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Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete - Highlights of the Collection (Hardcover)
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Honors to Eileithyia at Ancient Inatos: The Sacred Cave of Eileithyia at Tsoutsouros, Crete - Highlights of the Collection (Hardcover)
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In 1962, after a period of secret looting, the location of a shrine
for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered by the police in
south-central Crete at the modern town of Tsoutsouros, ancient
Inatos. The cave dedicated to this ancient goddess of childbirth
and motherhood was excavated that year by Nikolaos Platon and
Costis Davaras on behalf of the Archaeological Museum in
Herakleion. It was filled with remarkable votive gifts including
over 100 items of gold along with Egyptian figurines and seal
stones, bronze objects, and hundreds of clay figurines. The dates
of the shrine's use extended from before 2000 B.C. to the Roman
Imperial period. Many of the clay images are especially appropriate
for this deity because they include pregnant women, embracing
couples, figures in preparation for childbirth, mothers holding
babies, and a young child in its crib. A Greek language book
highlighting the shrine and its major discoveries is now translated
into English. It provides images, catalog entries, and explanatory
texts for the most important discoveries from this unique shrine.
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