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<< Text Pages >> Pan Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Greece in Central Greece

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 20 August 2006  Page Views: 4046

Natural PlacesSite Name: Pan Cave
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 8.72 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Central Greece Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Athens  Nearest Village: Marathon
Latitude: 38.158300N  Longitude: 23.931700E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Attica

Cave inhabited during neolithic and later sacred to the God Pan until about the end of Antiquity. Several artifacts are in the Marathon Museum.

This cave is also the site of one of the only two neolithic burials in Attica.
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Re: Pan Cave by nifitsa on Saturday, 16 April 2022
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Link to Topos Text, with description of Pan's cave by Pausinias (110-180 CE)

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