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Author Muñoz Sogas, Judith

Title Thirsty Seafarers at Temple B of Kommos Commercial Districts and the Role of Crete in Phoenician Trading Networks in the Aegean
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (170 p.)
Contents Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 1.1. Map of the main Aegean sites mentioned throughout the book. -- Figure 1.2. Map of Eastern Mediterranean winds in the summer (Safadi 2016). -- Figure 1.3. Map of Crete detailing the main sites subject to study (by the author). -- Figure 1.4. Kommos, bay showing Papadóplaka (right) and the archaeological settlement (left). -- Figure 1.5. Kommos, general view of the site (by the author). -- Figure 1.6. Kommos, general site plan (Shaw 2000: Fig. 1.6). -- Figure 1.7. Kommos, Southern Area Period Plan (Shaw 2006)
Figure 2.13. Phoenician storage and transport jars from Temple B (by the author). -- Figure 2.14. Phoenician pottery from Temple B (by the author). -- Figure 2.15. Local pottery from Building Q (by the author). -- Figure 2.16. Phoenician pottery from Building Q (by the author). -- Figure 2.17. Phoenician pottery from Building P (by the author). -- Figure 2.18. East Greek pottery from Building P (by the author). -- Figure 2.19. Phoenician pottery from Building F (by the author). -- Figure 2.20. Commercial inscriptions from Building Q and Temple B (by the author)
Figure 3.1. Map of Crete showing the sites analysed in this chapter. -- Figure 3.2. View of Heraklion from the East with the Bronze Age Palace of Knossos on the left, Iron Age Fortetsa in the centre, and Agios Yoannis, the Tekke area and Atsalenio to the right. -- Figure 3.3. Knossos, general site plan (Antoniadis 2020: Map 1). -- Figure 3.4. Roman tombs at the Venizeleion Hospital (by the author). -- Figure 3.5. Cippus from Venizeleion Hospital (Kourou and Grammatikaki 1998: Fig. 18.1). -- Figure 3.6. Cippus TT91 S6 from Tyre (Kourou and Grammatikaki 1998: Fig. 19.3)
Summary The island of Crete was an important place for cultural and economic exchanges between Greeks and Near Easterners in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. This book aims to understand the Phoenician presence and trade in Aegean temples, as well as how Crete shaped its role within the context of Mediterranean trade routes from East to West
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Figure 3.7. Cippus from Atsalenio (Kourou 2012: Fig. 6a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Commerce -- History -- To 500.
Trade routes -- Mediterranean Sea
Commerce
Trade routes
SUBJECT Kommos Site (Greece) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072869
Crete (Greece) -- Commerce -- History
Subject Greece -- Crete
Greece -- Kommos Site
Mediterranean Sea
Temple complex at Kommos.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781803273235
1803273232