ARTICLES | 2025
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