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The Function of the `Minoan Villa'
edited by Robin Hagg
A collection of twenty papers presented at the Eighth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, in June 1992. The contributors examine diverse aspects of villa-type buildings in both Neo- and Protopalatial Crete; these include the ...
Paperback. Price GB £47.50
Glyphbreaker
by Steven Roger Fischer
Here is an interesting book. The author is famous for his decipherment of Easter Island's `rongorongo' script ... but the content, a new translation of the mysterious Minoan Phaistos disc, is the stuff of a million crackpot theories. Written in an ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £15.50, Our Price GB £5.95
Minoan and Mycenean Art
by Reynold Higgins
A concise, richly illustrated survey of the art of ancient Crete, Mycenae and the Cycladic islands. Frescoes, jewellry, sculpture, gold funeral masks, ivories and many other beautiful artifacts bear witness to the rich Aegean cultures of the third and ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.95
Aegean Frescoes of religious Character
by Lisa Kontorli-Papadopoulou
Drawing on much previous work on Aegean frescoes as a whole, the author here focuses on those of religious significance as a specific group with the hope of contributing to the understanding of this difficult area of Greek prehistory. She presents a ...
Price GB £69.50
Minoan Religion: A Bibliography
compiled by Inger Marie Ruud
A bibliography of published work on all aspects of Minoan religion from about 1900 onwards. The list is not comprehensive but aims to be as complete as possible, preferring a good selection of useful books rather than a list of everything that is ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.50
Minoischer Schmuck
by Maria Effinger
A comprehensive study of the types of Jewellery yielded by the graves of the Minoan period and illustrated on sculpture, relief and in pictorial representations. Effinger analyses each type - plate-metal,rings, bracelets, beads, pendants and pins - and ...
Paperback. Price GB £48.00
Minotaur and Centaur
edited by D Evely, I S Lemos, S Sherratt
In commemoration of the work of Mervyn Popham this festschrift contains 22 essays concerned with the archaeology of Crete and Euboea. Studies include an examination of the role of Crete in Homeric epic, a consideration of the role of the `little palace' ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
Altagaische Architekturbilder
by Thomas Norling
Our main evidence for the appearance of Mycenaean and Minoan buildings, that is the vertical plane versus their horizontal plan, comes from representations on friezes, pots or other media. This examination of the major examples of this art includes the ...
Hardback. Price GB £49.95
Pseira I: The Minoan Buildings on the West Side of Area A
by Philip Betancourt
Pseira, a tiny islet near the coast of eastern Crete, has been called a priceless jewel in Crete's archaeological crown. In 1906 and 1907, the American archaeologist Richard Seager unearthed the extensive remains of a Bronze Age village on Pseira. Little ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.50
Minoan Crafts: Tools and Techniques
by R. D. G. Evely
^BMinoan Crafts: Tools and Techniques by R. D. G. Evely A synthesis of Minoan crafts and the tools used in their processes. Evely begins with the major tool-types, outlining the characteristics of chisels, knives, saws, axes and adzes, with brief ...
Paperback. Price GB £57.00
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