LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia

Birgitta P. Hallager

Πόλη: Stockholm

Έτος: 2025

Εκδότης: Swedish Institute at Athens

Σειρά: ActaAth-4°, 61

Περιγραφή: Σκληρό εξώφυλλο, 184 σ., 190 έχρωμες & ασπρόμαυρες εικόνες

The date of the de­struc­tion of the palace at Knos­sos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean pre­his­tory since the palace was ex­ca­vated at the be­gin­ning of the 20th cen­tury. The ex­ca­va­tor Arthur Evans ar­gued for an LM II date as he pre­sumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace de­struc­tion lay­ers must have been writ­ten by the peo­ple who had pro­duced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II pe­riod. Af­ter his death Evans’ date has been ques­tioned, keenly de­bated and fi­nally low­ered to early LM IIIA:2. No­body, how­ever, has stud­ied the amount and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the lat­est pot­tery of LM IIIB date found in the palace, its con­nec­tion to the in­scribed tablets and its pres­ence in the sur­round­ing houses, town and ceme­ter­ies. The LM IIIB pottery in Knos­sos is here scru­ti­nized through the Day and Note Books of the ex­ca­va­tion, the orig­i­nal ex­ca­va­tion re­ports in the An­nual of the British School at Athens and the published sherds and com­plete vases. Fi­nally the close con­nec­tions be­tween the two largest LM IIIB towns, Knos­sos and Ky­do­nia—cur­rently the only ones in Crete with Lin­ear B tablets—are high­lighted.

Περιεχόμενα

Pref­ace [7-8]
The Knoss­ian con­tro­versy [9-10]
In­tro­duc­tion [11-13]
The LM IIIB ev­i­dence from the palace [15-71]
The LM IIIB pot­tery from the palace [73-91]
The LM IIIB ev­i­dence from the houses sur­round­ing the palace [93-126]
The LM IIIB ev­i­dence from the tombs [127-157]
The Knos­sos–Ky­do­nia re­la­tions [159-168]
Con­clu­sions [169-173]
Ref­er­ences [175-184]