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Kamares ( Greek: Καμάρες, "arches") may refer to the following places:
in Cyprus:
- the Kamares aqueduct in Larnaca
in Greece:
- Kamares, Achaea, a town in the northern part of Achaea
- Kamares, Crete, a village in the southern part of the Heraklion regional unit, Crete
- Kamares, Sifnos, a village on the island of Sifnos
- Kamares, Laconia, a village in the municipal unit Gytheio, Laconia
- the Kavala aqueduct, popularly known as Kamares
in Turkey:
- the Greek name for the village at the site of the ancient city of Parium
Usage examples of "kamares".
Of the later pottery of Knossos, which substituted naturalistic motives, executed in monochrome, for the conventional polychrome designs of the Kamares period, many specimens were also found during the excavations of this season.
In Crete this was the period when the beautiful polychrome Kamares ware was at the height of its popularity, and at Kahun, close to the pyramid of Senusert II.
They cannot tell a Kamares pot from a piece of prehistoric painted ware, and they have no idea who Seti the First was.
The wall paintings show youths wandering through the meadows, gathering saffron flowers, which they placed in Kamares bowls, and maidens wading through fields of lilies.