Technically gifted: Votive deposits from Kamiros acropolis

The ancient settlement of Kamiros is located on the west coast of Rhodes, 37 km southwest of Rhodes town. Crowning a hill roughly the shape of a horseshoe, Kamiros acropolis rises 35 m.a.s.l. and is topped by a triangular plateau. It is surrounded by cemeteries on the neighbouring hillsides: to the south are Papatislures and Casviri, to the east are Kechraki and Macri Langoni, and to the west is Fikellura (Figure 1). Our current understanding of Kamiros acropolis during the Archaic and Classical periods is based on what is published from Italian excavations in Clara Rhodos.¹ However, the exact findspots