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Building a Minoan Larnax —Techniques and Gestures. Preliminary Analysis

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This paper investigates the fashioning stage of the Cretan larnakes’ chaîne opératoire. Larnakes were clay sarcophagi, used on Crete from the Early to the Late Bronze Age to inhume the dead. This funerary custom spread over time on Crete, reaching a peak at the end of the period, when larnakes were used across almost the whole island. Due to their significant duration of use and distribution, larnakes are considered fully part of the Minoan funerary landscape and have been, for this reason, abundantly investigated. However, questions regarding their production have always been put to one side and a specific study of their context of production is missing. To fill this lacuna, this paper examines the larnakes’ manufacturing process by reconstructing the techniques and gestures employed by Minoan potters during the fashioning stage. It especially focuses on Late Bronze Age chest and bathtub larnakes, which are better documented.
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hal-03853779 , version 1 (09-12-2022)

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Sarah Georgel-Debedde. Building a Minoan Larnax —Techniques and Gestures. Preliminary Analysis. Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology, Brepols Publishers, pp.69-84, 2022, ⟨10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.128953⟩. ⟨hal-03853779⟩
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