Sybrita was an acity-state built on terraces of a hill dominating the valley of Amari. It was first settled before the end of the Minoan period, it survived into the first Byzantine period.
See:
- Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt: Travels and Researches in Crete. John van Voorst, Paternoster Row., London 1865.
- John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury: The Archaeology of Crete. An Introduction. Taylor & Francis, London 1939
- Niki Metaxa Prokopiou: Sybrita Amariou: First Indications for a New LM III C Site. In: La transizione dal Miceneo all’Alto Arcaismo, dal palazzo alla città. Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma 14-19 marzo 1988, Rom 1991, pp. 373–401.
- sv. SYBRITA or Sybritos (Thronos) Amari district, Crete. in: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
- Anna Lucia D'Agata, Ritual and rubbish in Dark Age Crete: The settlement of Thronos/Kephala (ancient Sybrita) and the pre-classical roots of a Greek city, Aegean Archaeology 4, 1997-2000, Warsaw (2002), pp.45-59
- idem: The power of images. A figured krater from Thronos Kephala (ancient Sybrita), SMEA 54, 2012, pp. 207-247