Metaxia Tsipopoulou, with a contribution by Eleni Nodarou. Petras, Siteia II. A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete. Late Bronze Age Pottery from Houses 1.1 and 1.2. Prehistory Monographs 67.

Abstract

Systematic publication of Petras, a large multiperiod Cretan coastal site with the earliest material found dating to the Final Neolithic, is aided by the straightforward format and layout of the Prehistory Monograph volumes. Here, pottery of the Neopalatial period mainly from one building; House I.1, forms the excavator’s focus (the architecture, deposits and other finds having been published in 2016: M. Tsipopoulou, Petras, Siteia I: a Minoan palatial settlement in eastern Crete. Prehistory Monographs 53. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press). The building, lying north of and below a palace or administrative building on the hill summit, includes the earliest complex stone olive pressing installation discovered in the Aegean but is likely residential in character like its less-excavated neighbour I.2, with two floors reconstructed.