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Gray Minyan in the middle: Reconsidering central Greek and Cycladic Middle Bronze Age synchronisms
Hesperia 92 (2023): 1-42
An emerging understanding of Middle Helladic Gray Minyan pottery development in central Greece allows a reconsideration of relative synchronisms between the region and the Cyclades. Updated comparisons indicate that Ayia Irini period IV on Kea was resettled no earlier than the middle of Middle Helladic II in central Greece, not the beginning as previously presented.A shape for few seasons: The rapid appearance and disappearance of the mainland Greek panel cup
Hesperia 91 (2022): 571-648
The circulation of the panel cup on the Greek mainland beginning in Middle Helladic III is explored from various perspectives. The shape flourished for less than a century, principally in the northeast Peloponnese, in both funerary and domestic contexts.The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos: Construction, burial, and aftermath
Hesperia 91 (2022): 211-250
The circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it.Ceramic cooking dishes in the prehistoric Aegean: Variability and uses
Hesperia 91 (2022): 1-61
This article discusses the history of cooking dishes--namely, large, open and shallow, undecorated ceramic vessels--following their diachronic development from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (6th millennium to 8th century B.C.), and their synchronic distribution across the Aegean and the Balkans.Mycénien pa-we-a pe-ne-we-ta /pharweha phernewwenta/ : des textiles avec des pièces rapportées
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 9-20
The Mycenaean neuter plural pe-ne-we-ta qualifies articles of clothing (pa-we-a /pharweha/), or it is used near the logogram TELA. There have been several proposals: /pnewent-/ ‘vaporosi’ (Gallavotti), /pneuwent/- ‘ariosi’ (Doria), /pen-went-/ or /penewent-/ (Chadwick : pen- from πίνος ‘natural grease in wool’), or even /sphēn-went-/ ‘featuring a weave with wedges’ (σφήν), but none of these explanations is suitable (cf. DMic. II, 99). We try to show that pe-ne-we-ta can conceal /phernewwenta/ ‘provided with /phernes-/’.Drinking with animals: investigating zoomorphic decorations on second-millennium BCE western Anatolian pottery
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 21-46
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of zoomorphic plastic decorations on pottery from second-millennium BCE western Anatolia. Despite early observations by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy, these decorations have not been systematically studied until now.Some thoughts on the genesis of Linear B
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 47-76
This work examines the various issues related to the origin of Linear B script and the adaptation process that led to the creation of this script from the Linear A graphic system.The Greek term κτοίνα between the second and the first millennium BC
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 77-94
This article examines the Greek term κτοίνα, a lexical survival from the Mycenaean period that reappears sporadically in inscriptions from the Rhodian area dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as in Hesychius’ Lexicon.The ceramic deposits at Anemospilia (Archanes): a central Cretan perspective
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 95-116
The paper is concerned with the overall character of the pottery and the relative chronology of the Anemospilia/Archanes building on Juktas. The ceramic assemblages are discussed according to their position within the same.‘Heads’ of Thrones: Once More on Mycenaean se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 115-136
This article considers the interpretation of the Mycenaean terms se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi (Plural) and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re (Singular) that belong to the technical descriptive vocabulary of elaborate chairs (termed to-no /thornoi/) in the Linear B tablets of the Ta series from the palace complex of Pylos (c. 1200 BCE). The interpretation of the term as a compound of *se-re-mo- and -ka-ra is discussed.
A Pot-boiler at Pylos?
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 107-114
The paper seeks to show that the Pylos tablet Vn 130 does not relate to the work of unguent-boilers, i.e. makers of perfumed olive oil, in the various places listed on the record, as T. Palaima has argued in 2014, but instead deals with the collection/receipt by the palace of vessels produced by bronzesmiths in the places in question, as
‘Minoan’ or ‘Mycenaean’ Wine? Observations on an LM IIIA Inscribed Pithos from Knossos
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 99-106
This article discusses the GORILA KN Zb <36> and Zb <37> inscriptions which are now identified with the logograms incised on one of the pithoi from the Ninth West Magazine of the Knossos palace. Based on palaeographic observations we suggest that the pithos is not inscribed in Linear A but in Linear B.
Deciphering Kober’s Contribution to the Decipherment of Linear B
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 83-98
Alice E. Kober was an instrumental figure in the decipherment of Linear B, in that she discovered grammatical paradigms in the script that enabled her to begin the phonetic grid that was later so essential to Ventris’s decipherment. But more than 70 years after her untimely death, no one has ever been able to describe exactly how she made her
From Marking to Writing? A Picrolite Inscribed Plaque from Erimi in Cyprus
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 9-30
This paper focuses on the possibilities inherent in a multi-scalar approach to the investigation of an inscribed picrolite plaque from Erimi (Cyprus), currently kept at the Iosephides collection. Results of macro- and micro-analyses allow for a preliminary interpretation of this unparalleled object in its background. A combination of different analytical data is discussed, including the morphological features and characteristics of