Minoan

ISBN: 9781621390046
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 45
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable po... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780876615423
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 42
Twenty-five years after Colin Renfrew's seminal book, The Archaeology of Cult , was published, the study of ritual and religion in Crete remains one of the most vital and debated areas of research in Old World prehistory. For the present volume,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780981966601
Published by : Hellenic Museums Shop
The Origins of El Greco focuses on the evolution of the multifaceted relationship of Cretan painters with Western art during this rich period. The icon painters in the workshops on Crete in the 15th and 16th centuries-the setting in which El ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805339711
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
These volumes publish the 516 Minoan and Mycenaean seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Although many have been previously published this publication is far more comprehensive than any which precede it and several artefacts previously conside... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931534512
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 26
This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (19821984) and excavations (19871992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842170618
Published by : Oxbow Books
`Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805334501
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
This study uses seals to examine and plot cultural interactions between the Aegean and Near Eastern worlds during the period of Minoan dominance (c.2600-1360 BC). By identifying distinctive features of seals from Anatolia, Syria and Egypt it is... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789087280369
Published by : Leiden University Press
This study aims to construct a historiography of archaeological landscape research on the island of Crete and evaluate the knowledge acquired through different approaches of over more than a centurys intense archaeological work. It provides a d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780904887587
Published by : British School at Athens
Series: BSA Supplementary Volume
Volume: 44
Lord William Taylours excavations at Ayios Stephanos in 1959-77 investigated a port that relied on trade, fishing and metallurgy. It lay just north of the main Minoan east-west trade route via Kythera and exported the rare stone lapis lacedaemo... .... Learn More