝΑ, p. 283–286 (Greek, digitized version [PDF; 1.1 MB ; accessed on November 22, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Westerburg-Eberl: "Minoan Villas" in the New Palace period on Crete . In: Harald Siebenmorgen (Ed.): In the Labyrinth of Minos: Crete - the first European high culture [Exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum, 27.1. until April 29, 2001, Karlsruhe, Schloss] . Biering & Brinkmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-930609-26-6 , pp. 87–88 ( uni-heidelberg.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ]).
  2. ↑ a b Antonis Stivaktakis: Χόνδρος Βιάννου και η ιστορία του . In: Ιστορικής Λαογραφικής Αρχαιολογικής Ένωσης Βιάννου (ed.): Βιαννίτικες Ρίζες . No. 3 , 2010, ISSN  1791-3152 , Ιστορία του Χόνδρου, p. 17 (Greek, digitized version [PDF; 7.5 MB ; accessed on November 22, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Nikolaos Plato : Chondros . In: J. Wilson Myers, Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan (Eds.): The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete . University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles 1992, ISBN 978-0-520-07382-1 , pp. 82–85 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Commons : Kephali Lazana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Chondros: Kefali Lazana. In: Digital Crete: Archaeological Atlas of Crete. Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute for Mediterranean Studies(English).;

Coordinates: 35 ° 2 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 25 ° 22 ′ 28.5 ″  E