Knossos and the near East : A Contextual Approach to Imports and Imitations in Early Iron Age Tombs.
Antoniadis, Vyron.
Knossos and the near East : A Contextual Approach to Imports and Imitations in Early Iron Age Tombs. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (184 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- i. Contextual Analyses vs. Empirical Accounts -- ii. Aim and Method -- iii. General Remarks on Knossos -- Figure 1: Map 1: Knossos and the Eastern Mediterranean. -- Figure 2: Map 2: The area of Knossos, the BA Palace and Modern Heraklion. -- Chapter 1: Death and Her Objects: Theoretical Approaches -- i. Interpreting the Mortuary Evidence -- ii. Funeral Rites: Cremation or Inhumation? -- iii. Imports, Imitations and Numbers -- iv. The problem of names: Implications on chronology and terminology -- Table 1: A basic chronological sequence of Knossos based on Coldstream (1996 -- 2001) and on different views of historical dating. -- Chapter 2: Would you like your tomb with or without dromos? Tombs and Society in EIA Knossos -- i. Tomb Typology -- ii. History of Discoveries and Spatial Distribution of Tombs and Cemeteries -- iii. Funerary Rites and Rituals in Knossian Context -- iv. Who used the cemeteries? -- v. EIA cemeteries and BA Tradition -- vi. Additional Archaeological Evidence -- a. From the BA Palace to the EIA Settlement -- b. Cult activity -- vi. Conclusion -- Figure 3: Terminology of the chamber tomb (Tomb 45, Med. Faculty, Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 24). -- Figure 4: A shaft grave and a pit-cave grave, (Tombs 153 and 186 KMF respectively, after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 43). -- Figure 5: Map 3: The location of EIA tombs (redrawn digitally after Coldstream and Catling 1996, 713). -- Figure 6: Map 4: The burial sites within KNC. -- Figure 7 Map 5: Fortetsa SE Tombs. -- Table 2: Graph 1: Numbers of tombs per type. Figure 8: Heraklion Hospital at Knossos, below the fence is Kouskouras the soft yellow limestone, which was ideal for the construction of the chamber-tomb (Photograph by the author). -- Table 3: Graph 2: Maximum and minimum of cremation urns (Cavanagh 1996, 661). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 4: Graph 3: Cremations per year (Cavanagh 1996, 662). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 5: Graph 4: Construction of new Tombs per period. -- Table 6: Graph 5: Construction of new Tombs during the Proto-G period. -- Table 7: Graph 6: Construction of new Tombs during the G period. -- Figure 9: Map 6: The settlement of Knossos. -- Chapter 3: The Near Eastern Connection: The Finds and their Contexts -- i. Revisiting Evidence: -- ii. The Catalogue -- Chapter 4: Who gets the Imports and who the Imitations? -- i. First-level Analysis: The Finds -- a. Provenance of the objects catalogued as imports -- b. Provenance of the objects catalogued as imports or local imitations -- c. The significance of the imitations in relation to their prototypes: The Pottery Factor -- ii. Second-level analysis: Imports, Imitations and Society -- iii. Cluster analysis -- IV. Conclusion -- Table 8: Graph 7: Provenance of imports. -- Table 9: Graph 8: Pottery style in relation to the quantities found at the Knossian Cemeteries. -- Table 10: Graph 9: Near Eastern objects and pots per period. -- Table 11: Graph 10: Material of imports. -- Figure 10: Scarab from Tomb II, Khaniale Teke (Hutchinson 1954, figure 3 and plate 29). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 11: Scarab from Al-Bass, Tyre (Gamer-Wallert 2004, 407-408). Reproduced with permission of Professor Aubet. -- Table 12: Graph 11: Numbers of imports or local imitations. -- Table 13: Chart 1: imported and locally made pottery. Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 15: Graph 12: Shapes and quantities of Near Eastern Pottery found at Knossos Cemeteries. -- Table 16: Graph 13: Shapes of Local Imitations of Near Eastern Pottery and quantities Found at Knossos Cemeteries. -- Table 17: Graph 14: Chronological sequence and quantity of imported pots and of their imitations. -- Table 18: classification of tombs according to imports. -- Table 19: Graph 15: The ten richest tombs across all cemeteries. -- Figure 13: Distribution of Imports at KMF (after Coldstream and Catlin 1996, figure 1). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 14: Distribution of Imports at Teke (after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 2). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 15: Distribution of imports at Fortetsa NE (after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figures 1-6 -- Hood and Boardman 1961, 68). The present author made the synthesis of maps different excavations. Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. Figure 16: Distribution of imports at Khaniale Teke (after Hutchinson and Boardman 1954, 215). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 17 Distribution of imports at Fortetsa NE (after Brock 1957, figure 2). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 18: Distribution of imports at Ayios Ioannis (after Boardman 1960, 128). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 20: Graph 16: Dendrogram of tomb clusters. -- Conclusion: An Overview of the Knossian Early Iron Age Society -- Appendix I: The Tombs and the Burials -- Appendix II: Imports and Imitations -- Bibliography.
In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs.
9781784916411
Excavations (Archaeology)-Greece.
Electronic books.
DF220 .A586 2017
938
Knossos and the near East : A Contextual Approach to Imports and Imitations in Early Iron Age Tombs. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (184 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- i. Contextual Analyses vs. Empirical Accounts -- ii. Aim and Method -- iii. General Remarks on Knossos -- Figure 1: Map 1: Knossos and the Eastern Mediterranean. -- Figure 2: Map 2: The area of Knossos, the BA Palace and Modern Heraklion. -- Chapter 1: Death and Her Objects: Theoretical Approaches -- i. Interpreting the Mortuary Evidence -- ii. Funeral Rites: Cremation or Inhumation? -- iii. Imports, Imitations and Numbers -- iv. The problem of names: Implications on chronology and terminology -- Table 1: A basic chronological sequence of Knossos based on Coldstream (1996 -- 2001) and on different views of historical dating. -- Chapter 2: Would you like your tomb with or without dromos? Tombs and Society in EIA Knossos -- i. Tomb Typology -- ii. History of Discoveries and Spatial Distribution of Tombs and Cemeteries -- iii. Funerary Rites and Rituals in Knossian Context -- iv. Who used the cemeteries? -- v. EIA cemeteries and BA Tradition -- vi. Additional Archaeological Evidence -- a. From the BA Palace to the EIA Settlement -- b. Cult activity -- vi. Conclusion -- Figure 3: Terminology of the chamber tomb (Tomb 45, Med. Faculty, Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 24). -- Figure 4: A shaft grave and a pit-cave grave, (Tombs 153 and 186 KMF respectively, after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 43). -- Figure 5: Map 3: The location of EIA tombs (redrawn digitally after Coldstream and Catling 1996, 713). -- Figure 6: Map 4: The burial sites within KNC. -- Figure 7 Map 5: Fortetsa SE Tombs. -- Table 2: Graph 1: Numbers of tombs per type. Figure 8: Heraklion Hospital at Knossos, below the fence is Kouskouras the soft yellow limestone, which was ideal for the construction of the chamber-tomb (Photograph by the author). -- Table 3: Graph 2: Maximum and minimum of cremation urns (Cavanagh 1996, 661). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 4: Graph 3: Cremations per year (Cavanagh 1996, 662). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 5: Graph 4: Construction of new Tombs per period. -- Table 6: Graph 5: Construction of new Tombs during the Proto-G period. -- Table 7: Graph 6: Construction of new Tombs during the G period. -- Figure 9: Map 6: The settlement of Knossos. -- Chapter 3: The Near Eastern Connection: The Finds and their Contexts -- i. Revisiting Evidence: -- ii. The Catalogue -- Chapter 4: Who gets the Imports and who the Imitations? -- i. First-level Analysis: The Finds -- a. Provenance of the objects catalogued as imports -- b. Provenance of the objects catalogued as imports or local imitations -- c. The significance of the imitations in relation to their prototypes: The Pottery Factor -- ii. Second-level analysis: Imports, Imitations and Society -- iii. Cluster analysis -- IV. Conclusion -- Table 8: Graph 7: Provenance of imports. -- Table 9: Graph 8: Pottery style in relation to the quantities found at the Knossian Cemeteries. -- Table 10: Graph 9: Near Eastern objects and pots per period. -- Table 11: Graph 10: Material of imports. -- Figure 10: Scarab from Tomb II, Khaniale Teke (Hutchinson 1954, figure 3 and plate 29). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 11: Scarab from Al-Bass, Tyre (Gamer-Wallert 2004, 407-408). Reproduced with permission of Professor Aubet. -- Table 12: Graph 11: Numbers of imports or local imitations. -- Table 13: Chart 1: imported and locally made pottery. Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 14: Chart 2: Evolution of local shapes deriving from Near Eastern pots. Brock 1957, plates: 34, 59, 97, 71, 68, 49, 76 -- Coldstream and Catling 1996, plates: 115, 116, 119, 146, 148, 188, 194, 201, 206, 208, 223, 227, 239). Images reproduced with pe -- Table 15: Graph 12: Shapes and quantities of Near Eastern Pottery found at Knossos Cemeteries. -- Table 16: Graph 13: Shapes of Local Imitations of Near Eastern Pottery and quantities Found at Knossos Cemeteries. -- Table 17: Graph 14: Chronological sequence and quantity of imported pots and of their imitations. -- Table 18: classification of tombs according to imports. -- Table 19: Graph 15: The ten richest tombs across all cemeteries. -- Figure 13: Distribution of Imports at KMF (after Coldstream and Catlin 1996, figure 1). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 14: Distribution of Imports at Teke (after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figure 2). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 15: Distribution of imports at Fortetsa NE (after Coldstream and Catling 1996, figures 1-6 -- Hood and Boardman 1961, 68). The present author made the synthesis of maps different excavations. Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. Figure 16: Distribution of imports at Khaniale Teke (after Hutchinson and Boardman 1954, 215). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 17 Distribution of imports at Fortetsa NE (after Brock 1957, figure 2). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Figure 18: Distribution of imports at Ayios Ioannis (after Boardman 1960, 128). Reproduced with permission of the British School at Athens. -- Table 20: Graph 16: Dendrogram of tomb clusters. -- Conclusion: An Overview of the Knossian Early Iron Age Society -- Appendix I: The Tombs and the Burials -- Appendix II: Imports and Imitations -- Bibliography.
In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs.
9781784916411
Excavations (Archaeology)-Greece.
Electronic books.
DF220 .A586 2017
938