Excavations at Gournia, 2010–2012

Watrous, L. Vance; Buell, D. Matthew; McEnroe, John; Younger, John G.; Turner, Lee Ann; Kunkel, Brian S.; Glowacki, Kevin T.; Gallimore, Scott; Smith, A J; Pantou, Panagiota A.; Chapin, Anne P.; Margaritis, Evi

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“…To a large extent, the early date and/or unpublished state of the excavations of some palaces is to blame. Studies on recently found deposits from the palaces at Galatas and Gournia (Girella 2007;Rethemiotakis & Christakis 2013;Watrous et al 2015), as well as evidence for such communal gatherings from the Early Bronze Age onwards at Knossos and Phaistos (Day & Wilson 2002;Todaro 2013), can now be supplemented with the evidence from Sissi. An assemblage of 148 simple and eight elaborate cups, carefully placed within a plastered bench in the east wing, may have accompanied building activities around 1600 BC (Caloi 2018).…”

Section: The Function Of the Sissi Court Buildingmentioning

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Driessen¹

2021

Antiquity

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Section: The Function Of the Sissi Court Buildingmentioning

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Driessen¹

2021

Antiquity

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“…Two large deposits of cups, bowls, bones, and pumice filled the small space of the approximately 1 x 1 m room, one deposit dating to MM IIIA and the other to LM IB. Situated east of a kernos and baetyl on the western edge of the palace (Watrous et al 2015, 429–31), the position of the room and its depositions next to these sacred objects points to past drinking ceremonies and the ritual disposal of its equipment in a sacred space. Among the hundreds of regular-sized ceramic vessels found in the MM IIIA and LM IB deposits of Room 13, some were labelled as miniature objects.…”

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Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

Dewan

2023

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Often assumed to be ritual votives or toys for children, miniature ceramic vessels in the Bronze Age Aegean have been afforded little thorough study. Their presence at peak sanctuaries, sacred caves and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, diverse in form and context, are so common in archaeological investigations of Minoan settlements that they merit further comprehensive study. Considered alongside the abundance of small-scale Minoan material culture, including figurines, seals, miniature wall paintings, and models, miniature pottery appears to be one facet of a larger semiotic ideology – one well-versed in the language and power of the miniature. By analysing 504 miniature pots from 13 sites in central and east Crete, this paper explores the wide range of miniature vessel types used in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods and applies contextual analysis to draw out their meanings. Contextualisation and data analysis reveal two distinct categories within the corpus of miniature pots: ‘micro-miniatures’ and ‘small miniatures’. While micro-miniatures were indeed inherently cultic, small miniatures served a variety of practical functions within the world of Minoan Crete and should not be assumed to relate to ritual. To differentiate between the categories, the relationship between the miniature and its prototype, as well as its semiotic meaning are considered. By applying Peircean understandings of iconicity and indexicality to these two categories, the use and significance of Bronze Age miniature vessels are further illuminated, in ritual and beyond.

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Kavousi and the Mirabello Region

Haggis¹

2019

A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean

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Excavations at Gournia, 2010–2012

Abstract: Wilfred Laurier Universit y department of archaeolog y and c lassical studie s 75 universit y aven ue we st water loo, ontario, n2l 3c5 canada

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

Kavousi and the Mirabello Region

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