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Sklavokambos Minoan Villa
Archaeology · Heraklion Prefecture

Sklavokambos Minoan Villa

Rating
4.8
century
XIX
km · Anogeia
6.7
Anogeia
Sklavokambos Minoan Villa 2
Rare

Clay ox head and stone rhyton

20 nearbyPaliomylos watermill at Gonies, Crete's Geography, Goniano Gorge

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The Minoan mansion of Sklavokambos was discovered in 1930, while constructing the main road to Anogia and a part of it was destroyed by these works. It is a multiple-story building with a main room where a clay ox head was found, along with a Late Minoan IB period style jug and a stone rhyton .

The building had at least 17 rooms. The findings from an upper story included 39 sealings (stamps), a cylindrical vessel, a stone hammer and a clay foot.

Representations from one the Sklavokambos stamps have been found in Zakros , Gournia and Hagia Triada . No frescoes or gypsum finishings were found at the Sklavokambos building, which are commonly found in Minoan palaces.

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