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Chapter 19 - Artworks in Context

The Historical Framework

from Part IV - Aegean Art in the Second Palace 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 Second Palace period runs from the widespread destructions around 1700 bc, which bring an end to the Protopalatial period, to another major destruction horizon at the end of Late Minoan (LM) IB, c.1450 bc. The latter destructions, often accompanied by fire, have most often been attributed to war-like incursions linked to the arrival on Crete of Mycenaeans, but earthquakes could also have contributed. A combination of these two factors is probable, with natural disasters encouraging hostile actions. Most Cretan sites are then left in ruins, and notably the palaces of Malia, Phaistos, and Zakros definitively so. It is the end of the second palaces. In terms of relative chronology, the period covers both the end of the Middle Minoan (MM III) and the beginning of LM I.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 131 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Adams, 2017: Adams, E., Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period, Cambridge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Duhoux, 2003: Duhoux, Y., Des Minoens en Égypte? ‘Keftiou’ et les ‘îles au milieu du Grand Vert’, Leuven.Google Scholar
Forstner-Müller, and Moeller, 2018: Forstner-Müller, I., Moeller, N. eds., The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research, Vienna.Google Scholar
Hallager, 1996: Hallager, E., The Minoan Roundel and Other Sealed Documents in the Neopalatial Linear A Administration, Liège.Google Scholar
Manning, 2014: Manning, S., A Test of Time and a Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the Mid-Second Millennium BC, Oxford and Philadelphia, PA.Google Scholar
Vercoutter, 1956: Vercoutter, J., L’Égypte et le monde égéen préhellénique, Cairo.Google Scholar
Wachsmann, 1987: Wachsmann, S., Aegeans in the Theban Tombs, Leuven.Google Scholar
Warburton, 2009: Warburton, D. ed., Time’s Up! Dating the Minoan Eruption of Santorini, Athens.Google Scholar

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