Editing Minoan civilization (section)

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[[File:Knossos bull leaping fresco.jpg|thumb|280px|alt=Fresco of an acrobat straddling a bull, with two helpers|''[[Bull-Leaping Fresco]]'' found at Knossos]]

The modern term "Minoan" is derived from the name of the mythical [[Minos|King Minos]], who the [[Classical Greece|Classical Greeks]] believed to have ruled [[Knossos]] in the distant past. It was popularized by [[Arthur Evans]], possibly drawing on an earlier suggestion by [[Karl Hoeck]]. It is a modern coinage and not used by the Minoans, whose [[Endonym|name for themselves]] is unknown.<ref name=NK>{{cite journal |first1=Nektarios |last1=Karadimas |first2=Nicoletta |last2=Momigliano |author-link2=Nicoletta Momigliano |title=On the Term 'Minoan' before Evans's Work in Crete (1894) |journal=Studi Micenei ed Egeo-anatolici |volume=46 |number=2 |year=2004 |pages=243–258 |url=http://www.aegeussociety.org/images/uploads/pdf/Karadimas-2004-SMEA.pdf}}</ref><ref>John Bennet, "Minoan civilization", ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', 3rd ed., p. 985.</ref>

The [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptians]] referred to the Minoans as the {{transliteration|egy|[[wiktionary:kftjw#Proper_noun|kftjw]]}} (vocalized as "{{transliteration|egy|Keftiu}}" in modern [[Egyptian language#Egyptological_pronunciation|Egyptological pronunciation]]). It is not known whether this was an [[exonym]] or if it was an [[endonym]] originating in the [[Minoan language]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kozloff|first=Arielle P.|author-link=Arielle P. Kozloff|title=Amenhotep III: Egypt's Radiant Pharaoh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKsgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA211|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-50499-7|page=211}}</ref><ref name="auto">Dickinson, O (1994) p. 248</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wachsmann|first=Shelley|title=Aegeans in the Theban tombs|year=1994|publisher=Peeters|isbn=9068310666}}</ref><ref name="Strange">Strange, J. ''Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation'' (Leiden: Brill) 1980</ref> Potentially related terms were used by a variety of [[Near Eastern]] cultures, and the [[Biblical Hebrew|Biblical]] term '''Caphtor''' has sometimes been identified with Crete.<ref name="Strange">Strange, J. ''Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation'' (Leiden: Brill) 1980</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kozloff|first=Arielle P.|title=Amenhotep III: Egypt's Radiant Pharaoh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKsgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA211|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-50499-7|page=211}}</ref><ref name="auto">Dickinson, O (1994) p. 248</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wachsmann|first=Shelley|title=Aegeans in the Theban tombs|year=1994|publisher=Peeters|isbn=9068310666}}</ref><ref>[[Edward Wells (theologian)|Edward Wells]], ''An historical geography of the Old and New Testament'', Clarendon Press, 1809</ref>