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LM IB Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences
edited by Thomas M. Bogan and Erik Hallager
This large two volume work publishes the proceedings of a 2007 workshop at the Danish Institute at Athens, and contains articles on LM IB pottery with coverage from almost every LM IB site in Crete, as well as material from further afield. As well as addressing methodological problems relating to the incomplete publication of the huge LM I assemblages, prominent themes include regional trends in ceramic production, and relative chronology and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine
by Nanno Marinatos
Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south. Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a 'cultural koine', or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated ...
Hardback. Price GB £38.00
From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 BC
edited by Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Giorgos Rethemiotakis and Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki
This is a unique two volume box set revealing the history of Crete's luminous Minoan civilization. Volume one is a catalogue of the over 280 objects that were included in the exhibition. It features detailed descriptions as well as excellent color photographs of the wide ranges of rare objects included in the exhibition. While each object is dealt with separately the volume nonetheless covers numerous aspects of the Minoan culture such as ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'
Oxbow says: Crete has become a seemingly endless source of new archaeological discoveries in recent years, feeding a burgeoning tourist industry but, six years after the centenary of the archaeological re-discovery of Crete by Evans and his contemporaries, it is pertinent to look back at how the history of Crete's past has been created. This collection of sixteen essays, first given at a workshop held in Venice in 2005, presents a critique ...
Paperback. Price GB £140.00
Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery. Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P Betancourt, 104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA, 5 January 2003
edited by Malcom H Wiener, Jayne L Warner, Janice Polonsky and Erin E Hayes
Philip P Betancourt revolutionised the study of Minoan pottery - just one of the many aspects of his career that led to his Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This volume presents some of the most recent studies in Minoan pottery using the techniques and methodologies pioneered by Betancourt. An essential collection for any scholar of Minoan pottery or of Aegean Prehistory in general. 157p, col and b/w illus ...
Hardback. Price GB £32.00
Des Minoens en Egypte?
by Y. Duhoux
This study presents and evaluates evidence for cultural and especially physical contact and interaction between the Keftiou, the name given to the Minoans by the Egyptians, and the Egyptians themselves. Is it likely that Minoans set up home in Egypt? If so, how were they regarded? Duhoux looks at both textual and iconographic evidence to begin to answer such questions, focusing in particular on the tomb of the Vizir Rekhmire at Thebes tied in ...
Hardback. Price GB £62.00
The Palace of Minos at Knossos
by Chris Scarre and Rebecca Stefoff
A very basic introduction to Sir Arthur Evans' famous excavations at Knossos and the reconstruction work he oversaw. 47p col illlus (Oxford UP 2003)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £12.95, Our Price GB £4.95
The Cave Sanctuary of Zeus at Psychro: A Study of Extra-urban Sanctuaries in Minoan and Early Iron-Age Crete
by L. Vance Watrous
A study of extra-urban sanctuaries in Minoan and early Iron Age Crete. The study includes a catalogue of the clay finds from the Psychro cave high in the Cretan mountains and sacred to the Cretan Zeus. They have never been published but comprise a large ...
Paperback. Price GB £64.00
The Minoan Roundel and Other Sealed Documents in the Neopalatial Linear A Administration
by Erik Hallager
A thorough study of the entire corpus of Minoan roundels - a unique type of admistrative document which took the form of a clay disk with seal impressions on the rim and linear A signs on the faces. They were never attached to objects and are only found ...
Paperback. Price GB £145.00
The Funerary Landscape at Knossos. A diachronic study of Minoan burial customs with special reference to the warrior graves
by Madelaine Miller
Paperback. Price GB £31.00
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