In 1962 a shrine for the Greek Goddess Eileithyia was discovered in south-central Crete at the modern town of Tsoutsouros, ancient Inatos. A Greek language book highlighting the shrine and its major discoveries is here translated into English, providing images, catalog entries and explanatory texts for the most important discoveries.
A cave shrine in Crete (ca. 2000 BC to Roman Imperial) dedicated to the Greek goddess Eileithyia contained remarkable offerings of gold, ivory, bronze, and clay. This deity of childbirth and motherhood was worshipped with clay figurines of pregnant women and mothers holding babies among other images.