Palaikastro, Crete
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 17, 2021 01:08 PM
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History
Palaikastro, located in eastern Crete, was an important trading center in antiquity, from the Bronze Age going forward.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/213924739
35.1975776, 26.2541749
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Palaikastron (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Παλαίκαστρον (Palaikastron: Modern Greek)
- Palaikastro, Crete part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Zeus Diktaios, T./Eleia? located near Palaikastro, Crete (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Palaikastro is associated with the port of Itanos and with the nearby Minoan site of Roussolakkos near the Chiona beach. The so-called Palaikastro Kouros, a chryselephantine statue of the fifteenth century B.C., was discovered at Palaikastro.
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Palaikastro, Crete: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/213924739> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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