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Cave of Hermes Kranaios/Ayios Antonios

PK	C5655
TITLE	Cave of Hermes Kranaios∕Ayios Antonios
WGS84	35.257982° N, 24.57128° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.257982, 24.57128
LON/LAT	24.57128, 35.257982

DMS

35° 15' 28.7352" N

24° 34' 16.608" E

W3W	exchanges, podium, earbud
UTM	35 S, 279051, 3904357
EGSA87	551818, 3901514

Elevation m	379
Elevation feet	1243.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Amari

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    Cult.   Kanta [1980], 204    'The cave of Patsos, district of Amari, is one of the oldest known Cretan sanctuaries.'
2.    Cult.   Hood and Warren [1966], 186    'While cult there may go back into L.M. I...'
3.    Sanctuary.   Nowicki [2000], 199    '...much of the cult activity in this sanctuary was performed by the inhabitants of Veni.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 186, 'The objects recorded by Halbherr and Evans can be assigned to the L.M. period, ...'

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 186, 'We collected only five sherds, ... , and possibly of L.M. I date;'

3. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 186, '..., most if not all to L.M. III, ...', 'Faure claims to have seen abundant sherds here, assignable to the L.M. III.', '..., it was certainly flourishing during the L.M. III period to which many of the figurines and the clay 'horns of consecration' must be assigned.'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 204, '...the imported Syropalestinian bronze figurine of a man, usually identified as Reshef and dated by Boardman to LM III, ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 205, 'One is an LM III B squat stirrup jar ...'

5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 199, '...the strong continuity of a cult place (...) and the settlement around it during the LM IIIC - PG, G, A and Classical periods.'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 204, '...a bull ... , probably early LM III C in date ...'

6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 199, '...the strong continuity of a cult place (...) and the settlement around it during the LM IIIC - PG, G, A and Classical periods.'

7. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 186, '..., and to the Early Iron Age (Geometric period).'
    b.    Nowicki [2000]: 199, '...the strong continuity of a cult place (...) and the settlement around it during the LM IIIC - PG, G, A and Classical periods.'

8. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 199, '...the strong continuity of a cult place (...) and the settlement around it during the LM IIIC - PG, G, A and Classical periods.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Warren [1966]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '(1) Cave of Hermes Kranaios', pg. 186. Online here.

2. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '1. The Patsos Cave', pg. 204.

3. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '', pg. 199.