It has long been acknowledged that the administrations of the ancient Near East provide important comparanda when considering the workings of the Mycenaean bureaucracy.
Matthew Haysom in Matthew Haysom & Jenny Wallensten (eds), Current approaches to religion in ancient Greece. Papers presented at a symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17-19 April 2008 (Stockholm, 2011): 95-110.
Scholarship on Cretan religion has always emphasized the islands oddity. It emerges from the literature as a land of suckling and dying gods, prehistoric practices, and tribal initiation rites.
Η λευκότητα και η απαλή υφή του ελεφαντόδοντου αλλά και η δυσκολία ανεύρεσης του τύπου το καθιστά πολύτιμο, πρέπει να ήταν οι παράγοντες που οδήγησαν από νωρίς στη χρήση του για την κατασκευή πολυτελών αντικειμένων από τους τεχνίτες του Αιγαίου.
In the heart of Aetolia, a wide mountain plain stretches out at the northeast of Lake Trichonis. At its eastern edge, on the verge of the Megalakkos height lies the site of Thermos. Thermos is known in history as a religious and political centre of the Aetolian League, an outcome of processes going back centuries.
Αδιαμφισβήτητα, η περιφέρεια του ΝΑ Αιγαίου είχε τον δικό της ξεχωριστό ρόλο στη μυκηναϊκή επέκταση προς τούς εμπορικούς σταθμούς της ΝΑ Μεσογείου. Οι Μυκηναΐοι χρησιμοποίησαν την περιοχή αυτή ως έναν ενδιάμεσο σταθμό στον θαλάσσιο δρόμο προς την Κύπρο και την ακτή της Συρίας-Παλαιστίνης. Η Ρόδος, ιδιαιτέρως, λόγω της γεωγραφικής θέσης της και της γειτνίασής της με τα εμπορικά λιμάνια της μικρασιατικής ακτής προσέλκυσε από νωρίς το ενδιαφέρον των μυκηναϊκών κέντρων της ηπειρωτικής Ελλάδας.
Katie Demakopoulou & Olga KrzyszkowskaΑρχαιολογική Εφημερίς 148 (2009): 85-95.
Systematic research over the past 25 years has revealed that hippopotamus ivory was used in the Aegean from pre-palatial times until the late Mycenaean period. In addition to finished objects made from this material, parts of tusks have been recovered at Knossos, Thebes and Mycenae.
E.-M. Wild, W. Gauss, G. Forstenpointner, M. Lindblom, R. Smetana, P. Steier, U. Thanheiser & F. WeningerIn M.B.H. Breese, L.E. Rehn & C. Trautmann (eds), Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Rome, Italy, September 14-19, 2008, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 268 (2010): 1013-1021.
Aegina Kolonna, located in the center of the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Mediterranean (Greece), is one of the major archaeological sites of the Aegean Bronze Age with a continuous stratigraphic settlement sequence from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.
Because the history of human life is about ways of inhabiting the world, geoarchaeology should play a central role in the archaeological program and cannot be reduced to a mere subspecialty of archaeology with its own autonomous theories and concerns. Hence there is a pressing need for theorizing; geoarchaeology cannot ignore nearly five decades of theoretical debates in archaeology.
Mario BenziAnnuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene LXXXVII (2010): 157-168.
One the most conspicuous innovations marking the end of the Late Bronze Age (LH IIIB late-IIIC) in the Aegean is the sudden appearance and growing popularity of bronze objects of Italian/European origin and/or influence.
Anna SacconiAnnuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene LXXXVII (2010): 209-214.
L’ École Française d’ Athènes a fouillé deux sanctuaires du Ier millenaire sur le Ptoion : le sanctuaire du héros Ptoios situé sur la butte de la colline de Kastraki pres de Karditza, à quelque 2 km de la ville d’Akraiphia, fouillé par P. Guillon. et le sanctuaire d’Apollon Ptoios au lieu dit Perdikovrysi (nom qui en grec moderne signifie ‘source des perdrix’), à 1500 m de distance de l’héroon, fouillé par M. Holleaux.
Jack L. DavisAnnuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene LXXXVII (2010): 133-145.
By the start of WWII, members of ASCSA had long been committed to public service in Greece, especially as it concerned the needs of refugees and the victims of disasters. In 1918-1919, Edward Capps, professor of Classics at Princeton University and newly elected Chair of the Managing Committee of ASCSA, took temporary leave from the latter post to lead a Red Cross mission to Greece.
Ann-Louise SchallinAnnuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene LXXXVII (2010): 147-155.
It all started in 1926 when Axel W. Persson and Otto Frodin conducted excavations at Asine. The Asine excavations had been initiated by the Crown Prince of Sweden, Gustaf Adolf, who visited the site in 1920 and was taken in by the beautiful setting. At the time, French archaeologists had already done preliminary work here.
Moritz KiderlenArchäologischer Anzeiger 2010/1: 91-104.
Bronze tripods were particularly suitable as a means of formulating social status since they were one of the most prestigious types of movable items and because of their character as a exchange item with a value easy to assess. Offerings of bronze tripods occur by no means in all (Proto-)Geometric sanctuaries but only in a few selected ones, and there often in abundance.
Classical Cretan states are known to have had an unusual and distinctive character, contrasting markedly with that of their central Greek peers. Yet the histories of the latter have tended to dominate our understanding of the polis form. The factors contributing to this difference, and to the whole process of state emergence in Early Iron Age-Archaic Crete, have not been much analysed, restricting our understanding of the origins of the earliest consensualist political structures.
C. Cohen, J. Maran & M. VettersArchäologischer Anzeiger 2010/2: 1-22.
The subject of this contribution is the fragment of an ivory rod with six cuneiform signs that was found in 2002. The rod came to light in a destruction layer dating to LH III B Final within a workshop for skilled crafting inside Building XI which is situated in the northernmost part of the Lower Citadel of Tiryns.
