Tzedakis P (4 results)

8pp, 1 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

4pp, figs, illustrations, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

10pp, 4 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2019 INSTAP large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. 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. Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Chronology Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction to the Series, by Yannis Tzedakis and Holley Martlew 1. Background and History of Excavation, by Yannis Tzedakis and Vicky Kolivaki 2. Topographical Setting, by Andrew P. Gize 3. Site Investigations of the Necropolis and Its Environs: The Search for the Town, by Eileen Chappell and Steve Allender 4. Geophysical Survey 2010: Necropolis and Town, by Peter Masters 5. Minoan Diagnostic Pottery from Field and Geophysical Surveys: 1992, 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2007, by Holley Martlew, Andrew P. Gize, and Vicky Kolivaki 6. Roman and Early Byzantine Diagnostic Pottery from Field Surveys: 2001, 2002, and 2007, by Alexandra Ariotti 7. Geological Setting, by Andrew Gize 8. Proposed Method of Tomb Construction, by Andrew Gize 9. Ano Valsamonero Iron Deposit: A Potential Metal Resource for the Late Minoan III Community, by Chloe Sherwood-Dickinson, Giles Droop, and Andrew P. Gize 10. Armenoi, Western Crete, and the Linear B Tablets from Knossos, by Louis Godart Index.…