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Chapter 17 - Minoan Pottery

from Part III - Aegean Art in the Cretan First 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

The pottery of middle minoan (MM) IA is related in various ways to earlier traditions; from a technical standpoint, it is the last period in which all pots are still made only by hand. But there are new shapes (Betancourt 1985, 71–7). The teapots with long necks of Early Minoan (EM) III disappear; the range of amphoras, cups (globular, conical, or cylindrical), pouring vessels (bridge-spouted or beaked), and goblets expands. One of the typical shapes of this period is the conical goblet, either footed (eggcup) or footless, common in the area around Knossos (Momigliano 2007, 94–103).

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 113 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Betancourt, 1985: Betancourt, P., The History of Minoan Pottery, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar
Macdonald, and Knappett, 2007: Macdonald, C. F., Knappett, C., Knossos: Protopalatial Deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-West Houses, London.Google Scholar
MacGillivray, 1998: MacGillivray, J. A., Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period, London.Google Scholar
Momigliano, 2007: Momigliano, N. ed., Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan), London.Google Scholar
Papagiannopoulou, 1991: Papagiannopoulou, A., The Influence of Middle Minoan Pottery on the Cyclades, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Walberg, 1976: Walberg, G., Kamares. A Study of the Character of Palatial Middle Minoan Pottery, Uppsala (2nd rev. ed. 1987, Gothenburg).Google Scholar
Walberg, 1978: Walberg, G., The Kamares Style: Overall Effects, Uppsala.Google Scholar
Walberg, 1983: Walberg, G., Provincial Middle Minoan Pottery, Mainz.Google Scholar
Zoïs, 1968: Zoïs, A., Der Kamares-Stil, Werden und Wesen. Dissertation, Tübingen.Google Scholar

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