Knossos and the Near East : a contextual approach to imports and imitations in Early Iron Age tombs / Vyron Antoniadis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antoniadis, Vyron, author.

Series:

Archaeopress archaeology.

Archaeopress archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

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 freer imitations of these objects. The present study reveals the ways in which imported commodities were used to create or enhance social identity in the Knossian context. The author explores the reasons that made Knossians deposit imported objects in their graves as well as investigates whether specific groups could control not only the access to these objects but also the production of their imitations. Dr Antoniadis argues that the extensive use of locally produced imitations alongside authentic imports in burial rituals and contexts indicates that Knossians treated both imports and imitations as items of the same symbolic and economic value.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784916411

1784916412