The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos

Arthur Evans

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139795296

The Palace of Minos

A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos

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Volume 2, Part 2
Arthur Evans

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
First published in:: 1928
Online ISBN:: 9781139795296
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139795296

Subjects:: Prehistory, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology

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Inspired 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 2 of Volume 2 first appeared in 1928.

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The Palace of Minos

A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-xiv

LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY PLATES
pp xiv-xiv

NOTE TO READER
pp xiv-xiv

50 - ‘HOUSE OF THE CHANCEL SCREEN’ AND ‘ROYAL VILLA’
pp 391-413

51 - THE NORTH-EAST HOUSE AND THE IMPORT OF ITS CONTENTS— M. M. III b AND L. M. I a: ‘PITHOID JAR’ TYPE AND MINOAN ‘AMPHORAS’
pp 414-430

52 - THE ‘HOUSE OF THE FRESCOES’
pp 431-467

53 - INFLUENCE OF NATURAL AND OTHER DESIGNS OF M. M. III WALL-PAINTINGS ON LATE MINOAN CERAMIC DECORATION
pp 468-512

54 - ‘THE LITTLE PALACE’ AND ITS PILLAR CULT: THE BULL'S HEAD ‘RHYTONS’
pp 513-544

55 - EXTENSION OF THE TOWN OF KNOSSOS: MONUMENTAL REMAINS AND EARLY CEMETERY BEYOND THE KAIRATOS
pp 545-558

56 - THE ‘BROAD KNOSSOS’ OF HOMERIC TRADITION: GOLDEN AGE OF MINOAN CRETE
pp 559-571

57 - STATE APPROACH TO PALACE FROM NORTH AND WEST: ‘ROYAL ROAD’ AND ‘THEATRAL AREA’
pp 572-587

58 - NORTH-WEST CORNER ENTRANCE TO PALACE, AND SANCTUARY HALL; HALF-ROSETTE AND TRIGLYPH BANDS
pp 588-608

59 - THE WEST COURT: ITS CAUSEWAYS AND ALTARS; AND NORTH-WEST TREASURE HOUSE
pp 609-622

60 - PALATIAL BRONZE HOARD FROM NORTH-WEST TREASURE HOUSE AND CONTEMPORARY DEPOSITS FROM PRIVATE HOUSES
pp 623-659

61 - WEST PORCH AND ENTRANCE SYSTEM, EARLIER AND LATER: THE ‘CORRIDOR OF THE PROCESSION’
pp 660-685

62 - THE ‘SOUTH PROPYLAEUM’, EARLIER AND LATER, AND ‘CUP-BEARER FRESCO’
pp 686-718

63 - THE PROCESSION FRESCO, WITH COMPARATIVE MATERIALS; EGYPTIAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MINOAN ENVOYS FROM ‘KEFTIU’; ‘THE CAPTAIN OF THE BLACKS’
pp 719-757

64 - CEREMONIAL SOUTH-NORTH CORRIDOR. I. DEPOSIT OF SEAL-IMPRESSIONS— ‘YOUNG MINOTAUR’ AND COUNTERFEIT MATRIX: THE ‘PALANQUIN FRESCO’
pp 758-773

65 - CEREMONIAL SOUTH-NORTH CORRIDOR: II. PAINTED RELIEF OF PRIEST-KING; COMPARISON WITH YOUNG PRINCE ON HAGIA TRIADA CUP AND DISCOVERY OF INTAGLIO REPRESENTING GODDESS WITH SPRINKLER AND SWORD—EMBLEMS OF SPIRITUAL AND TERRESTRIAL DOMINION
pp 774-795

66 - DOUBLE FAÇADE OF PALACE ON CENTRAL COURT—RESTORED COLUMNAR SHRINE AND STEPPED PORCH: THE ‘CENTRAL STAIRS’ AND SANCTUARY QUARTER
pp 796-826

67 - LION'S HEAD ‘RHYTONS’ OF MINOAN RHEA—DUPLICATE FROM UNDER DELPHIC SHRINE; THE MINOAN CITHARA AND KNOSSIAN ELEMENT IN CULT OF APOLLO DELPHINIOS
pp 827-844

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