Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . us of Hierapetra, whichdivides Dikte from the Eteocretan country, an Americanlady. Miss Harriet Boyd (now Mrs. Boyd-Hawes), had,with assistance from the University of Pennsylvania,discovered interesting sites of the early Iron Age, andnow, in 1903, found and excavated, with the assistanceof Mr. R. B. Seager, a complete little town of theBronze Age, close to the sea, on the site called Cretan Pompeii now stands with its houses andstreets open to the sky (PI. XXIII), and bereft of its trea-sures of art, ch
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . us of Hierapetra, whichdivides Dikte from the Eteocretan country, an Americanlady. Miss Harriet Boyd (now Mrs. Boyd-Hawes), had,with assistance from the University of Pennsylvania,discovered interesting sites of the early Iron Age, andnow, in 1903, found and excavated, with the assistanceof Mr. R. B. Seager, a complete little town of theBronze Age, close to the sea, on the site called Cretan Pompeii now stands with its houses andstreets open to the sky (PI. XXIII), and bereft of its trea-sures of art, chiefly of pottery and of the best period,whicharenow in the Candia Museum. We can walk up itsamazingly narrow little streets, looking into the rough-walled chambers of its houses as we go, till we reach thesmall open space at the top of the town-mound. Herebetter walls of ashlar masonry, a pillar or two, and anexedra mark the centre of the little provincial town,which gives us so good an idea of how the ordinarypeople of the Bronze Age lived (PL XI, 2). ^ See p-. 209. PLAJE. riu!.. (,. ./. sauuj
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