#knossos-anetaki my beloved

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it’s happening

it’s HAPPENING

*screaming*

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taxi from spili to minoan monastiraki: 31.50€

entrance ticket: 3€

getting to take pictures of the site that even minoancrete.com doesn't have, meeting the rethymno ephorate of antiquities while she and her people are going around the site discussing how to make it better accessible for people: priceless

i'm probably going to be remembered by that taxi driver as an insane person because with the way the buses are set up there was no way for me to get there without having to stay overnight and there was nowhere coming up to stay, so i'm in agia galini, got the bus to spili, and then got the only taxi in that village to drive me to monastiraki, which confused everyone at first because the monastiraki that most people know about is in athens. it's a major tourist attraction! but crete monastiraki is just beyond amari, and it took a moment for this to get figured out.

then i followed the signs. and got lost. then i flagged down a car to ask for directions and the driver was going to the site, because he was helping the ephorate of antiquities and her assistant (??) with deciding how to lay down pathways and make the site more accessible because, let me tell you, there are about three actual pathways laid out and everything else is tramping through long grass.

one of the paths just. stops. and these? the left part is the central court, covered in grass and flowers and everything.

the modern history of the site itself is very interesting considering that john pendlebury (one of my personal heroes, move aside indiana jones) was the first one to start excavating. the nazis took over looking at the site during their occupation of crete, working off of pendlebury's notes since they executed him when he refused to answer any of their questions (he was the leader of the british part of the cretan resistance. the nazis called him 'lawrence of crete' after lawrence of arabia).

this site was also excavated by athanasia kanta (also one of my heroes! she who is in charge of the knossos-anetaki dig, my beloved), and there's a nice portion of it beneath some coverings that i needed to rest under after being very careful not to turn any of my ankles.

i have a problem and it is my addiction to the 'panorama' function on my camera. also how my tumblr is now in portuguese.

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aegaeum (no not the silly math one, l'annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'université de liège et ut-pasp), bestest belovedest of all best beloved annual journals, has finally caught up with the rest of the world and is now doing pdfs along with their physical published books as of vol. 42. the last decade of volumes ranges in price from 75€ (171 pages; a collection in the national arcaheology museum) - 165€ (conference proceedings; 1049 pages).

libgen has the pdfs.

i own three volumes. two of them were over 300CAD$ by the time importation fees were done (the third is actually only 1/3 of the book, which the seller apparently didn't know, so i thought i was getting a really good deal on a three-volume set of books but no it was only one. for 75$).

i am going to save so much money.

(it's all going to be spent on the successive volumes of athanasia kanta's the religious centre of the city of knossos, the publication of the knossos-anetaki dig whenever that 'forthcoming' flips over to actually being published by instap academic press. will they answer my email about it? who knows. but i sent one!)

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*screaming*

articles about finds from the knossos-anetaki site are being published.