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Amnisos

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Maija Gierhart, Tom Elliott

Last modified May 09, 2022 01:23 PM — History

tags: KMPP, extant remains, Minoans

A Bronze Age site on the north shore of Crete that may have served as a port for Knossos.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/524143100

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.32, 25.2

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- location of Amnisos (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ἀμνισός (Amnisós: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- 𐀀𐀖𐀛𐀰 (a-mi-ni-so: Ancient in Linear B Greek, 1600 BC - 1080 BC)

Amnisos makes connections with:

Amnisos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
Amnisos connection Knosos/Col. Iulia Nobilis Cnosos (unspecified date range)

Amnisos receives connections from:

Villa of the Lillies (Amnisos) located at Amnisos (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement, port

References:

Evidence:

Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 10.4.8

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, Maija Gierhart, and Tom Elliott, 'Amnisos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/524143100> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/524143100 |title=Places: 524143100 (Amnisos) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 11:48 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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