Abstract
Abstract Recently discovered Mycenaean shrines built towards the end of the Bronze Age have given fresh grounds for reducing the paradoxical obscurity of religious architecture on the Greek mainland and nearby isles in this and earlier periods. A variety of recognized and potential cult structures is shown here, by orientation and equipment, to define two types of double and two of single sanctuaries, which contained two basic classes of shrines with largely opposed features. These can be systematically explained by reference to divinities associated with shrines and attested in other Aegean material. The contextual approach used may provide alternatives to currently uninformative criteria for such evidence, and elucidate its relation to secular buildings.
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