CLARCH 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urbanism, Drinking Horn, Minoan Pottery
7 Oct 2016
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Rock crystal rhyton (drinking horn): mmiii to lmi. Bulls head rhyton, knossos, steatite, gold and marble: mmiii to lmi. Phaistos disc: mmiii to lmi (early writing system!/individuality) 1898 greek war of independence (from ottoman empire)-notebooks destroyed. Occupied continuously since neolithic period even then, abnormally large. New palace in use for 2-3 centuries during lmi to lmii. Rear of west side used for storage (paved courtyard with raised walkways) Light wells with tapering columns (narrower at bottom, wider at top) Theatral/viewing area (open space for public events) to nw of palace. Hall of the double axes (ideological in minoan context) Size: covered up to 75 hectares (150 football fields) As you move farther away from palace, status decreases and settlements spread out. Scale of the palace (# of people living and working there) Amount of agricultural storage-evidence of redistributive economy (produce came into the palace to be divided and sent out again to the surrounding area.
