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II. The Site
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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A detailed description of the district known as Lasithi, as well as of the ancient remains found in it, has already been given in the accounts of the present expedition's previous explorations. A brief account therefore will suffice here.
The plain of Lasithi lies towards the east end of Crete, about 2800 feet above sea level, and is completely surrounded by the mountains known in antiquity as Dikte. It was thickly populated in antiquity, and the many tracks, practicable in all weathers for pack-animals, which led up to it from every direction kept it in touch with the outside world.
The hills which fringe the plain to the north are to-day drier and more inhospitable than those to the south. In ancient times, however, there is reason to believe that they were at least as well wooded.
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page 61 note 2 BSA XXXVI pp. 5Google Scholar ff. Later additions to the list of sites there given are to be found above pp. 1 ff. See also a very good description, Petrou, Kh., Κρητικὲς Σελίδες, II 211Google Scholar.
page 61 note 3 In Strabo's time Dikte also referred to the Thriphte mountains and the hills in the far east of the island. For an explanation of the presence of two Diktes see ‘Papers presented to Professor J. L. Myres,’ BSA XXXVII p. 199Google Scholar.
page 63 note 1 Cf. Archaeology of Crete pp. 6 f.
page 65 note 1 Cf. the legend of Trapeza. BSA XXXVI p. 17Google Scholar. The quantity of Archaic pottery figurines of animals, etc., found round about Vitzelovrysis (see p. 100 below) seems to have lent some colour to the story.
page 65 note 2 It is noteworthy that this is one of the few areas in Lasithi where pithos burials are not said to be found.
page 67 note 1 No traces of sun-dried bricks were found, though it is quite possible that such were used.