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Phaistos (Extinct city) --- Hagia Triada Site (Greece) --- Gortyna (Extinct city)
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Richard B Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the northeast coast of Crete, in 1907, although this work was never published. More recently, the Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip P Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the cemetery area, cleaned and drew plans of all the visible tombs, and excavated tombs that had not been previously investigated. The results of these new excavations are published in two volumes. This volume, Pseira VI, covers the methodology that was employed in the investigation, the topography of the cemetery area, details of Seager's campaign, the ceramic petrography for the cemetery pottery, and the results of the intensive surface survey. The survey showed that the cemetery was first used in the Neolithic period, and that it was abandoned in Middle Minoan II, before the expansion of the nearby town in the Late Minoan I period. It also demonstrated that the cemetery was larger than the area suggested by Seager, and that the funerary customs included burial in jars, even though no examples of this burial type have been excavated.
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Minoans --- Tombs --- Pseira Island (Greece)
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Pottery, Minoan --- Minoans --- Pseira (Extinct city) --- Pseira Island (Greece) --- Architecture, Minoan --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Pseira Island --- Pseira Island (Greece) - Antiquities --- Architecture, Minoan - Greece - Pseira Island.
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"In 1962, after secret looting, a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in south-central Crete at the modern town of Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos). The cave dedicated to this ancient goddess of childbirth and motherhood was excavated that year by Nikolaos Platon and Costis Davaras on behalf of the Archaeological Museum in Herakleion. It was filled with votive gifts including over 100 items of gold along with Egyptian figurines and seal stones, bronze objects, and hundreds of clay figurines. The shrine was use starting before 2000 B.C. and continuing to the Roman Imperial period. Many of the clay images are especially appropriate for this deity because they include pregnant women, embracing couples, figures in preparation for childbirth, mothers holding babies, and a young child in its crib. A Greek language book highlighting the shrine and its major discoveries is now translated into English. It provides images, catalog entries, and explanatory texts for the most important discoveries from this unique shrine"
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Eileithyia --- Eileithiia --- Eileithüia --- Eileithyiai --- Eĭleĭtii︠a︡ --- Eileitija --- Eilithia --- Eilithyia --- Eilythia --- Ejlejtyja --- Eleuthia --- Ilifii︠a︡ --- Ilithia --- İlithiya --- Ilithyia --- Ilithyie --- Ilitia --- Ilitii︠a︡ --- Ilitija --- Ilitio --- Ilizia --- Ειλείθυια --- Илития --- Илитија --- Илифия --- Ілітія --- Іліфія --- Ейлейтія --- Eileithyia Cave (Tsoútsouros, Greece) --- Tsoútsouros (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Eileithyia Cave (Greece). --- Greece --- Tsoútsouros (Greece)
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