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Dating the Temple Repositories vases1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
Abstract
This paper examines a set of the most characteristic decorated vases from the Temple Repositories at Knossos. The aim is to re-assess the date of the destruction of the shrine to which the Temple Repositories material belonged.
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