Villa of the Lillies (Amnisos)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 18, 2025 11:17 PM
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History
A Bronze Age house at Amnisos, Crete.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/202079426
35.3312741, 25.2071398
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Villa of the Lillies (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Villa of the Lillies (Amnisos) located at Amnisos (unspecified date range)
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S. Marinatos excavated the Villa of the Lillies in 1932; it takes its name from the 1.8-meter-high lily fresco discovered in situ. The villa was destroyed by fire ca. 1450 BC.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Villa of the Lillies (Amnisos): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/202079426> [accessed: 04 April 2025]
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