Tylisos (also Pyrgos-Tylissos or Tylissos; el, Τύλισος;
Linear B
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: ''Tu-li-so'')
palaeolexicon.com, "Mycenaean Greek and Linear B"
Palaeolexicon. is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete
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, Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Malevizi
Malevizi ( el, Μαλεβίζι) is a municipality in Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town of Gazi. The municipality has an area of .
Municipality
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, of which it is a municipal unit.Minoan
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from 1450B ...
peak sanctuary
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and town. The Municipality of Tylisos was created in 1999 and includes 11 villages. The economy is based on agriculture, mainly grape cultivation (accounting for 4.8% of the island’s production) and olive cultivation. At the same time stock farming of sheep, goats and chickens and beehive farms are abundant.
Archaeology
Tylisos was excavated 1909–1913 by Joseph Hadzidakis, 1953–1955 by Nicholas Platon and in 1971 by A. Kanta. The town was in use Early Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIA, and the peak sanctuary, excavated in 1963 by Alexiou, was in use until at least Late Minoan IA. Structures include houses, a cistern
A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by t ...
and an aqueduct with clay pipes. Excavation finds have included a pithos
Pithos (, grc-gre, πίθος, plural: ' ) is the Greek name of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and ...
with Linear A
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inscriptions, stone horns Horns or The Horns may refer to:
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* The Horns (Colorado), a summit on Cheyenne Mountain
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, and clay human and animal figurines.
There are also a significant number of caves including the Kamilari Cave, Hainospilios Cave, Trapeza Cave, Doxa
Doxa (; from verb )Henry Liddell, Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott (philologist), Robert Scott. 1940.δοκέω" In ''A Greek–English Lexicon, A Greek-English Lexicon'', edited by Henry Stuart Jones, H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford. ...
and Arkaliospilio. There are also two gorges which are namely: the Almiros gorge, the Gonies gorge.
Agrotourism is also a very popular among visitors all year round. Arolithos village, Ktima Kares and Agrotikon are the most visited sites for this and other leisure activities.
Also nearby is Sklavokampos.
References
Sources
* Jones, Donald W. 1999 ''Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves of Minoan Crete''
* Kyriakidis, Evangelos, 2005, ''Ritual in the Aegean: The Minoan Peak Sanctuaries'', London: Duckworth publishers
* Kyriakidis, Evangelos 2007, ‘Finding Ritual: Calibrating the Evidence’, in Kyriakidis, E. (ed.), 2007. ''The Archaeology of Ritual'', Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA publications, pp. 9–22
External links
Minoan Crete, Tylissos page
Peak sanctuaries
Populated places in ancient Greece
Cretan city-states
Populated places in Heraklion (regional unit)
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