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submitted by Museum Administration on 17.10.2003

Small goat skull

Small goat skull
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The goat is probably the most popular of all farm animals on Kythera. When goat’s milk is plentiful, farm wives make the delicious soft cheese called mizithra, by stirring the boiled goat’s milk with the fresh branch of a fig tree.

Skull of a small domestic goat, 18 cm long. Photograph © Peter B. Tzannes, 2003

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