Knossos and the Near East : a contextual approach to imports and imitations in early Iron Age tombs

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. Cyprus, Phoenicia, North Syria and Egypt are the places of origin of these imports. Knossian workshops produced close or f...

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Main Author: Antoniadis, Vyron (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd , [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Contextual Analyses vs. Empirical Accounts
  • ii. Aim and Method
  • iii. General Remarks on Knossos
  • ch. 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
  • ch. 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
  • vii. Conclusion
  • ch. 3. The Near Eastern Connection: The Finds and their Contexts
  • i. Revisiting the Evidence
  • ii. The Catalogue
  • ch. 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.