The palace of Minos

Macmillan and Co

1921–1935

6 vol.

Vol. I. The neolithic and early and middle Minoan ages.; Vol. II pt. I. Fresh lights on origins and external relations+ the restoration in town and palace after seismic catastrophe towards close of M. M. III, and the beginnings of the new era. pt. II. Town-houses in Knossos of the new era and restored west palace section, with its state approach.--Vol. III.The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the palace* the most brilliant records of Minoan art and the evidences of an advance religion.--Vol. IV. pt. I. Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the middle Minoan phase* chryselephantine 'lady of sports', 'snake room' and full story of the cult: late Minoan ceramic evolution and 'palace style'. pt. II. 'Camp-stool' fresco--long-robed priests and beneficent genii; chryselephantine boy-god and ritual hair-offering; intaglio types, M. M. III-L. M. II; late hoards of sealings; deposits of inscribed tablets and the palace stores; linear script B and its mainland extension; closing palatial phase--'room of throne'--and final catastrophe with epilogue on the discovery of 'ring of Minos' and 'temple tomb'.

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