Nestor's Wine Cups: Investigating Ceramic Manufacture and Exchange in a Late Bronze Age Mycenaean State

ISBN-13: 9780860549932 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 146 str.

Galaty, Michael L.

Opis

Research report providing a petrographic and chemical analysis of a large sample of Mycenean potsherds from Pylos. The author saw a unique potential for a small bounded, relatively well studied state as Pylos to give information in a comparative framework on the organisation and origin of early state systems. Investigation of pottery industry provided a means to avoid an overreliance on historical data in order to augment and sharpen our complex largely text-based theoretical models.