Jenks trying to take the pithos at Sitia Museum

A pithos is a Minoan era storage vessel and not a rather sad attempt at vulgar humour by the aforementioned Jenks: who must now write out 50 times: "Archaeology is a serious subject and is not to be treated flippantly".

Crete 2016.2 Blog 3 Sitia, Makry Gialos, Palekastro

October 9th 2016
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