Descript |
4 v. in 6. |
Note |
Supplemented by : Index to The palace of Minos, by Joan Evans ... with special sections classified in detail and chronologically arranged by Sir Arthur Evans. (vi, 221, [1] p. ; 26 cm.) published : London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. |
Contents |
v.1 The neolithic and early and middle Minoan ages-- v.2 pt.1 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 -- v.2 pt.2 Town-houses in Knossos of the new era and restored west palace section, with its state approach--v.3 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 advanced religion -- v.4 pt.1 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' -- v.4 pt.2 'Camp-stool' fresco--long-robed priests and beneficient 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.' |
|