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The Ancestry of the Minoan Palace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

A. W. Lawrence
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The object of this paper is to attempt to trace the sources of the various architectural elements which compose the palaces of Crete. To a large extent these were derived from overseas, and the better knowledge of Asiatic architecture which has resulted from the publications of recent years calls for some revision of the views held by Evans and Pendlebury. This re-statement isolates and thereby facilitates investigation of the native share in the invention of the palace form, which has much in common with Cretan buildings of the Early Bronze Age. The difference between such buildings and the contemporary work in other regions of the Aegean demands explanation, and a theory which may account for it has at least the merit of offering a reason for the strangest feature of the Minoan palaces, their confused planning.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 46 , November 1951 , pp. 81 - 85
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1951

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1 For the pottery evidence of oriental contacts cf. Kantor, AJA LI (1947), 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar The head of a Sumerian statuette found at Knossos (Pendlebury, Archaeology of Crete, 121, pl. XX 3) can now be dated c. 2000; there is a cast in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge.

2 The chronological treatment by Pendlebury op. cit. makes the position clear.

3 E.g. AJ X (1930), pls. XXIX–XXXV; G. Contenau, Manuel d' Archéologie orientale IV, figs. 1096, 1153, 1167–8.

4 Geographically the most relevant case may be the palace at Qatna (ibid. II 878).

5 E.g. the temple at Qatna and the palace of Yarim-La at Alalakh.

6 Woolley, , AJ XXVIII (1948), 14Google Scholar, from a hall partitioned in Minoan style by columns?

7 Going back to the Neolithic custom of plastering around the base edge of a post-hole (Garstang Story of Jericho 2, 59).

8 Evans did not yet know of the temples at Saqqara when he published PM II ii, figs. 523–4.

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10 Pendlebury, op. cit. 39, fig. 3.

11 Ibid. 63, fig. 7.

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15 None yet found? Alleged examples (Oric Bates, Eastern Libyans) do not meet the requirements.