Two cult structures from Mycenae and from a sanctuary recently discovered at Phylakopi, on the island of Melos, shed a new light on the sacred architecture of the Aegean at the close of the Bronze Age. This paper suggests that the edifices of both these sites should be classified as popular places of worship. This suggestion is based on their location, layout and size as well as on their foreign architectural affinities. The Phylakopi sanctuary, located against the fortification wall of the town, consists of a major temple to which a subsidiary shrine is attached. The pair of adjacent structures located on the lower terrace of the acropolis of Mycenae, are of approximately the same size, presumably possessing the same religious status. The three edifices bear several asymmetrical features, such as indirect entrances and corner platforms that have no parallels elsewhere in the Aegean. These features are diagnostic to a special type of Canaanite temples that prevailed in maritime posts and harbour sites. There are indications, however, that in spite of the foreign architectural affinities, the cult practised in the Mycenae structures and in the major temple of Phylakopi was distinctively Aegean. On the other hand, architectural and contextual data seem to support the assumption that the subsidiary shrine of Phylakopi was reserved for foreign cult, practised by Canaanite traders.

A slab reused in the altar of Ayios Nikolaos at Avlemon in Kythera bears a fragmentary honorific inscription. It is argued that it is from a dedication to the Emperor Hadrian.

The head of an archaic marble statue was removed from the wall of a private house on Siphnos in 1936, during the excavations of J.K. Brock and G. Mackworth Young. It was placed in the local museum. It is argued that the modelling of the head dates it to the middle of the sixth century BC. The hair shows that it comes from a sphinx, probably one of the earliest examples of the type, of Cycladic origin, and it has the head turned to one side. It probably comes from the acroterion of a temple.

During the second major season of excavation conducted in 1987, more evidence was found for the extent of crop storage in the Bronze Age Settlement together with a ‘street’ that appeared to have been in use in the latest Bronze Age and earliest Iron Age. Fragments of bronze casting debris suggest the possibility of bronze working at the site around 1150 BC.