Название: Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period
Автор: Ellen Adams
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110719752X
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 360
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis.