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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: Volume I: Introduction and Background

The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: Volume I: Introduction and Background

Tzedakis, Yannis
Martlew, Holley
Arnott, Robert

Hardcover

Series: Prehistory Monographs, Book 60

ArchaeologyAncient History General

ISBN10: 1931534985
ISBN13: 9781931534987
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Published: Dec 31 2018
Pages: 284
Weight: 2.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. To date two hundred and thirty-two chamber tombs have been excavated. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. It was very rich in finds, which include more than 800 decorated vases, significant bronzes, painted larnakes, a boar's tooth helmet and a stirrup jar with a Linear B inscription, and there is evidence for the remains of up to a thousand individuals. The volume presents the background and history of the site, describes and illustrates the most important finds. Field surveys and a geophysical survey were carried out with the goal of discovering the wealthy town which built the necropolis, and this was accomplished. Catalogues of the Minoan finds, and also the oft-overlooked Roman and Byzantine ones, from the surveys are included. Chapters on the topographical and the geological settings of the necropolis are presented, as well as a proposed method for tomb construction, a potential metal resource, and a chapter which discusses Armenoi, Western Crete and the Linear B tablets from Knossos.

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