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Chapter 33 - Artworks in Context

The Historical Framework

from Part VI - Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos

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

The period of around a century that begins c.1450 bc with the destruction of the Second Palaces on Crete is a pivotal time when the foundations of a new palatial civilisation develop on the mainland. It encompasses the ceramic phases Late Helladic (LH) IIB (roughly contemporary with Late Minoan (LM) II) (C. Hershenson, in Mendoni and Mazarakis-Ainian 1998, 161–8), LH/LM IIIA1, and the very beginning of LH/LM IIIA2. Fairly well delimited on Crete by the 1450 bc destructions and a major destruction of the final palace of Knossos c.1370 bc, it is harder to define precisely on the mainland where ceramic phases follow each other without visible break on most sites. Yet it is a new period for Mycenaean civilisation, during which artistic changes coincide with rapid social development.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 329 - 333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Driessen, and Macdonald, 1997: Driessen, J., Macdonald, C., The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption, Liège.Google Scholar
Georgiadis, 2003: Georgiadis, M., The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period: Islands, Landscape, Death and Ancestors, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Langohr, 2009: Langohr, C., Periphereia. Étude régionale de la Crète aux Minoen Récent II-IIIB (1450–1200 av. J.-C.). 1. La Crète centrale et occidentale, Leuven.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, 1978: Papadopoulos, T., Mycenaean Achaea, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Phialon, 2011: Phialon, L., L’émergence de la civilisation mycénienne en Grèce Centrale, Leuven.Google Scholar
Vercoutter, 1956: Vercoutter, J., L’Égypte et le monde égéen préhellénique, Cairo.Google Scholar
Wachsmann, 1987: Wachsmann, S., Aegeans in the Theban Tombs, Leuven.Google Scholar

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