A Sardinian Askos from Crete
Author:
- Lucia VagnettiLVLucia Vagnetti
- 1 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Annual of the British School at Athens
- Vol. 84, 355-360
Abstract
An askos (BSA 49 [1954] 222, pl. 25:111) found by R.W. Hutchinson in Tomb 2 at Khaniale Tekke near Knossos is recognized as an export from nuragic Sardinia; similar askoi are common there in the same chronological range, c. 850–680 B.C., as that represented by the Cretan context. Although other good parallels have also been found outside Sardinia, notably at Vetulonia in Etruria, the Tekke piece is the first Sardinian artefact of the Early Iron Age to be identified in the Aegean. Its presence there is related to the Phoenician element in the complex pattern of long distance trade that preceded the arrival in Italy of the first Western Greeks.Keywords
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