Phaistos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Ciara L Wisecup, Thomas Focht, R. Talbert, Lewin Ernest Staine
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Last modified
Nov 19, 2017 02:41 PM
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History
An ancient settlement on Crete where occupation began ca. 3000 B.C., Phaistos was a major center of the Minoan civilization and continued to be a Greek city of the first millennium B.C.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589987
35.0511785, 24.8141725
- Central Court of the Palace at Phaistos (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Kouloures at Phaistos (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Phaistos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
settlement, architectural complex
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 C2 Phaistos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Phaistos/Ag. Ioannis
J. Bennet, G. Reger, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Ciara L Wisecup, Thomas Focht, R. Talbert, and Lewin Ernest Staine, 'Phaistos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589987> [accessed: 25 April 2018]
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Comment originally by Robert Consoli,Sep 20, 2012 10:50 AM:
Phaistos, Crete (lat/longs reversed at 24.810922000000001, 35.051267000000003 at http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589987/darmc-location-14217)
Can we move the position of the marker to 35.051243, 24.814240? Right now it's about 300 meters out. Google Earth, September 20, 2012, Eye altitude of 3991 feet.