Imports and Immigrants

Hoffman, Gail L.

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“…The first is a bronze openwork stand of Cypriot type (Hutchinson and Boardman 1954, 223, 227, nos. 56–8, 60–1, 66; Boardman 1967, 69–70; Hoffman 1997, 118, footnote 26). Although similar stands have been recorded in major Cretan and Greek sanctuaries, only one comes from another Cretan tomb (Hoffman 1997, 118; Matthäus 1998, 132).…”

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“…56–8, 60–1, 66; Boardman 1967, 69–70; Hoffman 1997, 118, footnote 26). Although similar stands have been recorded in major Cretan and Greek sanctuaries, only one comes from another Cretan tomb (Hoffman 1997, 118; Matthäus 1998, 132). This is an eleventh century Knossian tomb of amazing wealth, particularly in gold (KNC 200–202).…”

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“…In recent years, Boardman's interpretation was criticized at length by Hoffman (Hoffman 1997, 196–245). She agreed that the jewellery had been made in Crete, but demonstrated that the origins of the influence were indeterminate.…”

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“…The spectacular, as well as unusual, find of Knossos Tekke (also spelled Teke: Hoffman 1997, 191, footnote 1) tomb 2 has attracted much attention in Aegean Iron Age scholarship. It is regularly referred to in discussions on the reappearance of elaborate gold jewellery in the Aegean, it has widely been taken as evidence for the presence of immigrants from the Near East in Iron Age Knossos, and it figures largely in discussions of the Orientalizing phenomenon.…”

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“…107 (page 237), 169 (page 254): although Oriental influences are identifiable in the technique of some slightly earlier necklaces from Athens and Euboea, the Tekke necklace, which dates to the end of the ninth century, displays three technical innovations for the Aegean, namely inlaid stones, cord‐chains and tiny pendants. On the techniques and the question of their survival through the Early Iron Age see Hoffman 1997, 215–17. The reintroduction of at least some of the goldsmith's techniques in the Aegean is lately dissociated from the arrival of Oriental masters (Laffineur 1998; Ogden 1998).…”

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Wealth and Status in Iron Age Knossos

Kotsonas

2006

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary. Knossos Tekke tomb 2 is one of the richest tombs in the Iron Age Aegean, renowned for its deposits of gold. The tomb is widely attributed to a family of goldsmiths, who migrated to Knossos from the Near East. This article, however, questions this attribution. An alternative interpretation is pursued through surveys of the distribution of some luxury materials, amply represented in the Tekke tomb, in all known Knossian tombs. By setting the Tekke find against the large corpus of Knossian burial material, I identify the Tekke occupants as members of a local élite. This group is shown to have had privileged access to the products of a goldsmith's workshop, as well as to the sources of some lavish, mostly imported, raw materials, and to have regulated their distribution within Knossian society during the eighth century. The means through which the Tekke élite claimed and defended their wealth and status are assessed and their possible Late Bronze Age pedigree is conjectured.

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