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SOME UNUSUAL MINOAN CLAY NODULES I. Introductory Clay nodules, often badly damaged by the fires that baked them hard, are in themselves unexciting artifacts. Even the clay of which they are made resists provenance-analysis: visual identification is treacherous, 1 while non-destructive testing is only now possible in the most favourable circumstances. 2 Yet detailed study of nodules, their shapes and peculiarities, can yield worthwhile results. 3 While it is not yet possible to chart the evolution of nodule shapes over time, 4 a site-by-site analysis of the shapes in LM IB destruction deposits, for example, shows up clear differences between major sites. We can distinguish eleven classes of shapes (Fig. 1) used in LM IB; a typological inventory of classes used at Zakro, Ayia Triada and Chania is summarized in Table l. 5 The value of this analysis is illustrated by four nodules discovered by Professor N. Platon in the Palace Archives at Zakro in 1963. 6 When 1 Arthur Evans identified the clay of three Zakro-type nodules reputedly found at Knossos Harbour Town as of Vasiliki origin (PM II, 254-55). Two of these nodules, now in the Ashmolean Museum (Kenna, CS Κ IOS, IIS) were submitted
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- Author
- Judith Weingarten
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)