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Lasithi in Ancient Times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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Recent excavations in the district of Lasithi in Crete have both raised and answered a number of historical problems which, while not suitable for inclusion in a strict excavation report, may yet properly be the subject of an essay in honour of one who did so much for the archaeology and topography of Crete in the early days.
It must be remembered that the following pages are suggestions intended merely to stimulate further enquiry on a less restricted scale. In prehistoric archaeology certainty is impossible. A definite set of facts may be interpreted in two quite different ways, both equally possible. The only hope is to fit the greatest possible number of facts into the framework and to make sure that there is no vital fact which contradicts the whole.
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page 194 note 1 BSA XXXVI p. 5 ff. and a forthcoming number of the BSA. See particularly the map of the district BSA XXXVI p. 7. The following article is the result of many symposia with Miss Money-Coutts and Miss Pascoe during the course of the dig. It is impossible to apportion the blame for any suggestion with certainty.
page 195 note 1 BSA VI p. 101.
page 195 note 2 BSA XX p. 1 ff.
page 196 note 1 I have elsewhere tried to show that the destruction of the great centres was due to the action of enemies, not of an earthquake. Archaeology of Crete, p. 228 ff. Even if it was an earthquake, however, it does not affect the present argument.
page 196 note 2 Ibid. p. 225 ff.
page 196 note 3 In Venetian times this was recognised as so great a danger in this district that the plain was put ‘out of bounds’ on pain of mutilation. Cf. BSA XX p. 12.
page 197 note 1 BSA, Cretan Palaces and Aegean Civilisation.
page 197 note 2 He himself may well have been a Minoan. We need not worry about his relationship to the 
Rhadamanthys. Even now fair hair and blue eyes are common in parts of Crete never reached by the Venetians.
page 198 note 1 I have just built a house on Karphi and I know.
page 198 note 2 Coarse sherds, particularly from pithoi of LM I and the Intermediate Period, are almost indistinguishable.
page 199 note 1 Strabo, X iv.
page 199 note 2 Toutain, Cavernes Sacrées, suggests that there may be a second Diktaian Cave in the east. The only possible candidate I have been able to find is Latsidha above Pefkoi near Praisos. It is too choked with stones for anything to appear on the surface, but it is the most impressive cave in that part of Crete.