Knossos North Cemetery

Knossos North Cemetery Early Greek Tombs - BSA Supplementary Volume

Hardback (31 Dec 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A huge four volume work that documents and discusses the excavations that took place between 1967 and 1979 of more than a hundred Early Iron Age tombs from the cemetery one kilometre north of the palace of Knossos. The tombs had rich contents; decorated pottery, iron weapons, bronze vessels and ornaments, and luxury objects of gold, ivory and faience provide an uninterrupted sequence of evidence from c. 1050-630 BC. Volume one documents the tombs themselves and catalogues their finds. Volume two discusses the many different types of pottery found, including orientalising pottery and the many imports-Attic, Corinthian, Euboean, East Greek and Phoenician among them. Also discussed are the objects including terracotta and textile remains, and the burials; the subminoan phase, burial customs and human and animal bones. Emphasis is placed on the role of Knossos in maintaining links with neighbouring regions-with Italy, Cyprus and Phoenicia, the Cyclades and Euboea and, above all, Athens. Volume three contains the figures and a plan of the cemetery and volume four contains the plates.

Book information

ISBN: 9780904887167
Publisher: British School at Athens
Imprint: British School at Athens
Pub date:
DEWEY: 939.18
Language: English
Number of pages: 1541
Weight: 957g
Height: 250mm
Width: 195mm
Spine width: 25mm