Subregion support for Helladic.Info

Until now the Mycenaean Atlas has not consistently supported the idea of subregions.  This situation arose from not thinking clearly about the problem from the beginning.  The general concept of regions (e.g. Crete, Dodecanese, Messenia, Argolid, etc.) has always been a part of the database.  Smaller divisions, however, have been mostly skipped.  

It would, for example, be desirable to be able to look at individual islands in the several groups on an island by island basis.  Up until now one could look at ‘Cyclades’ but not ‘Naxos’ or any other of the individual islands in that chain.  With the 1.002 DB release, however, this has changed.  Several of the major regions have been divided into fully supported subregions.  You can now look not just at ‘Crete’ but at its individual subregions such as ‘Kissamos’, ‘Ierapetra’, ‘Khydonia’, etc.

You can choose these subregions on the ‘Region’ drop-down.  Here is a picture of what the region choice drop down for Crete looks like now:

The new Controls Page with subregions listed.  Here for Crete.

As you can see the term ‘Crete’ (which functions as it always did by encompassing the whole) is followed by combined  choices for the individual subregions of the island: ‘Crete: Amari’, ‘Crete: Apokoronas’, etc.

Island chains are now handled in a similar manner.  You can now isolate the main islands in the following island chains:

Cyclades
Dodecanese
Ionian Islands
North-east Aegean (Lemnos, etc.)
Saronic Gulf (Aigina, Salamis, etc.)
Sporades (Skyros, etc.)

Aigina treated as a subregion and mapped by itself and (below)
in its own Chrono Report.

 The concept of named regions is somewhat problematic.  We really don't know the region names for the Greek mainland as they were known in the Bronze Age and their use (we start knowing actual region names from the time of Homer) fluctuates even in historical times.  Of the mainland regions only Anatolia has been divided into subregions on this website.

The benefit of this subregion support is that you can now prepare reports (elevation, chrono, etc.) for more tightly focused regions and I sincerely hope that this will be a benefit.


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Some remarks on the Mycenaean Atlas Project database:

Many researchers in the social sciences use some product like Microsoft's Excel to create a 'DB'.  This is fine; it's what is generally referred to as a 'flat file'.  That is, a single table representation of your data of interest.

The Mycenaean Atlas database, on the other hand, is a relational database with several tables that was built using MySQL.  Dumps of this DB are available but you need MySQL (or similar) and a knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) to run it.  Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to ask for it.  But If you'd like to have a copy of the Mycenaean Atlas database anyway then e-mail me and tell me about your project.  

And remember that useful .kml and/or .csv files can be generated directly from all the windows (including the new reports pages) of the website helladic.info   Try it out!   I'm also willing to generate custom .csv or .kml files from the atlas if you need something specific.

C5708: Volakas Cemetery in Siteia on Crete

Giorgos Vavouranakis, in his Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, describes the burial sites around Hagios Georgios in Crete.  Of the Volakas Hill site he says this:

"The second burial site is on the south slope of the Volakas hill, just outside the modern settlement (of Hagios Georgios), to the northwest off the main road ... Nine chamber tombs with a roughly circular chamber and a dromos were excavated  ..., but were found looted and, generally, disturbed.  According to the pottery, the place was used throughout the Postpalatial period (LM IIIA-C)."[1]

The Volakas site is the location of several chamber tombs and was used for a very long time: from the Early Minoan III to the Late Minoan IIIC.  The site mentioned, outside Hagios Georgios, is in Siteia, eastern Crete.  Hagios Georgios is indicated by the arrow on this first photo:

Here is a close-up of Hagios Georgios.  But where in all this wilderness of hills and field roads is the Volakas site?


Vavouranakis provides a photograph of the site which you see here:

This picture leaves a lot to be desired.  By the time these photos appear in academic publications they've been stepped on so many times that there usually isn't much left.  In their published state these photos aren't nearly as helpful as their creators suppose.  And yet there's much that can be done to rescue these old pictures.  Applying judicious transformations in photoshop gives us this:

The real problem with the original is that the contrast is too low.  Major improvements were achieved by increasing the contrast and by sharpening (which is a kind of micro contrast increase).

We're looking at a footpath which leads up to a large rock with bush on top of it.  Behind the rock, and at no great distance, is a characteristic ridge covered with emergent rock and maquis.  Between the rock and the ridge is a dark mass that we must interpret as a grove of trees, probably olives.  Also, overhead, we can see at least two wires.  In this photo they've been aliased into a series of dashes but there's no mistaking what they are.  To the left (in this case SW) of the path is a complex of chamber tombs.  Vavouranakis' arrow points to them.

In the next picture I label all these features:

But where is this on the ground?   Well, it turns out that, because of the wires, there are only a couple of places where this could be.  Let's look:

In this photo I've drawn in the wires in blue.  These wires cross roads at only two places, here marked 'A' and 'B'.    In the next illustration I tried to recreate the view from point A in Google Earth:

If we compare this picture to the original photograph it's obvious that we're close.  The characteristic bumps on the ridge to the N match up well.  But we're really not close enough to that ridge.  Point A doesn't really match up to what we're expecting to see.  Let's try Point B.

This looks a lot better.  Not only is the characteristic ridge (with its bumps) visible but the wires match up better.  In this picture, though, there is a prominent tertiary road which is not visible in the original photograph.  Here's the view from above:

I'm convinced that this is the right place.  I've labelled all the features that I could.  The rock, the wires, the grove are all in their expected places and, if you click on this to enlarge it, you'll see what looks very much like Vavouranakis' chamber tomb dromos.  The only discrepancy is that the path in the original photograph has now disappeared.

This is chamber tomb cemetery C5708 and it is at: 35.125530 N, 26.064386 E.  I'm embarrassed to say that, on the website helladic.info, it has been in the wrong position (near Point A) for several weeks.  I'll fix that with the next DB release.

Notes

[1] Vavouranakis [2007] 43.



Bibliography

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.  Online here.  Eaby discusses the cemetery at Ammoudoplaka which is C5888 in the Atlas.  Ammoudoplaka is contiguous to the Volakas site discussed here.

Sakellarakis [1966]:    Sakellarakis, I. 1966. Αρχαιότητες και μνημεία κεντρικής και  ανατολικής  Κρήτης.  Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 21, Β2 (Χρονικά): 405-419.  (I have not seen this.)

Vavouranakis [2007]:    Vavouranakis, Giorgos.  Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age, BAR International Series, no. 1606, 2007.  Online here.



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With a correspondent I've been discussing the question of whether putting exact locational information online is a good thing or a bad thing.  I'd like to hear from my readers on this question - do you have qualms about putting this kind of information online?  You can respond to this post or use my e-mail which is bobconsoli at gmail dot com.


There have been recent database updates on helladic.info which show more sites on Crete (mostly).  Also the Elevation Report page and the Gazetteer report page have been updated with some extra features.  You might check this out.

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Most researchers in this field use some product like Microsoft's Excel to create a 'DB'.  This is fine; it's what is generally referred to as a 'flat file'.  That is, a single table representation of your data of interest.

The Mycenaean Atlas database, on the other hand, is a relational database with several tables that was built using MySQL.  Dumps of this DB are available but you need MySQL (or similar) and a knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) to run it.  Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to ask for it.  But If you'd like to have a copy of the Mycenaean Atlas database anyway then e-mail me and tell me about your project.  

And remember that useful .kml and/or .csv files can be generated directly from all the windows (including the new reports pages) of the website helladic.info   Try it out!   I'm also willing to generate custom .csv or .kml files from the atlas if you need something specific.

Cape Galatas and Stalos: Vouno

In my last post I tried to locate a find spot on Cape Galatas on the northwest coast of Crete.  I did that by reproducing a photograph from Hood [1965] and I include the original photo (post processed by me) here:

There are, however, two sites involved.  The one is on Cape Galatas and the other is in the foreground of this very picture.  The name given to it by Hood is 'Stalos: Vouno'.  On p. 107 of Hood's 'Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete' we read this [1]

" C. 5. STALOS: 'VOUNO'

 Dominant hill on the west side of the road to Stalos about half a kilometre inland from the sea (BM I :50,000, CRETE Sheet 2, PLATANIAS, 043/567). On the summit is a large pile of stones,  some of which appear to come from house walls. The few sherds recovered here by S. and R. Hood and G. Cadogan, October 1964, included one or two Minoan, among them a fragment of a tripod foot of thick oval section, but others Greco-Roman and Medieval or later. There might have been an isolated Minoan house here."

So.  A 'Dominant hill'.  The difficulty is to find the right hill out of so many in this area.  In my last post I reproduced the view in Hood's photograph.  This time I decided to determine the boundaries of that view.  Because Hood plainly tells us that the picture was taken 'Looking east from Stalos: 'Vouno' (C. 5)'  [2] then wherever those boundaries intersected ought to be the location of Stalos: Vouno and the pile of stones in the foreground are, I assume, the 'large pile of stones' to which Hood refers earlier.  Here is the result of my trying to draw these image boundaries:

Where the lines intersect ought to be the photographer's position and, by extension, the site of Stalos: Vouno which I have termed 'C5762'.  Here it is again with labels:

On the upper right edge of the original photo we see an old road that makes a bend from NE to E.  That road is still there and I have picked it out in yellow in this last picture. The grove of trees on the left has now been superseded by an elaborate home or hotel.  The pile of stones has, I guess, long since vanished although fragments may remain around the site.

The angle of view here is about 34° - rather narrower than the average normal lens (closer to 55°) which suggests that the picture has been cropped.  It may have been taken with a telephoto (extended focal length) lens although both the Akrotiri peninsula and the pile of stones in the foreground are both in focus.  In order for a telephoto (85 mm?) to do this would require the lens to be stopped down to f16 or f22 (not impossible in Greece on a bright day).  The lack of visible grain (to my eye anyway) suggests that the photographer used Kodak's Pan-X which was the most popular fine-grain film in those days.

The boundary lines cross at the place where I have dropped the marker - very close to an attractive resort swimming pool.  If this was the location of a Minoan house, as Hood suggests, then it would have enjoyed an extraordinary view.  We've already seen that the entire Akrotiri Peninsula is visible to the E.  Looking W the inhabitants would  have enjoyed this view which extends from the Rhodopos Peninsula to the island of Agios Theodoros.

The position of Stalos: Vouno (C5762), then, is approximately 35.510661° N, 23.940605° E


Stalos: 'Vouno'
     DMS:       35° 30' 38.38" N      23° 56' 26.178" E   
     W3W: extends.liquidated.quite
     UTM:       34 S   766696 m E   3933653 m N
     GGRS87:    494465 m E    3929389 m N

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Footnotes

[1]  Hood [1965] 107.
[2] Hood [1965] Caption for Plate 22.


Bibliography

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.

 Kanta [1980]:   Kanta, Athanasia, The Late Minoan III Period of Crete. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980.,  "19. Stalos", 234.

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, STL1"

Cape Galatas: One Among Many

Where is Cape Galatas (C5763) in Northern Crete?

Greece is a very small country; hardly a fly-speck on a world map.  And yet when you examine it hillock by hillock, ravine by ravine, it turns into a continent.  Your faithful companions are Ambiguity and Doubt.  Is this the right cape, bight, ravine?  Or is it the next one?  Or is it one of those four or five closely huddled near the original?

Case in point.  Where is Cape Galatas?  Cape Galatas is the location of an MMI settlement.  and is somewhere on the north coast of western Crete among a jumble of other capes large and small.  But which cape is it?  Let’s look at the directions:

In Hood [1965] we read

“C. 6. Galatas

‘Psathi’ (PLATE 22). Settlement with traces of occupation in M.M. I or earlier on the highest part of a bluff overlooking the sea about 5 kilometres west of Khania (BM 1:50,000 CRETE Sheet 2, PLATANIAS, 058/569)’” [1]

What do these words mean 'about 5 kilometres west of Khania'?  Does Hood intend us to measure from the center of Chania or from its western edge?  The current city is 4 kilometers wide.  And what was the center or western edge in 1965?  Did Hood suppose that the city would always stay the same size?  To be sure he gives us coordinates in the BM which he defines as (99) ‘BM 1:50,000 = British Staff maps of the last war, scale 1:50,000.’   He must have supposed that his readers would always have access to these now long-outdated maps.  I call this writing style 'the ever-present Now' and it's characterized by a sublime indifference to the fact that it will ever be any time but the Now in which the writer is setting down his words.  It will never be fifty years or a hundred years in the future and Eternal Greece will never change.

Well, those of us who don't have access to the British Staff maps must find other means.

Fortunately Dr. Hood has provided us with a photo which, if employed properly, might give us some clues.  Here it is as it appears online:

One of the points I'm always trying to make is that there is a lot of life left in these old academic photos no matter how many times they've been stepped on by the printing and now the digitization process.  Here's what I was able to make out of this photo by judicious post-processing:

First I converted this photo to Grayscale since there's no color info.  I then stretched the brightness range overall to increase contrast and then I separately processed the sky/mountains, the rocks in the foreground, and the middle zone.  After that I selected the dark trees in the middle range and lengthened their brightness curve.  Then the photo was sharpened far beyond what caution would dictate but, in this case, I think it worked.

So what do we wind up with?  Well, the photographer is facing east and looking along the N coast of Crete towards Chania in the upper right.  The mountains on the horizon are the Akrotiri - that bold peninsula which stretches northward and to the east of Chania and where, among other things, the Gouverneto Monastery is located.  I've labelled everything in the next photo:

Now if we can just reproduce this view in Google Earth that will constitute proof that we have the right cape:

When we compare these two photos about the only thing that hasn't changed is the gross outline of the landforms themselves.  The same road along the shore is just visible in both pictures but the little houses that line it in the earlier picture have now been crowded out or replaced by a bloom of touro-junk architecture.  I looked into Google Earth and in this area I counted something like thirty fresh-water swimming pools along with a plethora of tourist 'villas' and a miniature golf course.  This desecration has even begun to extend inland over what were previously farms.  If we ignore all that, though, it's clear that the recreation has singled out the right cape and has even reproduced something like the very same angle of view.

Here's the same area in a Topoguide map:

Here we see Cape Galatas on the left (W) and there can be no doubt about which Cape Dr. Hood intended.  Here it is from directly above:

Somewhere on this plateau the MMI settlement was located.

After doing all this work I discovered a description in Moody [1987].  She says:

"SITUATION: Coastal headland
.6 km W of Kalamaki Beach.  Overlooking the E end of the Stalos and Aghia Marina beach." [2]

If I had started with Moody things would have been much easier.  Here's a map that shows what she means:

This map is from Topoguide and it shows the two beaches to which Dr. Moody refers and Cape Galatas sitting right in the middle.  If you look at the left center of this map you'll see that I placed a white 'x' there.  This marks the approximate position from which Hood's photo was taken.  But more on that in my next post.




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The work of converting the helladic.info site to the new maps is complete and the code (and a new DB) have been delivered.  This conversion work will be ongoing.

All the functionality of Google Maps has been reproduced except for one thing.  On the  Placekey Report and Feature Report pages you no longer have access to Google Street View.  I deeply regret this because the ability in many instances to drop directly down on the landscape was incredibly convenient and illuminating.  But Street View is one of the services for which Google is going to start charging webmasters.  You still have access to Street View from your own copy of Google Earth - it's just that you don't have the convenience of reaching it directly through helladic.info.

I am still integrating the Murray DB to my own.  Currently I'm working on Crete for which more than 600 sites have been integrated and can be reviewed on the website.

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NOTES

[1] Hood [1965] "C. 6. Galatas; 1. 'Psathi'", 108.

[2] Moody [1987] (no page numbers), Appendix III, Site Catalog.  "GA1; Kydonia: Galatis: Kato Stalos: Psathi"

BIBLIO

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.  Online here: 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30103148

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.  Online here: https://www.academia.edu/536263/1987_The_environmental_and_cultural_prehistory_of_the_Khania_region_of_West_Crete_Neolithic_through_Late_Minoan_III

A minor (but frustrating) error in a Cretan gazetteer

“They said they were hair-dressers but … kind of hard to believe.”

Play It Again Sam

Woody Allen

I’m currently taking Mycenaean and Minoan sites from Crete and putting them into the Mycenaean Atlas Project database.  Today I was spotting sites in the very valuable gazetteer article:  Goodison and Guarita [2005].  Everything was going fine until I reached this:

“31. KHRONI KALYVI/ GANGALES

…

Location: After turning off the Ayii  Deka-Heraklion road towards Gangales,  140m on (just after the river) pass tiny chapel on left of road. 30m further on, cut across fields to the right (180m). The tomb is a few metres NW of a barn.” (1)

This tomb, possibly Early Minoan, is a circular tomb and mound of about 11 m. in diameter.  It was robbed in antiquity and, I suspect, of no really great importance or significance in itself beyond helping to fill out the picture of the extent of circular tombs in the Mesara during the EM.  Therefore the most important thing about it would be its exact position and that's what I want to establish.  There are a number of ambiguities in the directions to this tomb so I decided to take this down to the ground and provide a full description of what our authors are trying to tell us.

The main north-south road through the center of Crete runs from Heraklion to a junction with a major east-west road and very near to the town of Aghii Deka. (just a few km. further on one comes to Gortyn.)   And what our authors are saying is that if one turns towards Gangales (away from Ayii Deka to the east) then, after 140 m. one comes to a small chapel and then a road to the right which will lead to this tomb.

I tried every possible way to move 140 m. to the E from the N-S road to the main E-W road but nothing worked.  Actually 140 m. hardly gets you out of Ayii Deka.  There is a river in Ayii Deka and everything almost fit but didn’t quite.  Especially vexing was my inability to spot any tiny chapel on the edge of Ayii Deka. 

I spent a couple of hours on this and finally I just tried a guess.  Perhaps 140 was a mistype for 1400 (or something).  I started again tracing a 1400 m. route from the easiest turn-off from the N-S road to the east (another guess).  At the end of the 1400 m. trace I discovered everything together, the river, the chapel, the barn … everything.   And the ‘tiny chapel’ really was very tiny indeed; in Greece such a thing is known as a kandylakia – a roadside shrine/contribution box shaped like a full-size church.  And standing next to it was another even smaller and even more elaborate kandylakia.   The people of Greece sometimes erect these kandylakia at a place where a traffic death has occurred.  They form a kind of small refuge where a person might stop and pray during the day or light a candle or give a donation.

I don’t know what these kandylakia are called in Crete but ours look like this:

 

Chapel on L, kandylakia on R.

What about the route itself?

In this aerial photo the 1400 m. route is shown in light brown.  The river which Goodison & Guarita mention is in blue.  

Since our authors don't precisely say here is a close-up of the actual exit that Goodison et al. are referring to when they reference the start of this 1400 m. route.  Here's an aerial photo of it:

The route marked in red is the main highway from Herakleion to Ayii Deka.   The outskirts of Ayii Deka are shown on the left (W).  The turn that you make is labelled 'To the Tomb'.

If you're driving towards Ayii Deka then that turn is shown in the next photo from Google Street View.

Time for a close-up of the route's end and a tentative location for the tomb being sought.

This photo shows the route that you're driving on in light brown.  The river that you pass is in blue and the arrow A marks the position of the 'tiny chapel' and the kandylakia.  The line in purple is the 180 m. path that you take 'to the right'. 

Here is a close-up of the east end of the route.  The blue line is the river that Goodison et al. call out.  The lat/lon pair is the position of the 'tiny' chapel.  The circle is centered by the kandylakia and is 30 m. in radius.  Not surprisingly that brings us directly to the road 'on the right' which leads south 180 m. to the tomb.  Our authors say: 'Present structure: Barely discernible raised irregular circular mound of stones, overgrown by vegetation.   D: ?c. 11 m.  ...' (2)

In this picture there is some ambiguity because the tomb cannot now be seen.  I supposed that maybe the structure was to the SE and there is a circular feature there.  But it is not large enough.  Its diameter is only about 2.7 m. and we're looking for a feature with a diameter of 11 m. (approx.).  I also want to point out the feature that I've called a 'Burn Circle' at the lower left.  I often see these more or less circular features in the olive orchards of Greece; they are really just circles of ash where the farmers have burnt orchard rubbish.  Wishful thinking often converts these things into tholoi.

Goodison et al. would have done their research before 2005.  I was able to find the 11/16/03 image of this area in Google Earth.  It does appear to show an anomaly about 7.5 m. to the NW of the NW corner of the barn.  No other image that I examined shows anything at all in that position.  I have drawn a circle of 11.0 meters in diameter centered on that spot to suggest where the tomb may have been.  I emphasize that this is supposition based on what our authors have told us.

So, perhaps the best position for our sought-after tomb is  35.056539° N, 24.982953° E.


No one claims that their work is error-free.  Substituting 140 for 1400 is a tiny error in a really fine and useful article.   In the field of computer science this would be labelled as just a bug.  I shudder to think how many of these things there must be in my own work.  It does illustrate, however, one of the real advantages that digital representation has over traditional print venues for scholarly work.  This article is going to be around for a long time and the description for Tomb no. 31 will be misleading people for as long as it exists.   If the information in Goodison et al. [2005]  (and several hundred others that I could name) were in the form of a database then such a flaw could be repaired for free and turned around in seconds.  It's just like software in that respect.  No professional expects software to be completely free of errors.  No moral opprobrium attaches to this.  Software authors recognize better than most other professionals that, when it comes to details, the human mind is basically trash.  As a result a large part of software implementation consists of making provision for keeping flaws under control.

One of those devices is the version numbering system.  As hideous as it may sound to an academic it may be time to start versioning articles and books.  The versioning information goes along with the article/book and would explain what has changed since the last version and why.  Of course this can only happen if these articles/books are online.   A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Of course I also think that articles and books shouldn't be printed at all.  It's outmoded.  Why commit errors to epistemological prison?

Finally, let me express my gratitude to Goodison and Guarita for providing this gazetteer from which I've learned so much.

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A new database for the Mycenaean Atlas Project (www.helladic.info) was delivered on May 11, 2018.  Approximately 35 new sites were added in the Siteia region of Crete.  The new DB is rev 0059.

Also don't miss my review of Against the Grain by James C. Scott.  It's here: http://mycenaeanatlasproject.blogspot.com/2018/02/some-notes-on-james-c-scott-against.html

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Notes

(1) Goodison and Guarita [2005],  186.
(2) idem.

Bibliography

Goodison and Guarita [2005]:   Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita, 'A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs', Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005.