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Knossos Monastiriako Kephali Tomb and 'Deposit' / by Laura Preston; with contributions by Don Evely, Rebecca Gowland, Valasia Isaakidou and Olga Krzyszkowska.
Penn Museum Library DF261.K55 P74 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preston, Laura, 1972- author.
- Evely, R. D. G., author.
- Gowland, Rebecca, author.
- Isaakidou, Valasia, author.
- Krzyszkowska, O. (Olga), author.
- Series:
- British School at Athens studies ; 22.
- British School at Athens studies ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery, Greek.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Knossos (Extinct city)--Antiquities.
- Knossos (Extinct city).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Knossos (Extinct city).
- Pottery, Greek--Greece--Knossos (Extinct city).
- Pottery, Ancient--Greece--Knossos (Extinct city).
- Pottery, Ancient.
- Greece--Knossos (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 125 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : The British School at Athens, 2013.
- Summary:
- "The archaeological sites on the Monastiriako Kephali hill analysed in this volume include the earliest known mortuary activity at the key Minoan centre of Knossos on the island of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented, known as the 'Tomb' and the 'Deposit', originally excavated in the 1930s but until now never published in detail. The 'Tomb' represents the earliest known funerary site at Bronze Age Knossos, established in the late Prepalatial period and continuing in use until the Neopalatial. The function of the nearby 'Deposit' site is more ambiguous, but a mortuary interpretation is also possible for the phases contemporary with the 'Tomb', and is almost certain for the subsequent Late Minoan II-III era. This volume presents the excavated material held principally in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos. The stone artefacts, human remains, faunal remains, glyptic material and ceramics are described and discussed by Don Evely, Rebecca Gowland, Valasia Isaakidou, Olga Krzyszkowska and Laura Preston respectively, and the sites are placed within the broader framework of Minoan mortuary practices at Knossos during the second millennium BC."--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780904887686
- 0904887685
- OCLC:
- 852661097
- Publisher Number:
- 99954827092
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