archaeography

229.90m. Roughly N 37° 23.306 E 023° 23.306.

A bronze disk is fitted atop a geodesic column, cemented atop the peak of Profitis Ilias, formerly known as Kokkygion, which was in even earlier times known as Thornax, located just over 2km west of the present town of Ermioni in the southern Argolid.

Such elevation columns dot the Greek countryside. The bronze disks they support provide hardened links between locales on the ground and coordinates within the national triangulation grid of Greece on paper. In their capacity as points of reference, they act as critical team members of hundreds of archaeological surveys throughout the country.