Arkalochori (also Arkalokhori) is a modern city in Crete and the archaeological site of a Minoan sacred cave in eastern Crete. The sacred cave was used from 2500 to 1450 BCE. Crete (Greek ΚÏήτη / Kriti; see Wiktionary: Crete for the name in other languages) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Map of Minoan Crete The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, prior to Helladic or Mycenaean culture (i. ...
Arkalochori is not far south from the newly discovered Minoan palace at Galatas. Galatas (Greek: Γαλατάς, meaning milkman), is a town located in the eastern part of the peninsula of the Peloponnese. ...
Archaeology
Bronze and gold double axes have been excavated at the Arkalochori cave. See also Arkalochori Axe. Minoan symbolic labrys of gold, 2nd millennium BC: many have been found in the sacred cave of Arkalochori on Crete) Labrys is the term for a doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus Ï€Îλεκυς or sagaris (the term for a single-bladed axe being hÄ“mipelekus half-pelekus, e. ... The Arkalochori Axe is a votive double axe excavated in the Arkalochori cave by Spyridon Marinatos. ...
Reference
Jones, Donald W. 1999 Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan Crete ISBN 9170811539
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