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ARTICLES | 2025

‘Heads’ of Thrones: Once More on Mycenaean se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re

Vassilis Petrakis 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?

John Killen 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

Maurizio Del Freo, Julien Zurbach, with a note by Kostas S. Christakis 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

Brent Davis, Anthony Bronzo 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

Luca Bombardieri, Yiannis Violaris, Demetrios A. Iosephides, Dante Abate, Thilo Rehren & Massimo Perna 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

Luminescence dating of Quaternary coastal deposits of Evoikos gulf (central Greece)

M. Kazantzaki, C. Athanassas, Y. Bassiakos & E. Tsakalos In E. Photos-Jones, Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou & E. Kouloumpi (eds), 2016. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (Bar International Series 2780), Oxford: 207-214.

It is to be noted here that it is the first time that such old luminescence ages have been reported for Greek coastal sediments. This paper presents preliminary luminescence dating results with special focus on the performance of the PIRIR290 methodology. Palaeoenvironmental implications of the obtained PIRIR290 ages are also discussed.

Experimental stone-cutting with the Mycenaean pendulum saw

Nicholas G. Blackwell Antiquity 91.361 (2018): 217-232

The development of an advanced stone-working technology in the Aegean Bronze Age is suggested by the putative Mycenaean pendulum saw. This device seems to have been used to cut through hard sedimentary rock at a number of sites on the Greek mainland and, according to some scholars, also in central Anatolia.

Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece

Costas Papadopoulos, Yannis Hamilakis, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika & Marta Díaz-Guardamino Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29.4 (2019): 625-652

The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade.

Domestic and ritual use of plants and fuels in the Neolithic cave of Alepotrypa, southern Peloponnese, Greece: The wood charcoal and phytolith evidence

Maria Ntinou & Georgia Tsartsidou Quaternary International 457 (2017): 211-227

The study presents the combined results of wood charcoal and phytolith analysis at Alepotrypa Cave, southern Peloponnese, Greece. The cave preserves rich cultural remains (hearth and floor constructions, pits and platforms, human bone scatters, massive quantities of fine pottery, lithic artefacts and ornaments) spanning the late Early to the Final Neolithic.

Landscape and wood-fuel in Akrotiri (Thera, Greece) during the Bronze Age

Antigoni Mavromati Quaternary International 458 (2017): 44-55

Wood charcoal macroremains originating from the archaeological site of Akrotiri, Thera (Greece) have been analyzed. The results obtained suggest the existence of thermophilous vegetation on the island from the Early Cycladic period right up to the catastrophic eruption of the volcano in the Late Cycladic I period.

The Palaeolithic record of Greece: A synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future

Vangelis Tourloukis & Katerina Harvati Quaternary International 466.A (2018): 48-65

The Palaeolithic record of Greece remains highly fragmented and discontinuous in both space and time. Nevertheless, new surveys and excavations, along with the revisiting of known sites or old collections, and the conduction of lithic and faunal laboratory analyses, have altogether enriched the Greek Palaeolithic dataset with important new evidence and novel interpretations.

Cooking plant foods in the northern Aegean: Microbotanical evidence from Neolithic Stavroupoli (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Juan José García-Granero, Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Amy Bogaard & Stavros Kotsos Quaternary International 496 (2018): 140-151

Intensive archaeobotanical research in northern Greece and other circum-Mediterranean regions over the last two decades has demonstrated an extensive spectrum of domestic and wild plants consumed by Neolithic communities. However, macrobotanical remains are seldom associated with the artefact in which they were cooked, and therefore we know the list of ingredients but not what ingredients were cooked together or how were they cooked.