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| HISTORY Building 5 was a wealthy, Late Minoan I town-house with 21 rooms (fig. 1). Built over an old MM III house, which may have been destroyed by earthquake, it suffered two serious disasters in its 250 year long history, both in the LM IB period. The first was followed by major rebuilding with a new interior plan; the second was fatal. The building was burnt to the ground and abandoned except for a late reoccupation in the northwest wing. |
 Fig. 1 Town plan with Building 6 highlighted |
 Fig. 2 Ground plan - green: colonnaded court, blue: LM IB rebuild, red: the Kouros sanctuary |
 Digital reconstuction with second floor |
| FINDS From the storerooms 7-13, 18, and19 came pithoi and jars for grain, oil and wine (fig. 5a), a nest of small vases in a tripod cooking pot (fig. 6), and jugs and cups (many fallen from wooden shelves). Room 8 contained objects of bronze (fig. 7) and ivory, and a clay nodule impressed by a fine gold ring with a hunting scene (fig. 8). A deposit of textile weights in Room 19 shows that weaving was one of the activities of the occupants. Cult objects include cup rhyta (Room 8) (fig. 9), and a stone stand for a bronze double axe in the main room 5. Although the shrine proper was sealed off from the rest of the building, these cult objects may indicate that the main part of the building was also linked to religious activities; perhaps this was the house of a priest. |
 Fig. 7 Bronze chisels |
 Fig. 8 Sealing with hunting scene and reproduction ring by I Markakis, Sitia |
 Fig. 8 Sealing with hunting scene and reproduction ring |
 Fig. 9 Cup rhyton |
 Fig. 5á |
 Fig. 6 |
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| C Permission Granted by directors: Mr H.Sackett, Professor A.MacGillivray, Professor J. Driessen and the British School At Athens Archivist. |