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SEMINAR REPORTS 2000 However, the Palaikastro boat appears to depict a small craft rather than a large vessel since its length to beam ratio is limited to 4.5:1. If the argument that the boat has a low bow is accepted, then this ties in with the principle applied by primitive boat builders that made their boats with beamier bows, knowing that the speed of a vessel is affected more by the turbulence at the stern than the shape of the bow. If, however, we were to accept the concept that the Palaikastro boat has a high bow and a low stern, it could be argued that the spur projecting from the now stern' is a fixed rudder. www.arch.soton.ac.uk /Prospectus/CMA/HistShip/rep023.htm   (719 words)

Palekastro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Palékastro (also transliterated as Palaikastro; Godart and Olivier abbreviation PK) is a small village at the east end of the mediterranean island Crete. Palaikastro was first excavated in 1902 by R. Bosanquet of the British School of Archaeology at Athens. Linear A inscriptions on offering tables were designated as PK for Palaikastro by Godart and Olivier but are from Petsophas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palekastro   (625 words)

Lost in Golden Light: Meeting the Goddess in Crete The site has two standing stones that Palaikastro archaeologists say are batyls, rocks that were held sacred, so designated because their weathering is peculiar, smoothed by human lips and hands. Palaikastro was a rich seacoast town in Minoan times; the sea has risen, swamping the old harbor, which site archaeologists hope to unearth this coming summer. Palaikastro is neither the best-known nor the largest Minoan site, and it is relatively hard to reach, at the eastern end of the approximately 150-mile-long island, down switchbacking roads. www.widdershins.org /vol6iss8/oestara01.01.html   (1990 words)

Palaikastro The Bronze Age town, whose original name is not known, is situated at Rousolakkos on the east coast of Crete two kilometres from the village of Palaikastro on a spectacular coastline. Along with many other cities in Crete, Palaikastro was burnt at the end of the Late Minoan IB period, but grew again in the Postpalatial period, (Late Minoan IIB) until it became the largest town in eastern Crete. The location of the town was important as it was on the east coast, with a large plain behind it and a harbour that was sheltered by an outcrop of rock called Kastri hill. www.uk.digiserve.com /mentor/minoan/palaikastro.htm   (394 words)

On the brink of new Minoan revelations PALAIKASTRO - Only this much is certain: About 3,100 years ago, the main port on the eastern edge of Crete was abandoned during the dying gasps of the Minoan civilization. What brought about the end at Palaikastro is just one question in the hugely incomplete picture of the Minoans - a culture connected in the popular imagination with the legendary King Minos, enigmatic labyrinth complexes and the cult of the bull. But research under way in a long-ignored corner of Palaikastro could offer fresh perspectives on the Minoans and reshape ideas of how Bronze Age power and influence was distributed on the island from about 3000 BC to 1100 BC. www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /a1/stoppress/stop606.htm   (876 words)

The Therans and Dikta — The Thera Foundation The new excavations at Palaikastro in east Crete have revealed a series of new buildings constructed in MM IIIB and LM IA on the port side at the north end of the Neopalatial town. The town is shown with a harbour coming up to the buildings, where we believe the harbour to have been at Palaikastro, and a promontory with a large building on it in the same position as the promontory at Palaikastro explored during the first excavations (1902-6) and found to have a large Minoan structure. Crowther (1988) suggests that Palaikastro was probably called Dikta, or Dikte, during the Minoan period, citing the occurrence of the Linear A formula DI-KI-TE inscribed on offering tables found near a cave on the north slopes of Petsophas. www.therafoundation.org /articles/religionmyths/thetheransanddikta   (3040 words)

Akrotiri and its Neighbours to the South: Conical Cups Again — The Thera Foundation More unusual is the fact that Palaikastro has no cup with ayolume greater than 14 cc - this is explained by the 62% of the total amount of cups which fall between 9 and 11 cc. Palaikastro, with a dissimilarity of 4, is almost identical to Akrotiri. Regarding their manufacture, we see that several sites exhibit a high degree of standardization, that is, that the majority of cups fall within narrow ranges regarding the dimensions for height, weight, base diameter and rim diameter (and even volume) and that a large percentage of the total was usually included in the peak measurement (see e.g. www.therafoundation.org /articles/economysociety/akrotirianditsneighbourstothesouthconicalcupsagain   (7476 words)

Untitled Document Of particular interest is the frequent occurrence in these buildings of deposits with cult characteristics, whether in small votive groups, in house shrines or architectural units which may be interpreted as Town Shrines. The Palaikastro Kouros: A Minoan Chryselephantine Statuette and Its Aegean Bronze Age Context, (British School at Athens Studies 6), MacGillivray, J. Driessen and L. Sackett (eds) London, 2000. Palaikastro: Two Late Minoan Wells and their History, (British School at Athens Studies), MacGillivray, J. and L. Sackett (eds) (in press). www.bsa.gla.ac.uk /research/field/recent/pk/main.htm   (424 words)

Ancient Palaikastro - Crete TOURnet Palaikastro was one of the largest Minoan cities, about half the size of Knossos, but much larger than the cities around the other important palaces. In the Greek era, Palaikastro was known for the dispute between the major Greek cities of eastern Crete, Ierapytna and Itanos, over control of the Temple of Zeus Dicteos of Palaikastro. In the Archaeological Museum of Iraklion there are fragments of the temple which record the Hymn to Zeus Dicteos and a clay tablet with a relief of a chariot scene. www.crete.tournet.gr /de/Avdou/Ancient_Palaikastro-si-524-en.jsp   (341 words)

CRETE WINDSURFING HOLIDAYS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The Area of Palaikastro lies approximately 3 hours by car from the airport on the far North Easterly point of Crete. Around Palaikastro, the ‘Meltemi’ increases its power through the local thermal and a funneling effect that gives the ground wind an additional 2 Beaufort. While the children play football, the adults enjoy a traditional meal in the Greek taverns and the youth are having fun in the neighbouring bars, until the early hours. www.planetwindsurf.com /destinations/crete/crete.asp   (553 words)

Itanos Municipality-Crete-Greece The Palaikastro plain was occupied throughout the Bronze Age. Palaikastro also suffered, but here, unlike other towns, the population recovered. Repairs and reconstruction were undertaken during the following century (LM II - LM IIIA) and although there is evidence for a fire around 1370 B.C., contemporary with the final destruction of the palace at Knossos, life continued and prosperity returned. www.palaikastro.com /ancient/index.html   (342 words)

palaikastro Modern Palaikastro lies at the east end of the island of Crete. There is a well sheltered harbour, a low hill on the beach called Kastri (89,79 m) and a plain in which the Minoan city of Palaikastro was built. On its top (254,75 m) there was a large and long occupied peak sanctuary, dated to Middle Minoan II – Late Minoan I. The town of Palaikastro has been carefully laid out along numerous paved streets. www.fltr.ucl.ac.be /fltr/ARKE/ARKA/fsr/Palaikastro.html   (514 words)

The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications The Minoan Kouros Shrine at Palaikastro, Crete, Greece This grant is to support J. MacGillivray's participation in the preparation of two final reports on the excavations in the Bronze Age city beneath the Greek and Roman Diktaion at Palaikastro, Crete. The Kouros Shrine, presents the building adjacent to Building 1 which, we believe, served as the temporary shrine with underground repository in the LM IB period (15`h c. www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Europe/Kouros_03   (291 words)

[No title] All meals during the week are provided by the dig cook at the dig house which is an eighteenth century stone building located at the edge of the modern town of Palaikastro. Palaikastro belongs to the municipality of Itanos and is a small town about 20 min away (19 km) from Sitia at the eastern coast of Crete. In Palaikastro there are 2 internet cafes (charging 1,50 Euros for 20 min), a post- office, a pharmacy and doctor, many places to eat, a super market, a bakery, shops, a bookstore and an ATM machine at the National Bank of Greece which is located next to the Tourist Information Bureau. www.dikemes.gr /2005/programs/Cancelled/info_004.htm   (503 words)

pk "Palaikastro" in modern Greek means, "the ancient castle/fort," a common name in Greece, where there are many ruins from over 5000 years of building; the name in ancient times may have been "Dikta". As you can see the site had good access to the sea, and its port, on the farthest northeastern end of Crete, was probably an important stopping point in trade with the East and Egypt. (Today Palaikastro is known for its excellent windsurfing as well as its archaeological sites.) In the background the conical peak identified with ancient Mt. ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~perlman/myth/pk.htm   (128 words)

THE HYMN OF KOURETES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) It was sung by a choir at the annual Spring festival celebrated in honour of Diktaian Zeus at the Diktaion -his sanctuary at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro hymn starts with the refrain, which was sung between each of the six stanzas. The Palaikastro Kouros, with his link to Minoan initiation rites, probably shows that the mythical dance of the Kouretes and some of the older ideas expressed in this hymn were based on a real performance, which took place at Palaikastro fifteen hundred years before the hymn was composed. www.terzakis.com /kouretes/gillivray.html   (603 words)

Magic Tours - Region infos - Itanos The municipality of Itanos is situated at the East Coast of Crete. It is based in Palaikastro, a small town 19 km from Sitia. Near Palaikastro (1,5 km), a long sandy beach, the sea is ideal for windsurfing and one of the best in Europe. www.magictours.gr /fra/region/r7.php   (1498 words)

Palaikastro Tak jak i wiele innych miast na Krecie, Palaikastro spłonęło w końcu okresu LM IB, ale tak podobnie jak po poprzednim zniszczeniu odbudowano je w okresie post-pałacowym (okres późno minojski IIB) aby stać się największym miastem wschodniej Krety. Większość stanowisk wykopaliskowych Palaikastro zasypała powtórnie ziemia i zarosło roślinnością. Na południe od Palaikastro odkryto sanktuarium znajdujące się na szczycie 225 metrowego wzgórza Petsophas. www.uk.digiserve.com /mentor/minoan/polish/palaikastro.htm   (292 words)

11 Life in the Little Towns Between this bluff acropolis and the southern range of hills stood the ancient town of Palaikastro. It is situated on the ridge of hills that fringe the southern side of the valley, and rises abruptly behind the town, and on the slope of its highest eminence, called Petsofa. The pottery from the pits indicates that there was an earlier Zakro in the Middle Minoan II Period, when Palaikastro I was founded. www.earth-history.com /Greece/Myths/mckenzie-11.htm   (8203 words)

Alonge, Mark The Palaikastro Hymn and the modern myth of the Cretan Zeus Abstract: The Palaikastro Hymn—better known as the Hymn of the Kouretes—does not celebrate a god of pre-Hellenic pedigree, who is Zeus in name only, as scholars have believed with virtual unanimity. Moving out from Palaikastro, in eastern Crete, to survey the island as a whole, I show that the Cretan iconographic and epigraphic records contradict the widely accepted theory of a special, Minoan “Cretan Zeus.” www.princeton.edu /~pswpc/papers/author/alonge/alonge.html   (103 words)

Palaikastro - Dilos Holiday World Palaikastro is one of the few places in Crete for the passionate lovers of wind surfing. Palaikastro in the last few years has become the centre for Wind surfing at the beach of Kouremenos, the naturally clean beach and surrounding waters make the Beach of Palaikastro one of the most popular beach in Crete, for windsurfers. With the Meltemies often blowing strongly in the area, but through the months of July and August then the wind blows strongest in the area. www.dilos.com /location/837   (81 words)

AthensNews onLine SEARCH He's met tephra before at these British excavations at Palaikastro in east Crete, an old hand at seasons spread out between 1986 and 1996, a final one now in closing stages. A Cretan export to Egypt identified at Aswan is part of a double vase typical of east Crete decorated pottery fired in a kiln at Palaikastro about 4,000 years ago, he says. From the tephra corner a cry is raised for Ned Henry, dig video-cameraman, bound for Harvard in the autumn, whose Microsoft family connection usefully equips him to digitise excavation video archives. www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13028&m=A38&aa=1&eidos=S   (1411 words)

Zakros The Palace of Zakros is located on the east coast of Crete, south of Palaikastro. Its position shelters it from the dangerously strong north winds that pass Cape Sidero on the northeast tip of Crete. The site is very remote, and involves a long drive across fairly barren countryside, but the final drive down to the seashore and the setting of Zakros itself is spectacular. www.uk.digiserve.com /mentor/minoan/zakros.htm   (937 words)

The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications Minoan religion remains as mysterious to us as it was to Sir Arthur Evans, who proposed the first interpretations of the representational scenes in Aegean art over a century ago. These two buildings at Palaikastro, both directly associated with the unique and undeniably sacred Palaikastro Kouros, have shed a very great deal of light on what the town shrines in Neopalatial Minoan Crete contained and how their assemblages differed from other urban complexes. The undisturbed destruction deposits in Building 5 enable us to study the two phases of the LM IB period, first identified at Palaikastro, for even greater chronological accuracy into this important time period, contemporary with the Egyptian eighteenth dynasty. fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Islands/Palaikastro_03/index.htm   (160 words)

The history of Palekastros It was also here that Jason and the Argonauts confronted Talos, the man of bronze, a generation before the Trojan War. The earliest written records documenting the worship of Diktaian Zeus at Palaikastro come from the Mycenaean Greek archives at Knossos and date to the close of the Cretan Bronze Age (ca. In addition to development pressures, Palaikastro's harbor and coastal buildings are also threatened by a rise in sea level due to local tectonic activity. www.palekastro.de /dorf_e.html   (510 words)

Classics at Dartmouth College - Palekastro, Crete - Anne Sjogren '06 Many thanks to Anna for providing a window to her experience in Palaikastro. The excavation of this town, started by Robert Carr Bosanquet in 1902, was resumed by M. Popham and L.H. Sackett in the 1960's. The fieldwork this summer consisted of digging test pits in Minoan buildings that were excavated several years ago, with the aim of elucidating specific chronological questions before final publication. www.dartmouth.edu /~classics/Sjogren.html   (249 words)

The Hellenophile The Athens News has a report on excavations being conducted at Palaikastro, Crete, by the British School. In Minoan times, Palaikastro was a port exporting goods across the eastern Med, then later reoccupied by the survivors of whatever disaster befell the Minoan civilization. Today the excavation is being conducted by an international team that includes a descendant of Ernest Hemmingway. blogs.salon.com /0001147/categories/theHellenophile/2003/08/27.html   (803 words)

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