Goddesses, Snake Tubes, and Plaques: Analysis of Ceramic Ritual Objects from the LM IIIC Shrine at Kavousi

Day, Peter M.; Joyner, Louise; Kilikoglou, Vassilis; Gesell, Geraldine C.

doi:10.2972/hesp.75.2.137

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“…The existence of granodioritic dykes in the western Mirabello is well documented in the archaeometric literature, as are their implications with regard to the composition of Neogene clay‐rich sediments available in the northern part of the Ierapetra Isthmus, and the use of these sediment resources for the production of buff ‘Mirabello’ pottery fabrics (Nodarou and Moody , with references). Red‐firing ‘Mirabello’ fabrics, on the other hand, might have become more common during Roman times (ibid., 94–5), although they were spotted among Minoan pottery at Kavousi and Gournia (Day, Joyner, Kilikoglou, and Gesell, , 149, figs 6c–d).…”

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Ophiolites Associated with Pottery Production in Bronze Age Crete

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This study investigates diversity among ophiolite‐bearing sediments that were exploited for pottery production in Bronze Age Crete (c.3000–1200 bc). The focus is on loose and consolidated formations of Upper Tertiary to Quaternary ages that contain some detrital products of Mesozoic ophiolitic source rocks. A literature review, geological fieldwork, sediment sampling and petrographic analysis are combined to identify the origin, the geographical distribution and the stratigraphic position of these ophiolitic sediments, and to assess regional diversity in their mineralogy and texture. The results provide insights into current archaeological problems regarding the provenance and production of ophiolite‐bearing pottery in Bronze Age Crete.

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Ophiolites Associated with Pottery Production in Bronze Age Crete

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“…Vitrification of this extent may be achieved in this kind of clay at temperatures of 900-50°C, or even somewhat above, under an oxidizing atmospheric regime. Under a reducing regime, vitrification processes occur at temperatures of no less than 50°C lower (Day et al 2006;Maniatis 2009). So, in the case considered the supposed firing temperature is between 850 and 900°C or slightly above.…”

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Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries

Nakamura¹

2022

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The purpose and content of the book are briefly introduced, covering the 18 chapters that are presented in four parts based on regions and chronology. The terminology and classification of kilns and firing techniques in East Asia are discussed in order to clarify choices for terminology in the various chapters (a unification of terms and names is provided in a glossary at the end of the book). In other words, the introduction summarizes the history of research on kiln classification in China, as well as in Korea and the Japanese archipelago, and presents a proposal to classify East Asian kilns according to a unified standard (without imposing this standard on the authors), as an attempt to create standard terminology over this wide region for future research.

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“…Here, a large flat-bottomed hollow just downslope to the southeast would fulfil this function admirably (Day 2009b; Eliopoulos 2001; 2004; Gesell, Day and Coulson 1988, 289–90; Gesell, Glowacki and Klein forthcoming; Klein and Glowacki 2009; Pendlebury et al 1937–8, 75–6; Prent 2005, 126–54, 188–200; Rutkowski 1986; Tsipopoulou 2001; 2009). Cult buildings also have concentrations of specialised equipment setting them apart from domestic cult areas, including, particularly, large wheelmade female figurines, plaques and tubular stands (Day et al 2006; Day 2009b; Gesell 1985, 47–58; Tsipopoulou 2009). This equipment was sometimes clustered in the smallest of the building's rooms, and often placed on or around a stone-built bench.…”

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Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

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Mylona

2012

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Seventy years after its first investigation, Karphi (Karfi) on Crete was the subject of a new pilot excavation in 2008. The main aim was to provide the first up-to-date detailed contextual records for the site across a representative area, thus filling in interpretative gaps left by the original extensive excavation. This paper presents and analyses these records with the aim of investigating the likely complexity of social systems at one of the largest new communities founded in Crete after the collapse of Bronze Age states c.1200 bc. Recent research has tended to focus on small villages, or on sites which later developed into poleis, meaning that crisis-period remains are poorly preserved. Occupied only between the crisis horizon of c.1200 bc and an important nucleation of Cretan communities at large ‘proto-polis’ settlements occurring in the early tenth century, the large Karphi site offers insight into the special challenges of creating large, potentially diverse new communities in crisis circumstances. It has one of the most dramatic of the new settlement locations, on steep-sided peaks 1100 m above sea level in an area which had never previously been settled. The social and economic adjustments needed here were particularly sharp and urgent, and the paper examines the structures which enabled them, using preliminary analyses of bioarchaeological data from the new project to assist reconstruction of the economy. The site has had other, highly specialised uses in its history, on which the new excavation has thrown light. The results highlight not only the resonance of this landscape in ancient consciousness, but also the ways in which such resonance could be exploited, both in the socially volatile post-collapse period and in the context of enhanced social and economic complexity as polis states started to come into being. Finally, a first set of radiocarbon dates from the new excavation is presented and assessed with regard to the dating of the Cretan Bronze to Iron Age transition and its wider ramifications.

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Goddesses, Snake Tubes, and Plaques: Analysis of Ceramic Ritual Objects from the LM IIIC Shrine at Kavousi

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Ophiolites Associated with Pottery Production in Bronze Age Crete

Ophiolites Associated with Pottery Production in Bronze Age Crete

Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries

Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

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