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Consuming power: Kamares Ware in Protopalatial Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter M. Day and
David E. Wilson
Peter M. Day
Affiliation:
Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield S1 4ET, England. p.m.day@sheffield.ac.uk
David E. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. dwilson@julian.uwo.ca
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Abstract

A new study of Kamares ware, integrating stylistic and petrographic analysis, suggests that Protopalatial Knossos was a centre of ritual consumption rather than production, obtaining some of its specialized vessels for drinking and feasting ceremonies from production centres elsewhere in central Crete.

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AegeanCreteBronze AgeKnossosKamares Ware

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998, pp. 350 - 358
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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