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Chapter 15 - Other Minoan Relief Arts

Stone Vases, Jewellery, and Minor Arts

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

As with glyptic, it is only on Crete that stone vases are made in the Middle Bronze Age – it seems that neither mainland Greece nor the Cyclades produced them. Stone vases are now made in a wider range of materials: not only serpentine, but also breccias and limestone chosen for their colours or texture. Gabbro, a local stone of white crystals with fine green veining, also starts to be worked, as with a small cylindrical vase from Phaistos (AE1, fig. 152). Shapes continue like those of the preceding period (alabastrons, bird’s nest bowls) and it is often difficult assigning a precise date: a bird’s nest bowl from tomb B at Platanos (AE1, fig. 153), with an incised star as decoration, belongs to the Early Minoan (EM) III tradition.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 101 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Effinger, 1996: Effinger, M., Minoischer Schmuck, Oxford.Google Scholar
Fitton, 2009: Fitton, L., The Aigina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited, London.Google Scholar
Kilian-Dirlmeier, 1993: Kilian-Dirlmeier, I, Die Schwerter in Griechenland (ausserhalb der Peloponnes), Bulgarien und Albanien, Stuttgart.Google Scholar
Warren, 1969: Warren, P., Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge.Google Scholar

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