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Rural Ritual in Bronze Age Crete: The Peak Sanctuary at Atsipadhes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Alan Peatfield
Alan Peatfield
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Department of CalssicsUniversity College Dublin
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The Minoan mountain peak sanctuary of Atsipadhes Korakias (Rethymnon, Crete) was excavated by the author in 1989. This article presents the first published account of that excavation and addresses its contribution to broader issues, methodological and interpretative, of Cretan Bronze Age religion. The spatial distribution of over 7500 finds was recorded, enabling the detailed reconstruction of the use and function of the sanctuary. This reconstruction is compared with other approaches to the identification of prehistoric cult places in Greece. Of the other excavated peak sanctuaries, the best known are élite sanctuaries associated with palatial centres; Atsipadhes Korakias is a poor, rural sanctuary, and offers a counterbalanced perspective on Minoan peak sanctuaries.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1992 , pp. 59 - 87
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1992

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