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New pottery from the Psychro Cave and its implications for Minoan Crete
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Recently discovered pottery from David Hogarth's 1899 excavation in the Psychro Cave is published in this study. The great majority of these vases can, on the basis of their fabric and decoration, be traced to Malia, Knossos and the Lasithi Plain. During the MM I-LM I A period most of the fine ware pottery dedicated at the Psychro came from Malia. The monumental size of the sanctuary and the large number (and the elite character) of the votives indicates that during MM I B-LM I A Psychro was the main extra-urban sanctuary for the polity centred at Malia. During LM I B-III A1/2 virtually all of the decorated vases from Psychro are Knossian. This change suggests that Mycenaean Knossos assumed control of the sanctuary during this time, and that some of these vases are those referred to in the Linear B tablet from Knossos KN. Fp 1 that lists dedications of oil sent to Dictaean Zeus.
Title: New pottery from the Psychro Cave and its implications for Minoan Crete
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Recently discovered pottery from David Hogarth's 1899 excavation in the Psychro Cave is published in this study.
The great majority of these vases can, on the basis of their fabric and decoration, be traced to Malia, Knossos and the Lasithi Plain.
During the MM I-LM I A period most of the fine ware pottery dedicated at the Psychro came from Malia.
The monumental size of the sanctuary and the large number (and the elite character) of the votives indicates that during MM I B-LM I A Psychro was the main extra-urban sanctuary for the polity centred at Malia.
During LM I B-III A1/2 virtually all of the decorated vases from Psychro are Knossian.
This change suggests that Mycenaean Knossos assumed control of the sanctuary during this time, and that some of these vases are those referred to in the Linear B tablet from Knossos KN.
Fp 1 that lists dedications of oil sent to Dictaean Zeus.
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