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Chapter 24 - Other Artworks (Stone, Faience, Ivory, Metal, and Textile)

from Part IV - Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period

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

During the neopalatial period, many stone vases are produced, much more elaborately than before, by highly specialised artisans working for the palatial elites, whether it is to do with prestige objects or vases for cult use, as with the zoomorphic rhyta mentioned in Chapter 23. This change is clear in the choice of materials, in the making of complex forms, and in their decoration, which sees the addition of carved relief scenes. Those from the villa of Haghia Triada, like the group of stone vases found in the Sanctuary Treasury of the Zakros palace, are among the best examples of this expertise.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 225 - 241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Barber, 1991: Barber, E., Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean, Princeton, NJ.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clarke, 2013: Clarke, C., The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice, Uppsala.Google Scholar
Davis, 1977: Davis, E., The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware, New York and London.Google Scholar
Foster, 1979: Foster, K., Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age, New Haven, CT.Google Scholar
Jackson, and Wager, 2008: Jackson, C. M., Wager, E. C. eds., Vitreous Materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, Oxford.Google Scholar
Matthäus, 1980: Matthäus, H., Die Bronzegefässe der kretisch-mykenischen Kultur, Munich.Google Scholar
Poursat, 1977: Poursat, J.-C., Les ivoires mycéniens, Paris.Google Scholar
Shaw, and Chapin, 2016: Shaw, M., Chapin, A. eds., Woven Threads: Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age, Oxford and Philadelphia, PA.Google Scholar
Warren, 1969: Warren, P., Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge.Google Scholar

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