The History of Minoan Pottery

by Philip P. Betancourt

The description for this book, The History of Minoan Pottery, will be forthcoming.

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Philip P. Betancourt (born 1936 as Felipe Pablo Andreas Betancourt) is an American archaeologist, author, and a specialist in the Aegean Bronze Age. He was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and the Department of the History of Art. He previously served as the Director of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Betancourt received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Reviews

[James Stratis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was terrific for 1985 but so much more has subsequently been analyzed and published. It is still an amazing overview with good descriptions, chronologies and other categorizations with drawings and photographs. As the author states it is mostly about pots and not about "other works of clay". There is plenty to marvel at and the author is leading expert in this subject matter but also the larger context of the material culture and other associated interdisciplinary fields. Could we hope for an expansion or an update?

[Ivy Kleinbart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great drawings of standard ancient Minoan patterns, which I was able to copy for glazing pots. There is also a carefully documented archeological history that I followed much less closely but still learned something from.

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