KO-RO-NO-WE-SA. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies
John Bennet, Artemis Karnava & Torsten Meißner (eds)
City: Rethymon
Year: 2024
Publisher: University of Crete
Description: 633 pages, numerous colour & black and white images
From the preface
Copenhagen, September 2015: the Comité international permanent des études mycéniennes (CIPEM) accepts John Bennet’s proposal to host the 15th Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies in September 2020, in Athens, based at the British School at Athens (BSA), thus returning the meeting to Greece for the first time since 1990, while also retaining a British connec-tion for the first time since 1963. Torsten Meißner and Artemis Karnava generously agree subsequently to assist with organisation and publication of the colloquium and its proceedings.
March 2020: the world is struck by the Covid-19 pandemic, severely affecting travel and forcing a significant proportion of the world’s population into some form of lockdown. Given the lack of certainty about how the situation would develop for the rest of the year, the organisers, with the support of CIPEM, reluctantly and with great disappointment postpone the colloquium for one year, to September 2021. However, despite the successful introduction of vaccines early in 2021, the situation remained uncertain, particularly given the international nature of our field that would require many to travel (some over considerable distances) in order to participate in person. And in the meantime, in addition to health concerns, international air and train travel routes had been severely curtailed, making an in-person rencontre practically impossible to hold. Accordingly the difficult decision was eventually taken not to hold the colloquium in person, nor to attempt a wholly virtual meeting, given time differences and the impersonal nature of the on-screen interactions that we were all experiencing in our daily routine.
Instead, the colloquium’s necessary business (committee meetings, etc.) was carried out virtually on the days originally scheduled for the physical meeting. As a public-facing bonus, colleagues working on new finds from Knossos on Crete and Ayios Vasileios in Laconia presented these in on-line keynote lectures attended by large audiences. The organisers also undertook to publish all papers originally accepted for the colloquium, together with written versions of the keynote lectures, as the pro-ceedings of ‘the colloquium that never was’, its title (parce-qu’il est permis de rire entre les mycénologues) ko-ro-no-we-sa (cf. PYTa 711.2). Thanks to Artemis Karnava, and with financial assistance generously made available by the Cambridge Faculty of Classics, the volume you have in your hand – or perhaps are reading on-screen – has been published in the Αριάδνη series of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete.
As editors and organisers, we were gratified to note a good number of early- and mid-career scholars among those contributing to this volume, and even more early-career scholars and students had expressed an interest in attending the meeting itself, leaving the editors in no doubt that interest in Mycenaean, and indeed Aegean studies more widely, is unbroken and continues to attract the intellectual attention of rising academics in a large number of disciplines. It is also pleasing to note the creation of a new CIPEM sub-committee on digital approaches, first proposed in Rome in 2006 and long overdue, plus a general eagerness among sub-committee members to continue their work in the years between colloquia. We wish them well in those endeavours.
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Contents
Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Keynote lectures – new discoveries
An archaeological and epigraphical overview of some inscriptions found in the Cult Center of the city of Knossos (Anetaki plot) [27-43]
Athanasia Kanta, Dimitri Nakassis, Thomas G. Palaima, Massimo Perna
An assemblage of Linear B administrative documents from Ayios Vasileios, Laconia: preliminary report on the study of the documents in their archaeological context [45-84]
Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, John Bennet, Angeliki Karagianni, Vassilis Petrakis, Nektarios Karadimas, Eleftheria Kardamaki
2. Reports, projects, databases and archival material
Rapport 2016-2021 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B [87-124]
Maurizio Del Freo
2016-2020 report on the Cypriot syllabic inscriptions [125-136]
Markus Egetmeyer
Rapporto sulla preparazione del corpus della scrittura cipro-minoica [137-142]
Massimo Perna
DĀMOS, database of Mycenaean at Oslo – Developments and perspectives [143-160]
Federico Aurora
Mycenaean philology and materiality: the “pa-i-to Epigraphic Project.” An integrative approach to Linear B tablets from Knossos [161-174]
Georgia Flouda, Erika Notti
Mycenaean palaeography: the “pa-i-to Epigraphic Project.” An integrative approach to Linear B tablets from Knossos [175-192]
Alessandro Greco
A new tool on Greek lexicography: El léxico del griego micénico [193-206]
Juan Piquero Rodríguez
Errata et corrigenda à PTT2 au 04/07/22 [207-213]
Maurizio Del Freo
H αποκρυπτογράφηση της Γραμμικής Β και ο Κωνσταντίνος Δ. Κτιστόπουλος [215-237]
Vasileios L. Aravantinos, Charalambos E. Maravelias
Wilhelm Deecke’s bequest at the Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg: a glimpse into 19th century archaeological investigations in Cyprus [239-256]
Artemis Karnava
3. Linear A and Linear B texts
Landowning and the creation of private estates in Pylian pa-ki-ja-ne [259-270]
Claudia Valeria Alonso Moreno
a2-geš-gar-ra during the Ur III period: an early example of ta-ra-si-ja [271-286]
Richard Firth
Quelques remarques sur les tablettes en linéaire B de Pylos [287-300]
Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi
Notes on the Knossos L(2) tablets [301-309]
John T. Killen
Migration in the Mycenaean world: the evidence for immigrants [311-324]
Stavroula Nikoloudis
Diachronic perspectives on the Knossos textiles (L-series) in the Room of the Chariot Tablets, the North Entrance Passage and the Main Archival Phase [325-345]
Marie-Louise Nosch
L’administration de l’huile à Ougarit et dans le monde mycénien: aspects des procédures palatiales [347-358]
Françoise Rougemont, Juan-Pablo Vita
Signs of the times? Testing the chronological significance of Linear A and B palaeography
Ester Salgarella, Anna P. Judson [359-379]
Gold in the Linear B tablets [381-395]
Jörg Weilhartner
4. Linear B vocabulary
Mycenaean to-ko [399-402]
Alberto Bernabé
Linguistic evidence for animal husbandry in the Linear B tablets: occupational terms, titles and personal names [403-416]
Elena Džukeska
The supposed thematic genitive in -(C)o in Mycenaean: a mirage [417-432]
José L. García Ramón
Mycenaean names in -to: the Minoan component in the 2nd millennium BC through the lens of anthroponymy [433-448]
José Miguel Jiménez Delgado
Historical reflections on the Pylos Ta series: putting te-ke in its place [449-466]
Thomas G. Palaima
Linguistic idiosyncrasies and chronology of Linear B tablets from the Room of the Chariot Tablets and the North Entrance Passage at Knossos [467-482]
Rachele Pierini
Mycenaean qe-te-o and Greek adjectives in -τέος and *-eyo- [483-496]
Rupert J. E. Thompson
o-u-ka, o-u-ko and the Mycenae Oe tablets revisited [497-507]
Carlos Varias García
5. Scripts and archaeology
Comparing Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A seal stones: a preliminary assessment of forms, materials, sequences, uses [511-526]
Matilde Civitillo
The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos [527-543]
Jack L. Davis, Sharon R. Stocker, Salvatore Vitale, John Bennet, Hariclia Brecoulaki, Anna P. Judson
Reduce, reuse, recycle? The clay of the Pylos tablets [545-559]
Julie Hruby, Dimitri Nakassis
The Linear B tablets from the North Entrance Passage at Knossos: a preliminary account of an interdisciplinary approach [561-578]
Ophélie Mouthuy
Colloquium minutes and resolutions
Minutes of the CIPEM meeting [581]
Resolutions of the Comité des signes [585]
Resolutions of the Comité des instruments de travail [589]
Resolutions of the Committee on digital approaches to Aegean scripts [593[
Indexes
Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypriot syllabic texts [599]
Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypriot words and sign-groups [619]