Minoan Pottery: From Materials to Materiality

Carl Knappett

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Minoan Pottery: From Materials to Materiality*

Carl Knappett

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Since the early 20th century, Minoan pottery has often been treated as art. Open to criticism for its subjectivity and indistinct methodology, this perspective does hold one distinct advantage: it encourages a synoptic viewpoint by connecting pottery with other artistic categories, such as wall paintings, metal and stone vases, faience and ivory figurines, and seals. Curiously, the anthropological and archaeometric approaches to Minoan pottery that are seen in many quarters as superseding art historical perspectives have lost this important viewpoint. The archaeometric focus on the specific properties of ceramic technologies, and the anthropological concentration on the organization of production, exchange and consumption, have provided many new interpretations, but their weakness, rarely realized, is a narrow focus on pottery alone. However, there is, arguably, a move afoot to regain the synoptic advantages of art historical approaches, in the guise of an increasing concern w

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1 Cf. Hodder 2011.

2 Day et al. 2006, 23–4.

3 Orton et al. 1993.

4 See early interventions of Cesnola and Ohnefalsch-Richter.

5 Furtwängler and Löschcke 1886.

6 Murray 1890.

7 Hall 1907.

8 Riegl 1893.

9 Myres 1893–1895.

10 Brown 1986, 41.

11 Orton et al. 1993, 5–6.

12 Brown 1986.

13 Furtwängler and Löschcke 1886; Milchhöfer 1883.

14 Furtwängler 1900; Rodenwaldt 1927; Matz 1928; Snijder 1936.

15 Indeed, note Riegl’s 1900 essay on a Mycenaean topic, gold Vapheio cups. Riegl 2000.

16 Groenewegen-Frankfort 1951.

17 Groenewegen-Frankfort 1951, 185.

18 Walberg 1986.

19 Lacy 1967; Higgins 1967.

20 Glotz 1923; Demargne 1964.

21 E.g. Popham 1967; Catling et al. 1979; Warren and Hankey 1989; Hood 1996; Momigliano 2007.

22 Levi and Carinci 1988.

23 Betancourt 1990; Watrous 1992.

24 Hallager and Hallager 1997; Brogan and Hallager 2011.

25 Do note though Sinclair Hood’s 1978 textbook, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece (Hood 1978).

26 Catling and Millett 1965; Catling and Jones 1977; Catling et al. 1980.

27 Betancourt 1979, 1984.

28 Seen in Betancourt’s 1985 History of Minoan Pottery (Betancourt 1985).

29 The same may be said of Jones 1986.

30 Peacock 1982. Note its inclusion of ethnoarchaeology, as also in Betancourt 1984.

31 van der Leeuw 1976; Balfet 1965.

32 van der Leeuw and Pritchard 1984.

33 E.g. Day 1991.

34 Betancourt 1979; 1984.

35 Foster 1982; Niemeier 1985; Müller 1997; Georgiou 1986; Gillis 1990; Koehl 2006.

36 E.g. Wilson and Day 1994, 1999; Day et al. 1997.

37 Whitelaw et al. 1997; Shaw et al. 2001.

38 Knappett 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002.

39 van de Moortel 2002; Christakis 2005; Day, Relaki and Todaro 2010.

40 E.g. Day and Wilson 2004.

41 Borgna 2004; Langohr 2009; Girella 2007, 2010.

42 Hamilakis 2008.

43 Hamilakis 2008, 13.

44 Such as the Middle Minoan IB pottery from Deposit A in the Early West Magazines, Knossos – Macdonald and Knappett 2007.

45 Hamilakis 2008, 18.

46 This idea emerged through discussion with Yannis Hamilakis during the conference, and I am most grateful for his input.

47 E.g. Hamilakis et al. 2002.

48 I am grateful to Yannis Hamilakis for raising this interesting point in discussion.

49 See for example Olivier 2008.

50 Poursat and Knappett 2005; Macdonald and Knappett 2007.

51 Scholars including Tom Brogan, Gerald Cadogan, Erik Hallager, Sinclair Hood, Vincenzo La Rosa, Lefteris Platon, Giorgios Rethemiotakis, Giannis Sakellarakis, Jeff Soles, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Maria Vlasaki, and Peter Warren.

52 E.g. Haggis and Mook 1993; Moody et al. 2003.

53 Kiriatzi 2003; Pentedeka et al. 2010.

54 Gauß and Kiriatzi 2011.

55 Hilditch 2009.

56 Haggis 2007.

57 Hatzaki 2013.

58 Brysbaert 2011; van Dommelen and Knapp 2010.

59 Shapland 2009; 2010a; 2010b.

60 Tsoraki, Doonan and Sherratt (forthcoming).

61 Ingold 2007.

62 See Gamble 2007.

63 Cf. Belting 2001.

64 Groenewegen-Frankfort 1951, 185–86.

65 Hodder 2011.

* I thank the organizers for the invitation to the conference and for such a well-run and stimulating event. I am grateful to Donald Haggis for comments on a previous draft, and for permission to reproduce figure 3; to Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier for permission to reproduce figure 2; and to Andrew Shapland for providing very useful feedback on the early art historical approaches to Mycenaean and Minoan pottery.

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Knappett, C. (2015). Minoan Pottery: From Materials to Materiality. In S. Cappel, U. Günkel-Maschek, & D. Panagiotopoulos (éds.), Minoan Archaeology (1‑). Presses universitaires de Louvain. https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/3075

Knappett, Carl. « Minoan Pottery: From Materials to Materiality ». In Minoan Archaeology, édité par Sarah Cappel, Ute Günkel-Maschek, et Diamantis Panagiotopoulos. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2015. https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/3075.

Knappett, Carl. « Minoan Pottery: From Materials to Materiality ». Minoan Archaeology, édité par Sarah Cappel et al., Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2015, https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/3075.

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Cappel, S., Günkel-Maschek, U., & Panagiotopoulos, D. (éds.). (2015). Minoan Archaeology (1‑). Presses universitaires de Louvain. https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/2999

Cappel, Sarah, Ute Günkel-Maschek, et Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, éd. Minoan Archaeology. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2015. https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/2999.

Cappel, Sarah, et al., éditeurs. Minoan Archaeology. Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2015, https://0-books-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/pucl/2999.

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