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Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi: Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers

by: Christakis, K.S.

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Category: Prehistory Monographs
Code: 1735
ISBN-13: 9781931534154
ISBN-10: 1931534152
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Publication Date: 2005
Publication Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 111
Book Condition: New
Comments: Prehistory monographs, 18 / 28 Plates, 45 Figures / xvi, 111 p., [98] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

 The pithos is one of the most distinctive utilitarian forms of the Cretan Bronze Age ceramic repertoire. Because of its use as a storage container, a pithos is the foremost parameter for the evaluation of the economic organization of palatial and domestic sectors of Cretan Bronze Age society. The pithoi as pottery and their significance for the understanding of the Cretan Bronze Age economy has been the focus of a research project carried out from 1989 to 1999.


This book is not a pithos handbook in the narrow sense, although the study offers a typological division of the data with comments on chronology and spatial distribution. It integrates stylistic considerations with broad fabric and technological observations in order to understand the production and consumption of pithoi.

Contents: Introduction; 1. A Formal Typology for Pithoi; 2. Decorative Patterns and Style; 3. The Use of Pithoi; 4. Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Pithoi.

214p, 1 tb with 122 forms, 45 b/w figs, 28 b/w pls
(Prehistory Monographs 18, INSTAP Academic Press, 2005) 

ISBN-10: 1-931534-15-2
 
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Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi: Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers

by: Christakis, K.S.

  • ISBN-13: 9781931534154
  • ISBN-03: 1931534152
  • INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005

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