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ARTICLES | 2026

Transformers Energize! Aegean Bronze Age rhyta in moments of transformation

In A. Bokern & C. Rowan (eds), Embodying Value? The Transformation of Objects in and from the Ancient World (Oxford 2014): 35-51

This paper examines the well-known Bronze Age Aegean vessel type of rhyta as agents of transfer and transformation. A series of ‘moments’ presents the variety of contexts in which rhyta occur, including as transformers of content, as part of ritual processes and geographical movements.

Luxurious cosmetic containers of Mycenaean times (16th – 14th cent. B.C.) (in Greek)

In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 47-54

The present article brings together evidence on the existence of toiletries and cosmetics, and makes further suggestions on the use of a special class of objects that have not gained the appropriate attention: the gold chain lockets, destined to contain some precious substances/cosmetics.

Iron Age cemetery at the Panagitsa-Xervi of Edessa (in Greek)

In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 81-90

In 2005, it became possible to undertake rescue excavation of 13 tombs within the Iron Age Cemetery, at the border of the Panagitsa-Zervi farms in the Municipality of Edessa, Regional Unity of Pella.

An iconographical observation on the LHIIIC “Painted Stele” from Mycenae (in Greek)

In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 35-45

The “painted stele” was discovered in 1893 by Christos Tsountas in a chamber tomb at Mycenae and was immediately published. It is covered with stucco and painted in LHIIIC style.

Von den Kykladen nach Mykene – Religionen der Frühzeit

In F.S. Knauß (ed.), Die Unsterblichen. Götter Griechenlands (2012): 18-23

Als im 19. Jahrhundert die ersten Marmorfiguren bekannt wurden, die heute als ,Kykladenidole‘ berühmt sind, wurden sie auch in der Fachwelt zunächst eher abschätzig beurteilt.

Pella from the Bronze to the Hellenistic age (in Greek)

In Μ. Tiverios, P. Nigdelis & P. Adam-Veleni (eds), Threpteria: Studies on Ancient Macedonia (Thessaloniki 2012): 8-25

For Pella prior to the middle of the 4th cent. BC, the excavation work carried out in the area of the new entrance to the archaeological area was of immense importance, for it has confirmed the continuous habitation, unbroken since the Early Bronze Age of the site where the Macedonian capital was established in, most probably, the late 5th cent. BC, as proven by graves from the Bronze and Iron ages, and from the Archaic and Classical eras.

Mycenaean Aegina. Kolonna – Lazarides: the tale of two settlements (in Greek)

In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 69-79

The settlements blossomed on Aegina during prehistoric times, Kolonna, in the NW part of the island, and Lazarides, in the E. Kolonna, located in a low promontory, flourished from the 3rd millennium BC, maintaining trading contacts with several sites in the Aegean and, probably, beyond, whereas Lazarides, in an environment totally different, began developing from the end of the 17th c. BC.

Masks and Ritual Performance on the Island of Cyprus

American Journal of Archaeology 119.1 (January 2015), 3-45

The island of Cyprus is well known for its abundance of masks, which have been the subject of focused studies as well as broader investigations on Phoenician and Punic masks. Yet, there is no comprehensive and diachronic overview of this important corpus contextualized within its Cypriot setting.

Opening the Bronze Age world

Antiquity 89 (February 2015), 210-212

In the article by Johan Ling and Zofia Stos-Gale (Antiquity 2015), an object seen in a number of Swedish rock paintings and carvings is understood to be a representation of the so-called oxhide shaped ingot of the eastern Mediterranean Minoan-Mycenaean Bronze Age culture.