RT Book
T1 Knossos and the Near East: a contextual approach to imports and imitations in early Iron Age tombs
A1 Antoniadis, Vyron ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/897212398
AB In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs. Cyprus, Phoenicia, North Syria and Egypt are the places of origin of these imports. Knossian workshops produced close or freer imitations of these objects. The present study reveals the ways in which imported commodities were used to create or enhance social identity in the Knossian context. The author explores the reasons that made Knossians deposit imported objects in their graves as well as investigates whether specific groups could control not only the access to these objects but also the production of their imitations. Dr Antoniadis argues that the extensive use of locally produced imitations alongside authentic imports in burial rituals and contexts indicates that Knossians treated both imports and imitations as items of the same symbolic and economic value
CN DF77
SN 9781784916404
K1 Excavations (archaeology) : Greece : Knossos (Extinct city)
K1 Iron Age : Greece : Knossos (Extinct city)
K1 Tombs : Greece : Knossos (Extinct city)
K1 Excavations (archaeology)
K1 Iron Age
K1 Tombs