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Lesson 12.4: Individual Palaces

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, “Are We Approaching the Minoan Palace of Khania?,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 157-166.

M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, “New Discoveries at Khania in Western Crete,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 52-56.

M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki (ed.), Khania (Kydonia). A Tour to Sites of Ancient Memory (Chania 2010).

I. Beyer, “Der Palasttempel von Phaistos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 213-225.

F. Blakolmer, “The Excavations of Phaistos in German Archaeological Literature," in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 89-118.

A. Boskamp, “The West Magazines VI to XII of the Bronze Age Palace at Knossos," BSA 92(1997) 25-49.

I. Bradfer, S. Müller, R. Laffineur, J.-N. Anslijn, and M. Schmid, “Malia,” BCH 127(2003) 452-479.

F. M. Carinci, “La Casa a Sud della Rampa e il Medio Minoico III a Festòs,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 203-241.

F. Carinci and V. La Rosa, “A New Middle Minoan IIIA Ceremonial Building and the So-called ‘New Era’ at Phaistos,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 107-121.

R. Castleden, The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos (New York 1990).

F. Chapouthier et al., Fouilles exécutées à Mallia I: Exploration du palais [Études Crétoises I] (Paris 1926).

F. Chapouthier and R. Joly, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia II: Exploration du palais (1925-1926) [Études Crétoises IV] (Paris 1936).

F. Chapouthier and P. Demargne, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia III : Exploration du palais, bordures orientale et septentrionale (1927, 1928, 1931, 1932) [Études Crétoises VI] (Paris 1942).

F. Chapouthier and P. Demargne, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia IV: Exploration du palais, bordures méridionale et recherches complémentaires (1929-1935 et 1946-1960) [Études Crétoises XII] (Paris 1962).

F. Chevallier et al., Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Sondages au sud-ouest du Palais (1968) [Études Crétoises XX] (Paris 1975).

K. Christakis, “Petras, Siteia: Political, Economic, and Ideological Trajectories of a Polity,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 205-220.

K. Christakis, “The Emergence of a Metropolis: The Excavations of the British School at Athens in the Valley of Knossos,” in N. C. Stampolidis, E. Papadopoulou, I. G. Lourentzatou, and I. D. Fappas (eds.), Crete: Emerging Cities: Aptera – Eleutherna – Knossos (Athens 2019) 196-232.

S. Chryssoulaki and N. Platon, “Relations between the Town and Palace of Zakro,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 77-84.

P. Darcque, “Couches de destruction et remblais de l’âge du Bronze à Malia (Crète),” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 59-74.

K. Devitt, Knossos Revisited. An Architectural Analysis of the Palace at Knossos (Ph.D. dissertation, Saint Louis University 1982).

M. Devolder, “The Protopalatial State of the Western Magazines of the Palace at Malia (Crete),” OJA 35(2016) 141-159.

M. Devolder, “L’assise de nivellement en calcaire de la façade ouest protopalatiale du palais de Malia,” BCH 141:2(2017) 1-38.

M. Devolder and M. Lorenzon, “Minoan Master Builders? A Diachronic Study of Mudbrick Architecture in the Bronze Age Palace at Malia (Crete),” BCH 143:1(2019) 63-123.

Y. Dewolf, F. Postel, and H. van Effenterre, “Géographique préhistorique de la region de Mallia,” Études Crétoises 13(1963) 28-53.

E. Dimou, A. Schmitt, and O. Pelon, “Recherches sur les matériaux lithiques utilizés dans la construction
du palais de Malia: Étude géologique,” BCH 124:2(2000) 435-457.

C. G. Doumas, “The Excavation of Phaistos in the Greek Archaeological Literature,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 51-57.

J. Driessen, An Early Destruction in the Mycenaean Palace at Knossos: A New Interpretation of the Excavation Field-Notes of the South-West Area of the West Wing [Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia, Monographiae 2] (Leuven 1990).

J. Driessen and A. Farnoux, “Fouilles à Malia. Le Quartier Nu 1990,” BCH 115(1991) 735-741.

A. J. Evans, “Knossos. Summary Report of the Excavations in 1900: I. The Palace,” BSA 6(1899-1900) 3-70.

A. J. Evans, “The Palace of Knossos. Provisional Report of the Excavations for the Year 1901,” BSA 7(1900-01) 1-120.

A. J. Evans, “The Palace of Knossos. Provisional Report of the Excavations for the Year 1902,” BSA 8(1901-02) 1-124.

A. Evans, “The Palace of Knossos,” BSA 9(1902-03) 1-153.

A. J. Evans, “The Palace of Knossos and its Dependencies,” BSA 11(1904-05) 1-26.
A. Evans, The Palace of Minos at Knossos I (London 1921).

A. Evans, The Palace of Minos at Knossos II (London 1928).

A. Evans, The Palace of Minos at Knossos III (London 1930).

A. Evans, The Palace of Minos at Knossos IV (London 1935).

A. Farnoux, Knossos: Searching for the Legendary Palace of King Minos (New York 1996).

S. C. German, “Photography and Fiction: The Publication of the Excavations at the Palace of Minos at Knossos,” JMA 18(2005) 209-230.

H.-E. Giesecke, “Wie sah Knossos wirklich aus?,” Talanta 16-17(1984-85) 7-52.

P. Hacigüzeller and U. Thaler, “Three Tales of Two Cities? A Comparative Analysis of Topological, Visual and Metric Properties of Archaeological Space in Malia and Pylos,” in E. Paliou, U. Lieberwirth, and S. Polla (eds.), Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Interpretation of Prehistoric and Historic Built Environments (Berln 2014) 203-262.

E. Hallager, The Mycenaean Palace at Knossos (Stockholm 1977).

E. and B. P. Hallager, “‘When the Saints Go Marching In’,” in D. Panagiotopoulos, I. Kaiser, and O. Kouka (eds.), Ein Minoer in Exil: Festschrift für Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier (Bonn 2015) 99-124.

M. Hollinshead, “Some Impressions of Knossos and King Minos’ Time,” New England Classical Journal 33(2006) 9-19.

M. S. F. Hood and D. Smyth, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area [BSA Supplement 14] (London 1981).

M. S. F. Hood and W. Taylor, The Bronze Age Palace at Knossos [BSA Supplement 13] (London 1981).

A. Karetsou, “Knossos after Evans: Past Interventions, Present State and Future Solutions,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 547-555.

K. Kopaka, “Archaiotetes apo ten Knoso. Enas katalogos tou 19ou aiona,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 151-161.

K. Kopaka, “E Knosos prin ton Kalokairino: mia lesmonemene metropole ton pegon,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 497-511.

R. Laffineur, “Habitat égéen et reconstitutions: quelques réflexions méthodologiques à propos du quartier nord-est du palais de Cnossos,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplement 19] (Paris 1990) 3-19.

V. La Rosa, “Lo scavo di Festòs nella letteratura archeologica italiana,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 25-49.

V. La Rosa, “Pour une révision préliminaire du second palais de Phaistos,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 71-97.

V. La Rosa, “New Data on the Western Facade of the Phaistian Palace,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 23-30.

Q. Letesson, “Arpenter le labyrinthe. Approche analytique des modeles d’acces et de circulation en architecture minoenne. Le cas du ‘Palais’ de Malia,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 131-163.

C. F. Macdonald, “The Neopalatial Palaces of Knossos,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 35-54.

C. F. Macdonald, “The Palaces at Knossos,” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 36-43.

C. F. Macdonald, Knossos (London 2005).

S. Mirié, Das Thronraumareal des Palastes von Knossos: Versuch einer Neuinterpretation seiner Entstehung und seiner Funktion [Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 26] (Bonn 1979).

W.-D. Niemeier, “Knossos in the New Palace Period (MM III - LM IB),” in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N.
Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 71-88.

M. Panagiotaki, “The Temple Repositories of Knossos: New Information from the Unpublished Notes of Sir Arthur Evans,” BSA 88(1993) 49-91.

M. Panagiotaki, The Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos [BSA Supplement 31] (London 1999).

M. Panagiotaki, “Knossos: Recent Work in the Central Palace Sanctuary Area,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 485-490.

M. Panagiotaki, “The Impact of the Eruption of Thera in the Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos, Crete,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 7(2007) 3-18.

O. Pelon, Le palais de Malia V [Études Crétoises 25] (Paris 1980).

O. Pelon, “Un dépôt de fondation au palais de Malia,” BCH 110(1986) 3-19.

O. Pelon, Guide de Malia. Le Palais et la nécropole de Chrysolakkos (Paris 1992).

O. Pelon, “La salle à piliers du palais de Malia et ses antécédents: recherches complémentaires,” BCH 117(1993) 523-546.

O. Pelon, “Contribution du palais de Malia à l’étude et à l’interpretation des “palais” minoens,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 111-121.

O. Pelon, “Les deux destructions du palais de Malia,” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 185-197.

O. Pelon, E. Andersen, and M. Schmid, Guide de Malia. Le palais et le nécropole de Chrysolakkos (Paris 1992).

L. Pernier, Il palazzo minoico di Festos I (Rome 1935).

L. Pernier and L. Banti, Il palazzo minoico di Festos II (Rome 1951).

I. Pini, “The Hieroglyphic Deposit and the Temple Repositories at Knossos,” in T. G. Palaima (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration [Aegaeum 5] (Liège 1990) 33-60.

L. Platon, “New Evidence for the Occupation at Zakros before the LM I Palace,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 671-681.

L. Platon, “The Political and Cultural Influence of the Zakros Palace on Nearby Sites and in a Wider Context,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 145-156.

L. Platon, “To Ysterominoïko I anaktoro tes Zakrou: mia ‘Knosos’ exo apo ten Knoso?,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 381-392.

L. Platon, “On the Dating and Character of the ‘Zakro Pits Deposit’,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 243-258.

L. Platon and E Gerontakou, “Middle Minoan III: A ‘Gap’ or a ‘Missing Link’ in the History of the Minoan Site of Zakros?,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), Intermezzo. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 197-212.

N. Platon, Zakros. The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete (New York 1971).

J.-C. Poursat, “Les fouilles de Phaistos dans la littérature archéologique française,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 79-87.

J.-C. Poursat, “Malia: Palace, State, City,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 259-268.

D. Puglisi, “Un arsenale marittimo l’edificio T di Kommòs?,” Creta Antica 2(2001) 113-124.
J. Raison, Le palais du second millénaire à Knossos I, 1-2: Le quartier nord [Études Crétoises 28] (Paris 1988).

J. Raison, Le palais du second millénaire à Knossos II, 1-2: Le front ouest et ses magasins [Études Crétoises 29] (Paris 1993).

J. Reid, Minoan Kato Zakro: A Pastoral Economy [BAR-IS 1713] (Oxford 2007).

G. Rethemiotakis, “The Hearths of the Minoan Palace at Galatas,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 721-727.

G. Rethemiotakis, “Social Rank and Political Power. The Evidence from the Minoan Palace at Galatas,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) 19-26.

G. Rethemiotakis, “Evidence on Social and Economic Changes at Galatas and Pediada in the New-Palace Period,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 55-69.

G. Rethemiotakis and K. Christakis, “The Middle Minoan III Period at Galatas: Pottery and Historical Implications,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 93-105.

I. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes. Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens 1997).

Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Archanes (Athens 1991).

M. Schmid, “Les portes multiples au ‘Mégaron’ du palais de Malia,” BCH 107(1983) 705-716.

J. Shaw, “The Minoan Palatial Establishment at Kommos. An Anatomy of its History, Function, and Interconnections,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 99-110.

J. W. Shaw, “The Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Civic Buildings,” in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (Princeton 2006) 1-116

J. W. Shaw, “Architectural Signposts: Datable Ashlar Style at Middle Minoan III Kommos in South-central Crete,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 137-143.

J. W. Shaw and A. Lowe, “The ‘Lost’ Portico at Knossos: The Central Court Revisited,” AJA 106(2002) 513-523.

J. S. Soles, “The Gournia Palace,” AJA 95(1991) 17-78.

J. S. Soles, “A Central Court at Gournia,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 123-132.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Palace-centered Polities in Eastern Crete: Neopalatial Petras and its Neighbors,” in W. E. Aufrecht, N. A. Mirau, and S. W. Gauley, Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete (Sheffield 1997) 263-277.

M. Tsipopoulou, “From Local Centre to Palace: The Role of Fortification in the Economic Transformation of the Siteia Bay Area, East Crete,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 179-189.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Petras, Siteia: From an Early Minoan II Settlement to a Palatial Centre,” BICS 43(1999) 220-221.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Before, During, After: The Architectural Phases of the Palatial Building at Petras, Siteia,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 847-855.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Petras, Siteia: The Palace, the Town, the Hinterland and the Protopalatial Background,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 133-144.

M. Tsipopoulou, “The Minoan Palace at Petras, Siteia (Eastern Crete),” Athena Review 3:3(2003) 44-51.

M. Tsipopoulou, “The Central Court of the Minoan Palace at Petras,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 49-59.

H. Van Effenterre, Le palais de Mallia et la cité minoenne: étude de synthèse (Rome 1980).

H. Van Effenterre and Y. Tzedakis, “Matériel inédit des premières fouilles au palais de Mallia,” AD 32A(1977) 156-181.

H. and M. Van Effenterre, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Le centre politique I. L'Agora (1960-66) [Études Crétoises XVII] (Paris 1969).

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M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteias I: Houses I.1 and I.2 (Philadelphia 2017).

P. M. Warren, “Knossos kai Archanes,” Archaiologia 53(1994) 57-67.

P. M. Warren, “Minoan Phaistos in Archaeological Literature in English,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 59-78.

P. M. Warren, “Petras in Context: Localism, Regionalism, Internationalism,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 355-360.

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