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The Tombs of Mesara : A Study of Funerary Architecture and Ritual in Southern Crete, 2800-1700 B.C.

by: Branigan, K.

Price: 115,00 EURO

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 3010
ISBN-13: 9780715605226 / 978-0-7156-0522-6
ISBN-10: 0715605224 / 0-7156-0522-4
Publisher: Duckworth
Publication Date: 1970
Publication Place: London
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 189
Book Condition: As New
Comments: Out of Print

 
The tombs of Mesara : a study of funerary architecture and ritual in Southern Crete, 2800-1700 B.C

Author:Keith Branigan

Summary:"Tholos Tombs For centuries the Minoans used Tholos Tombs and sacred caves, along with pithoi and larnakes for burial of their dead. Many Tholos Tombs have been found in Crete dating back to prepalatial times. They were usually round in shape with one short entrance, although tholos tombs rectangular in shape were not unusual, like the ones found in Palekastro, and some were cut into hill sides, while most were free-standing structures. What has survived to date consists of the foundations or the lower part of the walls, so it is difficult to gauge their height or their shape at the top. It is believed however that many had a flat wood framed roof. The largest tholos tomb is found in Platanos and measures about 13 meters in diameter. The tholos tombs were used extensively during the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods (2600-1700 BC), and many were continuously used until historic times

 

xv, 189 pages, 8 plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm


Contents:
Preface
the tombs discovered
The monuments of a millennium
The vaulted tombs of Mesara?
Grave-goods
The burial of the dead
Death and the dead
The cemetery and society
The Minoan Tholos
its origins and history
Appendix 1: Structural details of forty-two tholoi
Appendix 2: The finds made in forty-two tholoi
Appendix 3: The chronology of twenty-nine tholoi
Appendix 4: Catalogue of Early and Middle Bronze Age build circular chamber tombs of Mesara type

 
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The Tombs of Mesara : A Study of Funerary Architecture and Ritual in Southern Crete, 2800-1700 B.C.

by: Branigan, K.

  • ISBN-13: 9780715605226 / 978-0-7156-0522-6
  • ISBN-03: 0715605224 / 0-7156-0522-4
  • Duckworth, London, 1970

Price: 115,00 EURO

(in stock)