On the Road Again: A Trajanic Milestone and the Road Connections of Aptera, Crete

Bowsky, Martha W. Baldwin; Niniou-Kindeli, Vanna

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“…The Latin road inscription presented above provides new and tantalising evidence for the road connections of Knossos. The Roman road now marked much further to the north by this inscription – itself the result of rescue excavations – might not have been the main artery that connected the north central coast of Crete with the south, which ought to have been marked by milestones like those found near Eleutherna, Aptera and Kisamos (Tzifopoulos 2004; Bowsky and Niniou-Kindeli 2006). In the Roman period a bridge over the Kairatos could mark another route leading from Knossos to the north (Hood and Smyth 1981, 40 no.…”

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Four Inscriptions From Greater Knossos and the Road to Its Port at Heraklion (Crete)

Bowsky

2012

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Four inscriptions of Hellenistic to Early Roman date were found in rescue excavations undertaken during the construction of public housing at the location Bedevi, east of Leophoros Knossou in the suburbs of modern Aghios Ioannis (Heraklion). These four inscriptions constitute an intriguing group as they provide evidence of a rural installation where a vessel with an inscribed lid was stored, a sepulchral site and private worship of Artemis, as well as a point between ancient Heraklion and Knossos where a Roman road crossed the Chrysopigis stream. In antiquity this area was part of the greater Knossos area, albeit closer to Heraklion than to Knossos. These four inscriptions provide new evidence for the nature of this area and for the northern road connections of Roman Knossos, particularly the road that linked Knossos with its harbour at Heraklion.

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Section: The Road Connections Of Knossosmentioning

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Four Inscriptions From Greater Knossos and the Road to Its Port at Heraklion (Crete)

Bowsky

2012

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Casati

Kulvicki

Zeimbekis

2020

Philosophical Books

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In that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire, the entirety of a province. In time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the cartographers' guilds struck a map of the empire whose size was that of the empire and which coincided point for point with it. The following generations, who were not so fond of the study of cartography as their forebears had been, saw that that vast map was useless, and not without some pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the inclemencies of sun and winters. In the deserts of the west, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars, in all the land there is no other relic of the disciplines of geography.-Jorge Luis Borges, "On Exactitude in Science" in Collected Fictions (1998, 325)."And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!""Have you used it much?" I enquired."It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well." -Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1894, 169). "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick," said the Witch; "so you cannot miss it…" -L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1899, 27).

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The Imperial Cult: A Cretan Perspective

Bowsky¹

2023

Electrum

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Forty years after the publication of Sanders’ Roman Crete, a broader range of evidence for the imperial cult on Crete is available—temples and other structures, monumental architectural members, imperial altars, portraiture and statuary, coinage, statue and portrait bases, other inscriptions, priest and high priests, members and archons of the Panhellenion, and festivals—and far more places can now be identified as cities participating in the imperial cult. This evidence can be set into multiple Cretan contexts, beginning with the establishment and evolution of the imperial cult across Crete, before locating the imperial cult in the landscape of Roman Crete. The ultimate Cretan contexts are the role of emperor worship in the lives of the island’s population, as it was incorporated into Cretan religious and social systems.

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On the Road Again: A Trajanic Milestone and the Road Connections of Aptera, Crete

Cited by 3 publications

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Four Inscriptions From Greater Knossos and the Road to Its Port at Heraklion (Crete)

Four Inscriptions From Greater Knossos and the Road to Its Port at Heraklion (Crete)

Borgesian maps

The Imperial Cult: A Cretan Perspective

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