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(a)(b)Figure 6.6 A. Detail of the crocus- gathering scene, from a painting above a lustral basin on the
east wall of Xeste 3, Thera. B. Crocus cartwrightianus.
A is from Shaw, M. C. (1993), The Aegean garden. American Journal of Archaeology 97:661– 685; B is from
Ference, S. C., and G. Bendersky (2004), Therapy with saffron and the goddess at Thera. Perspectives in
Biology and Medicine 47:199 – 226.