Nikolaos Plato
Nikolaos Platon (born January 8, 1909 in Kefalonia , † March 28, 1992 in Athens ) was a Greek archaeologist and the excavator of the Minoan palace of Kato Zakros on Crete . He studied at the University of Athens . One of his great achievements in the field of archeology was the establishment of a second relative chronology of the Minoan culture . In contrast to Evans' chronological system, which is based on the stratigraphy in Knossos , his chronology, drawn up in 1958, is based exclusively on the construction and destruction phases of the Minoan palaces, divided into pre (pre), old (proto) and new (Neo-) and post-palace period (palatikum).
Works
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Corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean seals , Vol. 2., Heraklion, Archaeological Museum
- Part 1: The seals of the pre-palace period . Zabern, Mainz 1969
- Part 2: The seals of the old palace period . (with Ingo Pini , Gisela Salies and André Dessenne) Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 978-3-8053-3992-6
- Part 3: The seals of the New Palace period . (with Ingo Pini) Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 978-3-8053-4043-4
- Part 4: A. The seals of the post-palace period . B. Undated late Minoan seals . (with Ingo Pini) Zabern, Mainz 1985, ISBN 978-3-8053-4044-1
- Crete . Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-35001-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolaos Platon in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Plato, Nikolaos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek archaeologist, excavator of the Minoan palace in Crete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kefalonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1992 |
| Place of death | Athens |