The etymology of σμάραγδος is traditionally related to the Semitic root *brq, ʻto shineʼ. However, this article sets out the idea that this etymology comes from a Semitic word related to the root *wrq, ʻto be greenʼ, which is, in turn, related to myc. pa-ra-ku-we and its derivatives.
The Myc. PN a-o-ri-me-ne may be interpreted as a possessive compound ʻwho has the μένος of the sword’, or as ʻwho has the μένος in the swordʼ, if the compounding vowel -i- was still functional as a locative marker, as Ruijgh proposed, or simply as the combination of the two elements [rage] and [sword].
Au Minoen Récent IIIA-B seulement les structures de stockage du site crétois de Haghia Triada, dans la plaine de la Messara, étaient compatibles avec la quantité GRA 10300[, qui est associée au toponyme linéaire B da-wo dans la tablette de Cnossos KN F(2) 852+. Ce fait soutient l’identification da-wo = Haghia Triada, qui à son tour permet d’établir un terminus post quem pour la rédaction de la tablette en question.
Dieser Aufsatz stellt die neuen Inschriften und Zeichen der Linear A-Schrift vor, die in Milet während der Grabungen am Athena-Tempel 1994 bis zu Tage gekommen sind. Diese Gruppe von Lokalen und importierten Inschriften bestätigt den Gebrauch der Schrift in Milet und die engen Kontakte zu Kreta sowie dem südostägäischen Raum.
Given the latest archaeological evidence, one should expect terms pertaining to water management and hydraulic engineering in the Linear B corpus. Identification of such terms will aid in current and future interpretations.
A long-standing consensus among Mycenaean scholars is that a-re-ja, an epithet of Hermes in the Pylos tablet Tn 316, must be somehow related to Ares, the war god. Hermes Areiās would be either a derivative in *-ās of Ares or, according to a recent suggestion, an abbreviated compound in the first member of which Ares would figure. The present paper argues for a different solution, taking a-re-ja (dat.) /aleii̯āi/ as an apposed noun epithet of the root *h2leu̯- ‘to ward off’.
Étude des cinq tablettes récapitulatives de la série Ed en linéaire B de Pylos. Contrairement à ce qui est généralement admis, elles concernent les terres enregistrées non pas dans les séries Eb et/ou Ep, mais dans d’autres séries actuellement perdues.
Silvia Ferrara & Diego CristianiKadmos 55.1-2 (2017): 17–36
In base a recenti analisi dei sigilli in pietra iscritti nel sistema di scrittura geroglifico cretese, ancora indecifrato, si puo proporre una nuova ipotesi di interpretazione della funzione di alcuni segni. Alcuni elementi che erano stati considerati come simboli decorativi sono stati re-interpretati, invece, come elementi semantici del repertorio geroglifico cretese.
Το άρθρο πραγματεύεται το τέλος του ανακτορικού συστήματος στη μυκηναϊκή Ελλάδα και τη μετάβαση από τον Ασιατικό Τρόπο Παραγωγής στην οικονομία της Εποχής του Σιδήρου, η οποία ήταν βασισμένη στην ατομική ιδιοκτησία της γης. Έπειτα, από μια σύντομη παρουσίαση του ανακτορικού οικονομικού συστήματος, εξετάζονται οι αιτίες, οι οποίες οδήγησαν στις καταστροφές των ανακτόρων από πυρκαγιά γύρω στο 1200 π.Χ.
Michael Fotiadis Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (2016): 1-11
The Petrota chert source, in Greek Thrace, was exploited in the Middle Palaeolithic and again in the Neolithic and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. An extensive scatter of products of that exploitation today surrounds the source. The site was systematically surveyed between 1998 and 2010.
Tristan Carter Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (2016): 13-34
This paper details the characterisation of four obsidian artefacts from the Mesolithic site of Livari Skiadi, one of only a handful of such pre-Neolithic sites on Crete. Elemental analysis using EDXRF sources the raw materials to Sta Nychia on Melos; in concert with other data, it can be suggested that this was the preferred Melian source for Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene populations.
W. Cavanagh, C. Mee & J. Renard Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (2016): 35-49
A series of radiocarbon dates for Early Bronze Age contexts from the excavations at Kouphovouno are published for the first time. By adopting a Bayesian modelling approach, the 14C estimates allow greater precision in arriving at an absolute chronology for the period.