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Antiquities of Amari

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

T. J. Dunbabin
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Amari is the district of Crete which lies south-west of Mount Ida. It is a hill-district, consisting mainly of the slopes of Ida and Kedros, which with its craggy sides and hundred springs is no unworthy rival to Ida. Between the two mountains lies the valley of the river Platys. Amari forms an eparchy, with thirty-nine villages, but no large centre of population. The villagers, farmers and shepherds, are an old-fashioned folk; they still maintain many of their traditional customs, dispense an open-handed hospitality, and have more than their share of the war-like virtues of the Cretans.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 42 , November 1947 , pp. 184 - 193
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1947

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References

page 184 note 1 The Archaeology of Crete, 13.

page 184 note 2 The maps in Figs. 1–2 were drawn for me by my sister, Miss M. I. Dunbabin, from material kindly supplied by the Royal Geographical Society.

page 185 note 1 Vine-growing in antiquity is attested by the types of the coins of Sybrita (bunch of grapes, kantharos in the hand of Dionysos: see Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète Ancienne, 313 ff.).

page 186 note 1 Travels in Crete, i, 300.

page 188 note 1 Miss E. Eccles has kindly confirmed my opinion that one of these sherds is neolithic.

page 188 note 2 My informant added that on hearing of the approach of archaeologists the villagers bundled the bones into a chasm in the cave, fearing that the archaeologists would insist on excavating and thus delay the construction of the cheese-house.

page 188 note 3 In view of which local folk-etymology derives the name Vizari from Byzantion.

page 189 note 1 Op. cit., 239.

page 189 note 2 Numismatique de la Crète Ancienne, 313.

page 189 note 3 Svoronos, l.c.

page 189 note 4 Cf. Pendlebury, 365.

page 190 note 1 Quoted by kind permission of the Archaeological Section of the Greek Ministry of Public Education.

page 192 note 1 On the names of this site see Bosanquet, BSA xl, 61.