Marble protocycladic female figurine, placed diagonally at the bottom of the shrine (Photo Source: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Cyclades Ephorate)
Posted on 10/15/2018 11:43:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Situated in the building known as 'House of Desks' -- near the spot where the exquisite golden ibex was found in 1999 -- the finds include a marble protocycladic female figurine, two small marble protocycladic collared jars, a marble vial and an alabaster vase, which were found inside clay chests of rectangular shape.
According to a culture ministry statement, the finds were made under rubble inside a large and probably public building that is south of Xeste 3, near where the golden ibex now on display at the Museum of Prehistoric Thira was also found in a clay chest beside a pile of animal horns.
"Following the gradual revealing and cleaning of the small chest in the northwest corner of the space, a marble protocycladic female figure was found placed diagonally along the bottom of the vessel. From the group of chests in the southeast corner of the space, three were uncovered, of which the two smallest were filled with egg-shaped masses of clay while the largest contained two small marble protocycladic collared jars, placed upside down, a marble vial and an alabaster vase," the announcement noted.
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Marble protocycladic female figurine, placed diagonally at the bottom of the shrine (Photo Source: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Cyclades Ephorate)
It's one of *those* topics, and not just because it's Thera.
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The LBA is termed Late Cycladic, subdivided as usual into I, II, and III, of which I is by far the best understood by virtue of the fact that the town of Akrotiri on Thera belongs to this phase. [For a published chart tabulating all phases of the Cycladic Bronze Age presently recognized, toether with the phases of the Cretan and Mainland Greek Bronze Age with which they are contemporary, see J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 301. For recent general treatments, see R. L. N. Barber, The Cyclades in the Bronze Age (Iowa City 1987) and S. W. Manning, "The Emergence of Divergence: Development and Decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades," in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1994) 221-270.]
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean: Chronology and Terminology Trustees of Dartmouth College [probably a dead link]
Right, the link is not working for me.
Visited that site in 2003. A stunning place, a bronze age Pompeii. Two story houses immaculately preserved. What struck me most is how similar it felt to any village you’d find around the European Mediterranean up to the middle of the 20th century.
That figurene looks an awful lot like ‘Oscar’... or Groot.
The text I have saved has been superseded by a new edition, this is probably the new link:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=67
Thanks, this one works.
I should get ambitious and archive the new version as well. Here's a clip from the old version that I've used a number of times, in a number of forums, over the past 20 years or so. Whoops, make that 18 years or so.
One point I'm trying to make here is that the academics who promote the historicity of the huge volcanic eruption seize on anything and everything that seems to help, then when shown to be incorrect, retreat to another fallback position and pick up whatever else is around. It's not a scholarly approach, and reminds me mostly of the global warming demagogues, who keep retreating from one unsupported position to another, as the data continues to build showing that climate change is natural, that the oceans are not warming at depth, that sealevel isn't rising, etc.Akrotiri on Thera, the Santorini Volcano and the Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in the Central Aegean Islandsmost of the pumice from the eruption is found to the southeast of Santorini. The Greek Mainland and western Crete would have been altogether unaffected by the ash fall, but eastern Crete would have been covered by a maximum of ten, and more probably by between one and five, centimeters of fine pumice. Archaeologists eager to establish a correlation between the Theran eruption and the collapse of Neopalatial Crete feel that such a quantity of ash would have had a disastrous effect on agriculture in eastern Crete. However, others point out that such a relatively thin layer of pumice would have been eroded away by wind and rain within a year or two and would in fact enhance rather than detract from the fertility of the soil. A layer of Theran ash was identified in the late 1980's in some lake sediments in western Anatolia, indicating that the windborne dispersal of this ash had a much more northern and eastern distribution than previously suspected... Doumas in fact claimed that the collapse of the magma chamber and hence the appearance of the tidal wave was an event which postdated the volcanic eruption itself by a decade or more... More recently, the vulcanologists have claimed that the Santorini caldera formed quite gradually and that a tidal wave, if indeed there was one at all, would not have been on anything like the scale envisaged by Marinatos and other proponents of the link between the Theran volcano and the sudden decline of Neopalatial Crete... the simple facts are that the great earthquake which badly damaged Akrotiri is to be dated quite early in LM IA (either ca. 1650 or ca. 1560 B.C.?), that the entire town was buried in meters of volcanic ash still within the LM IA period (ca. 1625 or ca. 1550/1540 B.C.?), and that the wave of destructions (most of them including fires) which defines the end of the Neopalatial period on Crete and to which the palaces at Mallia, Phaistos, and Zakro all fell victim cannot be dated earlier than LM IB (ca. 1480/1470 B.C.?). Hood [TAW I (1978) 681-690] claims that clear evidence of the earthquake which so severely damaged Akrotiri before the town was buried is to be found at several sites on Crete where it is clearly dated to LM IA. More importantly, tephra from the later eruption of the Theran volcano has been found within the past decade in LM IA contexts on Rhodes (at Trianda) and Melos (at Phylakopi) as well as on Crete itself, ample confirmation that the eruption preceded the LM IB destruction horizon on Crete by a significant amount of time. Thus no direct correlation can be established between the Santorini volcano and the collapse of Neopalatial Minoan civilization.
Trustees of Dartmouth College
Bronze Age Aegean chap 17
Revised: Friday, March 18, 2000
for later:
New analysis on problems between archaeology and pharaonic chronology, based on radiocarbon dating
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | June 17, 2010 | Unknown
Posted on 6/17/2010 4:57:51 PM by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2536818/posts
Situated in the building known as ‘House of Desks’
Ancient Law Offices no doubt.
Second oldest profession.
;^) It could have been a school.
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