It has been widely accepted that the Linear B lemmata pe-re-ke-u, pe-re-ke, and pe-re-ko [reflect the Mycenaean verbal root found also alphabetic Greek πλέκω, πλέξις, πλοκή, πλόκος, πλόκανον, etc. However, there are both internal contextual and external “etymological” (i.e. historical phonological) obstacles to this interpretation.
Erik Hallager, Eleni Papadopoulou & Iris TzachiliKadmos 50 (2012): 63-74.
The Minoan peak sanctuary of Vrysinas is located on the peak of Agio Pneuma in the Vrysinas range, south of Rethymnon city. It is an elevated site (858 m. asl.) with high visibility from and of the surrounding area, and with lines of sight with to other local peak sanctuaries, notably Atsipadhes.
Roland Cash & Evelyne CashKadmos 50 (2012): 33-62.
Le corpus connu des textes disponibles en linéaire A est avant tout constitué par des documents de comptabilité. Il est fréquent qu’on puisse comprendre le sens général d’une tablette au vu de sa structure générale.
Le terme linéaire A ku-ro est attesté dans 29 tablettes, où il indique la somme (parfois erronée) des entrées d’une tablette ou, bien plus souvent, celle d’ une ‘section’ (qui peut aussi correspondre à la face a ou b) de la tablette concernée.
L’écriture syllabique linéaire A est utilisée dans l’Égée de l’âge du Bronze – essentiellement en Crète, mais aussi dans d’autres îles, sur le continent grec en Anatolie (on a même cru en trouver en Israël).
Maurizio Del Freo & Julien ZurbachBulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 135.1 (2011) [2013]: 73-97.
The work on a supplement to the Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A by L. Godart and J.-P. Olivier, which will include the inscriptions published since 1985, allows presenting the characteristics of this corpus from a new angle.
Maria Anastasiadou & Maia PomadèreBulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 135.1 (2011) [2013]: 63-71.
The article presents a three-sided Middle Minoan prism recovered in a Neopalatial context at Malia Sector Pi in 2007. The motifs on the three sides of the seal are of particular significance because of their scarcity in Protopalatial glyptic and the established comparanda.
Sylvie Müller Celka, Tobias Krapf & Samuel VerdanBulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 135.1 (2011) [2013]: 21-61.
In this paper, the authors examine the Bronze Age pottery fortuitously discovered in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Eretria. Some sherds were found in situ at the bottom of a deep test trench and some in secondary position in later Geometric levels.
The origins and the modes of development of the first farming communities in the North-eastern Balkans between the end of the seventh and the sixth millennia are still much discussed. The site of Uğurlu on the island of Gökçeada in the northeastern Aegean Sea sheds new light on this question.
Carl Knappettin Hahn Hans Peter & Weiss Hadas (eds), Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things. Shifting Context of Material Culture through Time and Space (Oxford 2013), 36-49.
In the film Alps, by avant-garde Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, a small circle of acquaintances (who call themselves Alps) decide to help those grieving the loss of a loved one by substituting for the deceased. One couple has lost their tennis-playing daughter to a car accident. The nurse who tends to her in her last days is a member of Alps and persuades the couple to let her fill in for their daughter, at least for a time, to ease their grief.
Joseph Maranin Hahn Hans Peter & Weiss Hadas (eds), Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things. Shifting Context of Material Culture through Time and Space (Oxford 2013), 147-169.
The archaeological treatment of intersocietal exchange has suffered from the diffusionist legacy of directing attention to the reconstruction of abstract flows of cultural traits, while neglecting changes in meaning brought about by the agency of the social actors who integrated such traits into local contexts.
Ellen AdamsBulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56:1 (June 2013): 1-25.
This paper explores how the human form is depicted, objectified and contextualized, in order to clarify the complex relationship between ‘representation’ and ‘reality’, and to investigate the various ways the body is bounded.
Marco Bettelliin Hartmut Matthäus, Norbert Oettinger & Stephan Schröder (eds) 2011. Der Orient und die Anfänge Europas. Kulturelle Beziehungen von der Späten Bronzezeit bis zur Frühen Eisenzeit [Philippika, Marburger alterumskundliche Abhandlungen 42]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 109-126.
Since the interrelation between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean is a historical phenomenon that lasted more than five centuries - a very long period in which crucial changes affected both areas - a refinement in comparing the two chronological sequences seems necessary.
J. N. Coldstream in Hartmut Matthäus, Norbert Oettinger & Stephan Schröder (eds) 2011. Der Orient und die Anfänge Europas. Kulturelle Beziehungen von der Späten Bronzezeit bis zur Frühen Eisenzeit [Philippika, Marburger alterumskundliche Abhandlungen 42]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 177-184.
One of the most exciting aspects of studying Greek Geometric pottery, of the tenth to eighth centuries BC, is its distribution over a very wide area, far beyond its centres of production. We find it exported over the entire Mediterranean and even beyond: to the east as far as Tell Halaf and Babylon, and to the west beyond the Pillars of Herakles to Huelva, the ancient Tartessos, on the Atlantic coast of Spain.
Susan Sherrattin Hartmut Matthäus, Norbert Oettinger & Stephan Schröder (eds) 2011. Der Orient und die Anfänge Europas. Kulturelle Beziehungen von der Späten Bronzezeit bis zur Frühen Eisenzeit [Philippika, Marburger alterumskundliche Abhandlungen 42]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 3-13.
It is probably true to say that the history of East Mediterranean and Aegean interaction goes back at least as far, and actually rather further, than the beginning of the Greek Neolithic, and that, although the nature of this interaction and the forms it took may have changed several times over the succeeding six millennia or so, it never stopped.
