Melos - NW Coast
Item
File name
sackett_087 See all items with this value
Title
Melos - NW Coast See all items with this value
Description
This image shows a seaside landscape. There are small white boats along the coastline with a mountain in the background. See all items with this value
Place name
Mílos, Nísos (island) See all items with this value
Subject
Landscape
Ocean
Notes
Milos island is a volcanic island in the Agean sea, part of the Cyclades. It was the Aegean Sea's main source of obsidian and prospered in the Neolothic and early Bronze Age. The Ancient city Trypiti/Plaka overlooked the bay of Milos. We know the city was propserous from the 8th to the 6th centuries BCE because the cemeteries at the site.
Date photographed
September 1974
