The system of palatial organization in the Near East and the Aegean in the late Early and Middle Bronze Age
Abstract
Since the first discovery of the palatial complexes of Crete and the Near East, similarities have been noted among them, concerning their architectural design, the function of their rooms, their decorative art, their common concepts (political, religious, social) that were expressed through the buildings and the role that they performed in their societies. For years there had been a constant shift between the theories that supported the influence of the Near East on the creation of the Cretan palaces and those which, thanks to the continued discoveries on the island, prioritized the search for local development points. Moreover, unlike the palaces of the Near East, whose status and function are unquestionable, information about Crete is not so clear. For this reason, research has gone through several stages in trying to identify the nature of the political organization of Crete and, by extension, the origin and operation of the palaces. This thesis seeks to identify the similarities an ...
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