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§ 42. The Harbour Town of Knossos : Minoan Shipping and
Marine Goddess.
Harbour Town of Knossos, immediately East of Candia ; Probable course
of main road from Knossos to Port; A Iternative line; Candia, military founda-
tion ; Minoan settlement West, by Platyperama mouth ; Tylissos and Massif
of Ida ; Evidences of subsidence on Coast; Submerged quarries—method of
splitting rock; Sttbmerged column-bases and sacrificial Vat at Niru Khani ;
Earlier land line ; Minoan relics from Harbour Town—rich tombs ; Bronze
figurine, unfinished; The'Fitzwilliam' Statuette—a Mother Goddess; Lapi-
daries Quarter—trial-piece of intaglio engraving ; The ' Piraetis of Knossos ' ;
Haven at river mouth ; Ships on Minoan Seals; Early1,FixedRudders'; Fish
ensign on Early Cycladic vessels—may mark Aegean element in Early Nilotic
craft; Preference of early navigators for open sea ; Single- masted sailing vessels
on Early Minoan seals ; Sailing ship on M. M. Ill intaglio with signs of sail
decoration; Ships on L M.JI seal-impressions from Knossos; Transport of
thoroughbred horses from Syrian side; Type of vessel on ring from Tiryns
Treasure—the deck cabin; Ship on Proto-Geometric Vase from Messenian Pylos
—rectirrence of Fish ensign; Rudder on Knossian tablet with Linear Script B;
Ship signs on Minoan Hieroglyphic tablets and tablets of Linear Class A ;
Goddess holding anchor ; Marine aspect of Minoan Goddess; Advent of sacred
barque on MochlosRing; Primitive raftoflsis Pelagia—her modern representa-
tive, Hagia Pelagia ; her cult on site of Harbour Town at Knossos, at Mallia,
and elsewhere; The Madonna as Lady of the Sea.
It is clear that the main seaport of Knossos, which formed the Northern site of
goal of the overland route across the Island, lay immediately East of the ^wnot
present town of Candia. This was the point of departure and arrival to and Knossos
irninc™
from the Cyclades and Mainland Greece, or still farther afield North or diately E.
West. Following the coast in that direction from the West mole of the old ofCandia-
harbour of Candia, Minoan remains, including sherds of all periods, rock-cut
foundations, and traces of house walls abound superficially for the space of
quite a mile, and Neolithic axes may also be picked up on the rocky surface
of the headlands, pointing to very early habitation. The main centre of
civic life seems to have lain on the easy slopes that rise from the left bank
of the Kairatos river approaching its mouth, but plentiful traces of occupation
extend to the headland looking down on the river-mouth to the right, which
juts out beyond and shelters the offing on that side (see Sketch-Map).
Just East of the walls of Candia there stretches a small sandy flat
Marine Goddess.
Harbour Town of Knossos, immediately East of Candia ; Probable course
of main road from Knossos to Port; A Iternative line; Candia, military founda-
tion ; Minoan settlement West, by Platyperama mouth ; Tylissos and Massif
of Ida ; Evidences of subsidence on Coast; Submerged quarries—method of
splitting rock; Sttbmerged column-bases and sacrificial Vat at Niru Khani ;
Earlier land line ; Minoan relics from Harbour Town—rich tombs ; Bronze
figurine, unfinished; The'Fitzwilliam' Statuette—a Mother Goddess; Lapi-
daries Quarter—trial-piece of intaglio engraving ; The ' Piraetis of Knossos ' ;
Haven at river mouth ; Ships on Minoan Seals; Early1,FixedRudders'; Fish
ensign on Early Cycladic vessels—may mark Aegean element in Early Nilotic
craft; Preference of early navigators for open sea ; Single- masted sailing vessels
on Early Minoan seals ; Sailing ship on M. M. Ill intaglio with signs of sail
decoration; Ships on L M.JI seal-impressions from Knossos; Transport of
thoroughbred horses from Syrian side; Type of vessel on ring from Tiryns
Treasure—the deck cabin; Ship on Proto-Geometric Vase from Messenian Pylos
—rectirrence of Fish ensign; Rudder on Knossian tablet with Linear Script B;
Ship signs on Minoan Hieroglyphic tablets and tablets of Linear Class A ;
Goddess holding anchor ; Marine aspect of Minoan Goddess; Advent of sacred
barque on MochlosRing; Primitive raftoflsis Pelagia—her modern representa-
tive, Hagia Pelagia ; her cult on site of Harbour Town at Knossos, at Mallia,
and elsewhere; The Madonna as Lady of the Sea.
It is clear that the main seaport of Knossos, which formed the Northern site of
goal of the overland route across the Island, lay immediately East of the ^wnot
present town of Candia. This was the point of departure and arrival to and Knossos
irninc™
from the Cyclades and Mainland Greece, or still farther afield North or diately E.
West. Following the coast in that direction from the West mole of the old ofCandia-
harbour of Candia, Minoan remains, including sherds of all periods, rock-cut
foundations, and traces of house walls abound superficially for the space of
quite a mile, and Neolithic axes may also be picked up on the rocky surface
of the headlands, pointing to very early habitation. The main centre of
civic life seems to have lain on the easy slopes that rise from the left bank
of the Kairatos river approaching its mouth, but plentiful traces of occupation
extend to the headland looking down on the river-mouth to the right, which
juts out beyond and shelters the offing on that side (see Sketch-Map).
Just East of the walls of Candia there stretches a small sandy flat