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Chapter 36 - Metalwork, Jewellery, and Various Ornaments

from Part VI - Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Bronze vessels become more and more common on the mainland. Previously limited to the main Peloponnesian centres (tombs at Mycenae, Sparta, Pylos), they now appear in the regions of Achaea, Attica, and Boeotia (Matthäus 1980, maps pl. 64 A and B). There are also many on Crete, in the palace of Knossos and in the warrior burials (M. Popham, H. Catling, BSA 69, 1974, 247–52). They consist chiefly of large basins, adorned at the rim and handle, as well as piriform jugs with a decorated band on the shoulder (AE2, fig. 93). Taking their inspiration from Minoan Neopalatial vessels, the typical motifs are ‘snails’ (Matthäus 1980, n° 392), common also in goldwork or ivory, or stylised lilies, as on the rim and shoulder of an oenochoe from tomb 12 at Dendra (Åström 1977, pl. XXVII).

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 356 - 363
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Demakopoulou, 1996: Demakopoulou, K. ed., The Aidonia Treasure: Seals and Jewellery of the Aegean Late Bronze Age, Athens.Google Scholar
Matthäus, 1980: Matthäus, H., Die Bronzegefässe der kretisch-mykenischen Kultur, Munich.Google Scholar
Pini, 2010: Pini, I., Aegean and Cypro-Aegean Non-Sphragistic Decorated Gold Finger Rings of the Bronze Age, Liège.Google Scholar

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