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).
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May 06, 2025 06:07 PM
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History
A Bronze Age site on the north shore of Crete that may have served as a port for Knossos.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/524143100
35.32, 25.2
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Amnisos (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Amnisos connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Amnisos connection Knosos/Col. Iulia Nobilis Cnosos (unspecified date range)
- Villa of the Lillies (Amnisos) located at Amnisos (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
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Jeffrey Becker, Maija Gierhart, R. Scott Smith, Brady Kiesling, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Amnisos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/524143100> [accessed: 16 February 2026]
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