Honors to Eileithyia at ancient Inatos: the sacred cave at Tsoutsoros, Crete: highlights of the collection and The shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood at the Inatos cave in southern Crete. Vol. 1. The Egyptian-type artefacts.

Anastasia Kanta, Costis Davaras and Philip P. Betancourt, with contributions by Davaras, G. Flouda, C.E. Galanaki, D. Grigoropoulos, D.Z. Kontopodi, G. Marakis. C. Papadaki, M. Perna, E. Platon, P. Themelis, and R.H. Wilkinson, Honors to Eileithyia at ancient Inatos: the sacred cave at Tsoutsoros, Crete: highlights of the collection and Günther Hölbl, with contributions by P.P. Betancourt and K. Chalikias, The shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood at the Inatos cave in southern Crete. Vol. 1. The Egyptian-type artefacts. Prehistory Monographs 69.

Abstract

These two works in a planned series are rooted in an initiative by Museum of Heraklion staff and a local Cretan organisation interested in reclaiming local heritage assets. With funding from INSTAP, these groups sponsored study of ancient objects found in the Inatos/Tsoutsouros cave on the south coast of central Crete. These objects have never been previously studied as a group and derive from looting returns/confiscations/identifications and finds from emergency excavations in response to looting: the latter were conducted by Nikolaos Platon and Costis Davaras in 1962.