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Modern Description: Dirt road; probably nothing visible. "In eastern Crete Platon has been excavating near Siteia for the Archaeological Society and made remarkable discoveries. Though partially exhausted by recent illicit digging, the Middle Minoan II-III repository of the shrine of Piskokefalo has yielded a whole series of figurines (most of them unfortunately fragmentary) which represent worshippers of both sexes and are far finer than any hitherto known terracottas of the earlier palatial period. The women's heads have elaborate coiffures and the men long locks, sometimes with a covering, and the dresses of the women show folds at the sides and painted decoration; the modelling of some of the faces is almost classical in appearance. In addition, a whole series of terracottas in the form of the rhinoceros-beetle was dedicated to the deity." (J.M. Cook, AR 1952)

Info: ArchInGreece

Archaeology in Greece, in Archaeological Reports (BSA/Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies)

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