DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7382#0038
IV. DICTAEAN CAVE (PSYKHRO)
The Dictaean Cave is situated above the upland plain of Psykhro in the Lasithi
Mountains about fifteen minutes' climb from the village of Psykhro. It was a place
for sacred offerings from Middle Minoan times until the beginning of the eighth
century, for the pottery begins with a small deposit of Kamares ware and ends in
good Geometric times without a trace of Oriental influence. The excavators suggest
that its associations may then have been moved to the Idaean Cave.
The cave consists of an upper and a lower grotto, in the latter of which, from the
mud at the bottom, the statuette No. 15 was extracted.
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The Dictaean Cave is situated above the upland plain of Psykhro in the Lasithi
Mountains about fifteen minutes' climb from the village of Psykhro. It was a place
for sacred offerings from Middle Minoan times until the beginning of the eighth
century, for the pottery begins with a small deposit of Kamares ware and ends in
good Geometric times without a trace of Oriental influence. The excavators suggest
that its associations may then have been moved to the Idaean Cave.
The cave consists of an upper and a lower grotto, in the latter of which, from the
mud at the bottom, the statuette No. 15 was extracted.
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