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Toumba tou Skourou : a Bronze Age potters' quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus

Title: Toumba tou Skourou : a Bronze Age potters' quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus / by Emily D.T. Vermeule and Florence Z. Wolsky.
Author: Vermeule, Emily.
Publication: [Boston, Mass.] : Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cyprus Expedition ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1990.

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xxxvii, 442 pages, 76 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

This sumptuous publication of the archaeological excavation in northwest Cyprus (1971–1973) is sponsored by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The authors present the site, its objects, and its chronological and historical significance against the wider background of Cypriote archaeology, casting new light on the problems of Cypriote pottery classification and the links between Cyprus and the Aegean world, especially Crete. Descriptions of the Mound and Tombs and the catalogues of their contents are supplemented by essays on individual classes of objects.The book is lavishly illustrated with detailed diagrams and nearly 2,000 photographs and drawings to help the reader understand this active industrial area and its changes through successive generations from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age. An appendix of technical analyses, an inventory of the finds, a list of published references to the excavation, and a bibliography complete the documentation.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Background -- 2. Site of Toumba Tou Skourou -- 3. Excavated Site: an Overview -- 4. The Mound -- 5. The Basin Building -- 6. Well 1 and the area east of the Basin Building -- 7. The Ramp -- 8. Green Clay Heaps by the west Face of the Mound -- 9. Fill and the Underlying Walls -- 10. West End and House A -- 11. House B -- 12. House C -- 13. The "Kiln" and House D -- 14. Inventoried Finds without Persuasive Contexts -- 15. Iron Age Levels -- 16. The Tombs -- 17. Classes of Finds Other than Pottery -- 18. The Pottery -- 19. Human and Animal Bones -- 20. Relative an Absolute Chronology -- 21. Summary and Conculsions -- Appendix 1. Technical Analysis -- Inventory of Finds.

ISBN

0674896351
9780674896352

LCCN

90005127

OCLC

ocm22242957
22242957
SCSB-1910724

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Princeton University Library