Cone Pyramid of Chania

35.5200°N, 24.0200°E.

The Cone Pyramid of Chania in western Crete, Greece — a small dressed-stone pyramidal or conical structure documented in the early-twentieth-century Greek archaeological literature with date recorded as Uncertain. Original base approximately 6 metres in diameter; original height around 4 metres in a tapering structure of dressed limestone blocks set in mud mortar. The Chania structure is unusual among the documented Greek pyramids for its conical rather than strictly pyramidal cross-section, complicating its classification as a member of the Greek pyramid corpus alongside the dressed-square monuments of the Argolid. Excavated only in cursory survey; no secure stratigraphic dating has been published. The structure has been variously interpreted as a Bronze Age funerary monument, a Classical-period watchtower, an early Christian shepherd's shrine, or a medieval Venetian-period observation post.

A small dressed-stone tapering tower in western Crete, sometimes counted in the corpus of Greek pyramids and sometimes excluded, with no resolved date and no securely identified original purpose.