Early Cyprus : crossroads of the Mediterranean / Vassos Karageorghis
2002, First Edition. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #374343
ISBN: 0892366796
Physical description; 228 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-224) and index. Contents; The Late Bronze Age -- I. The Late Cypriote I Period (circa 1600-1450 B.C.) -- Cyprus between the Aegean and the Near East -- Relations with Egypt -- Relations with Minoan Crete -- The Cypro-Minoan Script -- Internal Unrest -- Fortresses -- Economic Growth and Development -- Domestic and Funerary Architecture -- II. The Late Cypriote II Period (circa 1450-1200 B.C.) -- External Relations -- The Amarna Letters -- The Uluburun Shipwreck -- Relations with Anatolia -- Relations with the Central Mediterranean -- The Age of Prosperity: Evidence from the Tombs -- Mycenaean and Minoan Pottery Found in Cyprus -- Art of the Fourteenth-Thirteenth Centuries B.C. -- Architecture -- III. The Late Cypriote IIC Period (circa 1320-1200 B.C.) -- The Major Settlements -- Shipwrecks -- The Evidence of the Tablets -- IV. The Late Cypriote IIIA Period (circa 1200-1100 B.C.) -- The "Sea Peoples" in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Turmoil and Changes in Cyprus -- Fortified Settlements in the Aegean -- Cultural Changes in Cyprus -- V. From the Late Cypriote IIIB to the End of the Cypro-Geometric I Period (1100-950/900 B.C.) -- The Creation of Independent Kingdoms -- Cultural Changes -- The Iron Age -- I. The Cypro-Geometric II-III Periods (950/900-750 B.C.) -- Phoenician Settlement in Cyprus -- II. The Cypro-Archaic I Period (750-600 B.C.) -- The Assyrian "Rule" -- The Royal Tombs of Salamis -- The "Cypro-Phoenician" Bowls -- Vase Painting -- Sculpture -- The Sanctuaries -- Funerary Architecture -- The Sixth Century B.C. -- The Cypro-Archaic II Period (circa 600-480 B.C.) -- Egyptian and Greek Influences -- The "Amathus Style" Pottery -- Sculpture -- The Sanctuaries -- Seals -- Persian Rule -- Epilogue. Subjects; Antiquities. Bronze age Cyprus. Art, Cypriot. Cypriote ART & Anqiquities. Cyprus - Prehistory. Cyprus Antiquities. Cyprus History. Iron age Cyprus. Cyprus Antiquities. Cyprus History. Cyprus. Cyprus Antiquities. Cyprus History. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
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