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Chapter 45 - Mycenaean Ivories of LH IIIA2–B

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

Cosmetic articles and boxes with ivory plaques are among the offerings deposited in tombs; seats, footstools, and tables inlaid with ivory are mentioned in the furniture inventories from Pylos (Poursat 1977b, 246). The material from the ‘Ivory Houses’ of Mycenae in particular, as well as the remains of workshops from Thebes or Tiryns, attest to the place of ivory working in palatial craft of this period (Tournavitou 1995; Polczyk and Krzyszkowska 2005, 191). The shapes and most of the decorative themes are the same as in Late Helladic (LH) IIB–IIIA1, the period when the ivory workers’ repertoire took shape. But the quality of pieces, the innovative variations on traditional subject matter, and the introduction of some new features all show that ivory as an artform is now fully developed.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 437 - 444
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Krzyszkowska, 2007: Krzyszkowska, O., Well Built Mycenae, fasc. 24. The Ivories, London.Google Scholar
Poursat, 1977: Poursat, J.-C., Les ivoires mycéniens, Paris.Google Scholar
Symeonoglou, 1973: Symeonoglou, S., Kadmeia I. Mycenaean Finds from Thebes, Greece, Excavation at 14 Oedipus St., Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Tournavitou, 1995: Tournavitou, I., The ‘Ivory Houses’ at Mycenae, BSA Suppl. 34, London.Google Scholar

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