Trapeza, Crete

{{Short description|Trapeza, Crete is a Neolithic and Bronze Age sacred cave on the island of Crete in Greece}}

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Trapeza, Crete is a Neolithic and Bronze Age sacred cave on the island of Crete in Greece.[http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/2.html The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809130609/http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/2.html |date=2011-08-09 }} Some of the Bronze Age pottery finds at Trapeza are similar to specimens recovered at Knossos and Vasiliki.C. Michael Hogan, [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10854/knossos.html#fieldnotes Knossos fieldnotes, Modern Antiquarian (2007)]

It is described as a "burial cave", and sometimes called the "table of Minos" (trapeza meaning 'table' in Greek).

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{{commons category|Minoan Trapeza Cave (Lasithi)}}

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Category:Minoan sites in Crete

Category:Neolithic settlements in Crete

Category:Ancient caves of Greece

Category:Sacred caves

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