The Palace of Minos
The Palace of Minos
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GBPInspired by Schliemann's discoveries at Mycenae and Troy, Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941), keeper of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum from 1884 to 1908, trustee of the British Museum and fellow of the Royal Society, used his inherited wealth to purchase land in Crete at Knossos. From 1900 he commenced excavations there in co-operation with the British School at Athens. Work continued for eight full seasons, uncovering a Bronze Age palace and bringing to light further architectural and artefactual remains of Minoan civilisation, including numerous texts in Linear A and Linear B. Evans' speculative reconstruction of the site in reinforced concrete remains controversial, and some of his interpretations are disputed, but his pioneering work is painstakingly detailed in this highly illustrated multi-volume work, published between 1921 and 1935, with an index volume appearing in 1936. Part 1 of Volume 4 first appeared in 1935.
Product details
August 2013Paperback
9781108061056
444 pages
297 × 210 × 23 mm
1.06kg
325 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- 90. Plans for structural re-constitution carried to completion
- 91. The Minoan goddess as patroness of the palace bull-ring
- 92. Discoveries of 1930 - outer line of enceinte wall and entrance system to the west
- 93. Fresh lights on polychrome pottery of the Great Age
- 94. A 'snake room' of domestic cult
- 95. The sacred 'adder mark' and a stone statuette of goddess as 'snake mother'
- 96. Altars and ritual of the Knossian goddess
- 97. Architectural friezes and other reliefs from the 'Middle Palace' at Knossos
- 98. Anticipations of later 'palace style'
- 99. The 'palace style' pottery of L. M. II.
