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Gold pendant

Χ-Α433
Metal (Gold)
Intact
Length: 2.4 cm.
Knossos
Isopata, Tomb 1A
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan ΙΙΙΑ1- ΙΙΙΑ2 early period:
1400-1350 BC:
Gallery:
X
Case:
110
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC) - Final Palatial period (1450-1300 BC).The cemeteries
The cemeteries of Knossos
Description
Gold fist-shaped pendant. It is made of a tiny, fine piece of gold sheet beaten over a core (repouss?). The edge is decorated with granulation, while the fingers are also conventionally indicated in the same way. The pendant was discovered in the rock-cut Chamber Tomb 1A of the cemetery of Isopata in Knossos, which was found looted.
Bibliography:
Evans, A. The Tomb of Double Axes and associated groups, and Pillar Rooms and ritual vessels of the "Little Palace" at Knossos. Archaeologia 65. London, 1914, 6, fig. 10:d. Preston, L. “The Isopata Cemetery at Knossos”. The Annual of the British School at Athens 102 (2007): 288. Alberti, L. “The Late Minoan II-IIIA1 warrior graves at Knossos: the burial assemblages.” In G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, A. Vasilakis (eds), Knossos: Palace, City, State, BSA Studies 12, London, 2004, 127-136. Preston, L. “Final Palatial Knossos and Post-palatial Crete: a mortuary perspective on political dynamics.” In G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds), Knossos: Palace, City, State, BSA Studies 12, London, 2004, 137-145.
Author:
G. F.


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