The spreading of objects and ideas in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: two case examples from the Argolid of the 13th and 12th centuries B. C. E.
New evidence from Tiryns is presented, suggesting that two object groups of eastern derivation-namely, wall brackets and armor scales-correspond not only in their form, but also in the contexts of their use, to oriental prototypes. The major importance of the wall brackets in Tiryns lies in the loca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2004
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2004, Volume: 336, Pages: 11-30 |
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| Summary: | New evidence from Tiryns is presented, suggesting that two object groups of eastern derivation-namely, wall brackets and armor scales-correspond not only in their form, but also in the contexts of their use, to oriental prototypes. The major importance of the wall brackets in Tiryns lies in the local manufacture of a foreign object with likely cultic connotation. While this new element in the Argolid was seemingly not introduced into public cults, it is likely to have been employed in domestic and workshop cults. The few bronze armor scales known from Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece are interpreted as evidence of an adoption not of a new type of weaponry, but rather of rituals using such objects either as pars pro toto dedications or as devices with apotropaic significance. It is argued that the potential for change brought about by such transmissions depended on whether society at large was willing to integrate the foreign traits into their world view. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/4150085 |