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Chapter 13 - Minoan Architecture in the First Palace Period

from Part III - Aegean Art in the Cretan First 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

It is difficult to get a sense of the palaces’ overall plans because we only know them in patches. The best conserved group of rooms comes from Phaistos (Levi 1976; F. Carinci, 9th Cretological, 2006, vol. A2, 23–39). Neopalatial construction on the top of the acropolis has meant that an important section of the remains of the first building, at a lower level on the southwest slope, has been preserved (Figure 13.1). Particularly notable among these remains are rows of storage magazines and a set of spaces interpreted as cult rooms; thousands of clay sealings that were baked in the fire marking the end of the period attest to the existence in this sector of administrative activity.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 87 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Driessen, 2002: Driessen, J., Schoep, I., Laffineur, R. eds., Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces, Liège-Austin.Google Scholar
Girella, and Caloi, 2019: Girella, L., Caloi, I., Kamilari: Una necropoli di tombe a tholos nella Messarà (Creta), Athens.Google Scholar
Hult, 1983: Hult, G., Bronze Age Ashlar Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, Ugarit, and Neighboring Regions, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Shaw, 2009: Shaw, J., Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques, Padova.Google Scholar

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