Late Antique Knossos. Understanding the city: evidence of mosaics and religious architecture1
Late Antique Knossos. Understanding the city: evidence of mosaics and religious architecture1
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晚期古董克诺索斯。
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2004
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0.4
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R. Sweetman
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R. Sweetman
对历史和碑文资料的解释只能提供克诺索斯在公元5世纪和7世纪之间的政治和社会环境的大致轮廓。因此，我们对晚期古董克诺索斯的理解主要来自山谷中两座基督教大教堂的挖掘遗迹：疗养院大教堂和KMF大教堂。虽然关于KMF大教堂的前者的挖掘已经全部出版，但只出版了它的建筑的简要摘要。因此，这里将提供对大教堂本身挖掘的详细分析，包括其建筑、马赛克的细节，以及整个大教堂建筑群相关元素的摘要(即将对整个晚期古董KMF挖掘进行详细讨论)。因此，不仅提供了对KMF大教堂的新的和全面的解释，而且首次对晚期古董Knossos的物质文化进行了整理和随后的分析，以提供对这一时期城市性质的清楚了解。尽管缺乏国内证据，但结合停尸房遗骸对幸存的建筑(主要是宗教建筑)进行背景研究，可以让人们对社会有一个广泛的认识，并对城市的发展有一个清晰的理解。因此，这里的目的是检验令人信服的证据，与人们普遍认为的相反，在古董时代晚期，克诺索斯仍然是一个充满活力和影响力的城市，就像它在罗马时期一样。
Interpretation of the historical and epigraphical data can only provide a bare outline of the political and social environment of Knossos between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Consequently, our understanding of late Antique Knossos comes primarily from the excavated remains of two of the Christian basilicas in the Valley; the Sanatorium Basilica and the KMF Basilica. Although excavations of the former have been published in full, concerning the KMF Basilica, only a brief summary of its architecture has been published. As a result, a detailed analysis of the excavations of the basilica itself will be made available here, including particulars of its architecture, mosaics, and summaries of the associated elements of the entire basilica complex (a detailed discussion of the whole Late Antique KMF excavations is forthcoming). As such, not only is a new and full interpretation of the KMF Basilica provided, but also for the first time the material culture of Late Antique Knossos is collated and subsequently analysed to provide a clear understanding of the nature of the city during this period. Despite a dearth of domestic evidence, a contextual study of the surviving architecture (principally religious) in conjunction with the mortuary remains, allows a broad perception of society and a clear comprehension of the development of the city. Thus the aim here is to examine the compelling evidence that, contrary to common belief, during the Late Antique period Knossos continued to be a vibrant and influential city as it had been in the Roman period.