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Author: * Demetrios Xanthippos -
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Date: Apr 4, 2004 - 11:16
A while ago we had a discussion on the more recent thinking regarding the role and influence of Egyptian culture on the Minoans. We know that Sir Arthur Evans insisted that the Minoan culture was unique and entirely self-contained and Minoan studies are only just starting to come out from under this thinking and to look at the probable role that Egypt played in Minoan development.
Recently I was reading a reprint of a much older book from the 1920s (The Business Life of Ancient Athens, George M. Calhoun) and came across an interesting passage. The book has to do with business and commerce in Classical Athens, but begins with a précis of Aegean history down to the fifth century BC. Interestingly, at this early stage (1926) The Egyptian role was considered to be quite clear.
Archaeological finds have revealed a commercial intercourse with Egypt that goes back to the earlier Egyptian dynasties. Vases produced by Minoan artists were being imported into Egypt in considerable quantities by 2000 B.C., and seem to have been a regular article of commerce down to the last Minoan period… Few Minoan sites of importance have failed to yield articles of Egyptian manufacture, and the influence of Egyptian design and technique is easily discernible in the native Aegean wares of various periods. (Emphasis mine)
I find it interesting that 80 years ago the general theory was the same that archaeologists are only now beginning to come around to.
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