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Chapter 41 - Artworks in Context

The Historical Framework

from Part VII - Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period

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

The Mycenaean palatial period can be compared to the peak of the Cretan Second Palace period of Late Minoan (LM) I, in terms of both its length and splendour. It lasts for around 150 years, from the appearance c.1350 bc of the palaces at Pylos, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Thebes until their disappearance c.1200 bc. In terms of relative chronology, it includes a first phase (Late Helladic (LH) IIIA2), defined by a ceramic style that comes to an end in the last third of the fourteenth century bc (M. Wiener, BSA 98, 2003, 239–50; D. Aston, in Gauss 2011, 1–12). The following phase (LH IIIB), which spans the thirteenth century bc, is itself subdivided in two parts (B1 and B2), separated by significant destructions, particularly at Mycenae and Tiryns. Around 1200 bc, the palaces are destroyed, never to be rebuilt; all signs of the existence of an administration (writing on tablets, sealings) disappear.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 393 - 397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Galaty, and Parkinson, 2007: Galaty, M., Parkinson, W. eds., Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces, II, Los Angeles, CA.Google Scholar
Fischer, and Bürge, 2017: Fischer, P. M., Bürge, T. eds., ‘Sea Peoples’ Up-to-Date: New Research on Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE, Vienna.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fotiadis, 2017: Fotiadis, M. et al. eds., Hesperos: The Aegean Seen from the West, Leuven and Liège.Google Scholar
Killebrew, and Lehmann, 2013: Killebrew, A., Lehmann, G. eds., The Philistines and Other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.Google Scholar
Laffineur, and Greco, 2005: Laffineur, R., Greco, E. eds., Emporia: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, Liège.Google Scholar
Phialon, 2011: Phialon, L., L’émergence de la civilisation mycénienne en Grèce centrale, Liège.Google Scholar
Schnapp-Gourbeillon, 2002: Schnapp-Gourbeillon, A., Aux origines de la Grèce (XIIIe–VIIIe siècles avant notre ère), Paris.Google Scholar

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