Sanctuary of Lower Town

GENERAL

At the Lower Town of the fortified settlement of Minoa has been discovered a cult place. Minoa lies on the hill of Moundoulia, which overlooks the bay of modern Katapola, in the middle of the SW coast of the island.

MONUMENTS

A cult building could perhaps be recognised in the rock cuttings of the Lower Town of Minoa, in the area which was later occupied by a Hellenistic sanctuary. In trenches Δl -v l, NΔ/1, NΔ/3 and NΔ/4 has been discovered an assemblage which consisted of a peribolos wall (Wall 4), a rectangular structure (Walls 1-3) and a deposit.

MOVABLE FINDS: VOTIVE OFFERINGS & CULT EQUIPMENT

Among the finds, clay vessels, metal objects, animal bones and mollusks.

CHRONOLOGY

The finds date from the Late Protogeometric Period until the Early Archaic Period.

 IDENTIFICATION

The cult recipient has not been identified.

 RECORDS

Excavation Date: 1983-1991

Institution/Excavator: Greek Archaeological Society/Marangou L.

Excavation Type: Systematic

REFERENCES

Primary Publications:

Marangou L. 1981. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού, Praktika: pl. IH

Marangou L. 1983. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού,Praktika: 317-320

Marangou L. 1984. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού, Praktika: 355-357

Marangou L. 1985. Αμοργός, Ergon: 66

Marangou L. 1985. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού, Praktika: 180-182

Marangou L. 1986. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού, Praktika: 222

Marangou L. 1988. ΑνασκαφήΜινώαςΑμοργού, Praktika: 161-167

Marangou L. 1988. Τειχισμένοι οικισμοí των Γεωμετρικών χρóνων (9ος-8ος π.Χ. αι.), PAA, 63: 89

Marangou L. 1989. Ανασκαφή Μινώας Αμοργού, Praktika: 268-270

Marangou L. 1991. Ανασκαφή Μινώας Αμοργού, Praktika: 288-292

Marangou L. 2002. Αμοργός Ι: η Μινώα: η πόλις, ο ,ο λιμήν και η μείζων περιφέρεια, Athens, 193-195

Marangou L. 2002. Minoa on Amorgos, M. Stamatopoulou-M. Yeroulanou (eds), Excavating Classical Culture, Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Greece, Oxford, 297-299

Secondary Publications:

Gounaris A. 2005. Cult places in the Cyclades during the Protogeometric and Geometric periods: their contribution in interpreting the rise of the Cycladic poleis, Yeroulanou M., Stamatopoulou M. (eds), Architecture and Archaeology in the Cyclades. Papers in honour of J. J. Coulton, Oxford, 60

Mazarakis Ainian, A., 1997. From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples. Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100-700 B.C.), Jonsered (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 122), 247

Mermoz J. 2010. La vie religieuse des Cyclades de l’HR IIIC à la fin de la période archaïque, Lyon, PhD Thesis, 169-170