PKey Report

PK	C5853
TITLE	Archanes: Anemospilia
WGS84	35.255413° N, 25.144564° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.255413, 25.144564
LON/LAT	25.144564, 35.255413

DMS

35° 15' 19.4868" N

25° 8' 40.4304" E

W3W	giant, oversell, hang
UTM	35 S, 331206, 3902946
EGSA87	603972, 3901680

Elevation m	430
Elevation feet	1410.8
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Temple

TYPE

1.    Temple.   Myers et al. [1992], 51    'The important temple at Anemospilia'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan IIB: (1775 BC - 1750 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 51, 'II. USE MM IIB - IIIA'

2. Middle Minoan IIIA: (1750 BC - 1700 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 51, 'II. USE MM IIB - IIIA'

NOTE

1. Site of a temple(?) and a spectacular find (the body of a male who had apparently been sacrificed). The discovery was made by Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki in the late 1970s. and a popular account by them may be found here: 'Drama of Death in a Minoan Temple', National Geographic (159:2) 204 - 22.

For more see the notices in Archaeological Reports (26) 50-51 and Archaeological Reports (27) 42.

There is also a good account by Gilles Touchais in the BCH here: 'Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques en Grèce en 1979', (104-2) 673-6.

D.D. Hughes provides a sober corrective in Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, (ISBN: 0-203-03283-7), 14-17.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '2 Archanes - Anemospilia', pg. 51.