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VI. History of the City and Times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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The period to which the occupation of Karphi belongs is clearly the dark age which follows the end of the Bronze Age. This period is often known indiscriminately as the Sub-Minoan or as the Proto-Geometric Period, that term being used which seems to fit best the results at the particular site to which it is applied. Neither term, however, is satisfactory when applied to the period as a whole.
Sub-Minoan pottery is clearly contemporary with Proto-Geometric. It would be absurd to apply the term Proto-Geometric to a city like Karphi, where only one or two sherds of the true Proto-Geometric style have appeared. On the other hand, the term Sub-Minoan takes no account of the very considerable non-Minoan elements which have crept into the architecture and other manifestations of culture. In the same way, it would be absurd to apply the term Sub-Minoan to the Early Iron Age cemeteries of Knossos. Here the term Proto-Geometric is more excusable, though it still takes no account of the many Minoan features which survived there.
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page 135 note 1 Cf. almost exactly the same difficulty at Tell el-Amarna City of Akhenaten II 3Google Scholar.
page 135 note 2 Again cf. Tell el-Amarna, where the Central City, containing the official buildings, was the first section set in hand. Cf. the forthcoming City of Akhenaten III.
page 136 note 1 We take the generally accepted dates for this period, cf. Archaeology of Crete p. 313.
page 136 note 2 Examples of the use of objects of durable materials long after they were made are given in Archaeology of Crete pp. 54 and 227. Many houses all over Greece and the Islands use vases or lamps which have been found in the owners' fields.
page 137 note 1 Many of the figurines from the ‘Peak Sanctuary’ would have inclined us to believe that, as on Juktas and Petsophas, such a sanctuary had existed here from Middle Minoan I times had a single sherd earlier than the present period been found with them.
page 138 note 1 JHS. LIX p. 203Google Scholar.
page 138 note 2 Cf. Dhamania, . Ἀ χ. Δελτ II p. 171Google Scholar.
page 138 note 3 Trans. Penn. Univ. II 113, 129Google Scholar. But should this now be dated to the Intermediate Period ? cf. above p. 111.
page 138 note 4 Whence came the local development of a free-standing tomb we do not know. It is not found on neighbouring sites such as Erganos.
page 138 note 5 But cf. above p. 65, n. 2.
page 138 note 6 In particular the characteristic ‘fringed style’.
page 140 note 1 This is a more detailed restatement of views held from the results of the first year's excavations and expressed in Papers presented to J. L. Myres BSA XXXVII pp. 194 ff. p. 197Google Scholar.
page 140 note 2 We have suggested, ibid. p. 197, that Idomeneus himself may have been a Minoan prince confirmed in his kingship by the Great King of Achaia.
page 140 note 3 Contrast however their own valuation!
