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" Overseas Connections of Knossos and Crete in the Archaic and Classical Periods: "
Paizi, Eirini
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1106390
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TLpq2387954556
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Paizi, Eirini
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Overseas Connections of Knossos and Crete in the Archaic and Classical Periods:\ Paizi, Eirini
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University of Cincinnati
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2019
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2019
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M.A.
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203
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For Crete, the Early Iron Age (12th–7th centuries B.C.) was an era of great prosperity and intense contacts with the Aegean and the Near East. However, in the periods that follow, the 6th–5th centuries B.C., signs of overseas activity and even human occupation diminish sharply on the island. The abrupt change from the rich material culture of the Early Iron Age to the material indigence of the Archaic and Classical periods has attracted wide-ranging attention in the scholarship. According to the scholarly consensus, Crete fell into material and cultural decline after the collapse of Phoenician trade networks around 600–575 B.C., which cut her off from her contacts with the outside world. Most discussions of this decline have focused on the major site of Knossos, which is taken to present an extreme manifestation of the phenomenon. Indeed, many scholars assume a complete absence of archaeological finds at the site between 600/ 590 B.C. and 525 B.C. and some argue for a decline of overseas connections at the city around 475–425 B.C., which they explain with a hypothesized Athenian interference in the trade networks of the Aegean. My thesis revisits these ideas in the light of previously unpublished imported pottery from the area of the Unexplored Mansion, a settlement site located northwest of the Minoan Palace of Knossos. I identify a number of imported fragments of sympotic, perfume, and cosmetic vessels from the Aegean (Attica, Corinth, Laconia) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus) which date from the purported chronological “lacunae” and indicate that these may be more apparent than real. This thesis further discusses isolated finds from other sites within the Knossos valley which date to the periods in question. I suggest that important fragments have often remained unpublished and occasionally they have been assigned an incorrect date, which has helped establish and maintain the traditional “gaps.” This situation has had a negative impact on our understanding of Crete in the Archaic and Classical periods, which can be remedied by new studies of old material and the questioning of old assumptions.
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Archaeology
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European studies
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