Crete in Transition
Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Published on 31. December 2010
380 pages
978-1-62139-004-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable pottery from excavated sites fills in the so-called 6th-/5th-century gap and dispels the prevailing view that this was a period of decline in population and one of artistic and cultural impoverishment. The 6th century heralded important changes in Cretan society, reflected in the reorganization of burial grounds, new patterns of sanctuary dedication, and the circulation of exotica among the elite. The study reveals unsuspected connections with mainland Greece, especially Sparta and Athens. Historians and archaeologists will find the author''s conclusions, and their implications, to be of considerable interest.
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Brice L. Erickson
Crete in Transition
Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods
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Content
- Intro
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER 1: Archaic and Classical Crete: The "Period of Silence
- ARTISTIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE
- LITERARY TESTIMONY AND CRETAN ISOLATION
- NEW DIRECTIONS
- CHAPTER 2: Methods of Ceramic Analysis
- CHRONOLOGY
- PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
- LOCAL AND REGIONAL STYLES
- CRETAN CERAMIC SEQUENCES
- CHAPTER 3: Eleutherna
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
- IMPORTED POTTERY
- Corinthian
- Lakonian
- Argive(?)
- Attic
- Archaic
- Fourth Century
- Cretan Imports
- Knossian
- Kydonian(?)
- Aphrati(?)
- Gortynian
- LOCAL POTTERY
- High-Necked Cup
- Late Archaic and Classical
- Fourth-Century and Hellenistic
- Low-Necked Cup
- Deep Cup with Offset Rim
- Small Hemispherical Cup
- Krater
- Tray, Bowl, and "Skyphos"
- CHAPTER 4: Knossos
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
- Royal Road, Well H
- Unexplored Mansion
- Stratigraphical Museum Excavations
- Sanctuary of Demeter
- "Shrine of Glaukos"
- Area of the Southwest Houses
- KW (Wells)
- Chronological Implications of Imports
- ARCHAIC POTTERY
- Imports and Imitations
- Early Cup Bases
- Deep Cup with Offset Rim
- Small Hemispherical Cup
- Cup Base with a Stepped-Profile Underfoot
- Jug Base with a Ring Foot
- LATE ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL POTTERY
- High-Necked Cup
- Late Archaic
- Classical
- Fourth Century
- Low-Necked Cup
- Kantharos
- Tulip Cup
- "Bellied" Cup, "Skyphos," Lekane, and Household Krater
- "Bellied" Cup
- "Skyphos" and Lekane
- Household Krater
- Jug Nozzles
- CHAPTER 5: Lamps: Eleutherna and Knossos
- ARCHAIC TYPES
- CLASSICAL TYPES
- FOURTH-CENTURY TYPES
- CHAPTER 6: Gortyn
- Archaic Cups
- High-Necked Cups
- Other Shapes
- Imports and Exports
- CHAPTER 7: Isthmus of Ierapytna
- IERAPYTNA
- Classical Lekythos
- VROKASTRO AND GOURNIA
- Archaic Cup Bases
- Jug Bases
- Imports
- CHAPTER 8: Praisos and Its Territory
- EARLY JUG
- ARCHAIC JUGS AND HIGH-NECKED CUPS, SURVEY SITE 14
- ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL HIGH-NECKED CUPS
- HELLENISTIC CUPS
- ATTICIZING EXAMPLES
- CHAPTER 9: Pottery Styles and Influences
- LOCAL STYLES
- REGIONAL STYLES
- OVERSEAS INFLUENCE
- CHAPTER 10: Internal Transformations
- THE KNOSSIAN RECESSION
- DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
- BURIALS
- SANCTUARIES
- CHAPTER 11: Overseas Trade and Cretan Society
- OVERSEAS IMPORTS AT ELEUTHERNA
- ECONOMIC MODELS
- CRETE AS TRANSSHIPMENT POINT
- CRETE AND PELOPONNESIAN TRADE
- Kydonia and Peloponnesian Trade
- OVERSEAS TRADE AND ORIENTALIZING SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 12: Archaic Cretan Austerity and the Spartan Connection
- FEASTING AND CRETAN INSTITUTIONS
- THE ELUSIVE ANDREION
- FROM INSTITUTIONS TO IDEOLOGY
- CENTRAL CRETAN AUSTERITY
- CENTRAL CRETE, SPARTA, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL AUSTERITY
- REFRENCES
- INDEX
