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A Minoan and Graeco-Roman settlement about 12 km E of Rethymno. The
site seems to have been first occupied during the Middle Bronze Age, and occupation
in the Late Bronze Age, Geometric, and archaic periods is suggested by pottery
recovered from the site. More intensive occupation, and most of the surviving
and visible remains, however, belong to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
The main Graeco-Roman city was situated on the rising ground E of
the modern course of the stream and just above the shore. Apart from Roman house
walls visible in the cliff face by the shore, there is little to be seen of the
city itself. Tombs belonging to its cemeteries during the Roman period, however,
can be seen to both E and W. A third cemetery area lies to the SW where groups
of rock-cut chamber tombs and rock-cut graves can still be seen.
Outlying remains of some interest include traces of a Late Minoan
sanctuary, which continued to be used as a sacred site during the archaic and
Classical periods, situated on the hill of Kakavella, 400 m SW of the city.
Material from the site is stored both in Rethymno and the Herakleion
museums, and there are also some interesting finds in the collection of Khamalevri
School.
K. Branigan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Eth. Allariates. A city of Crete of uncertain site, of which coins are extant,
bearing on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse a figure of Heracles
standing.
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