Re-evaluation of Contacts between Cyprus and Crete from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
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Publication date: 2020
ELECTRUM, 2020, Volume 27, pp. 11 - 32
https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.20.001.12791Authors
Re-evaluation of Contacts between Cyprus and Crete from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
This article argues that it is possible to distinguish certain stages of development of the contact between Cyprus and Crete, from Early Bronze Age up to the LBA/EIA transition period. To thoroughly do that, areas in which the connections are most clearly expressed: written sources, pottery, copper trade and cult practice influences are discussed. Possible sea routes between two islands, direct and as a part of a major route between Aegean, Levant and Egypt are described. Discussed written sources include possible place-names connected with Cyprus/Alasia in linear scripts and usage of the so-called ‘Cypro-Minoan’writing. Examples of pots and sherds both Cypriot found in Crete and Cretan found in Cyprus are examined and possible copper trade (including lead isotope analysis) is considered. Further, alleged Minoan cult practice influences are thoroughly discussed. Finally all the above are chronologically reviewed and a course of development of contacts between Crete and Cyprus is proposed.
* This paper includes research done as a part of author’s PhD in the Trinity College Dublin, supervised byDr Christine Morris, funded by the Irish Research Council. Author would also like to thank Dr Laerke Rechtfor many valuable comments and suggestions and Mariusz Wisniewski for help with illustrations.
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