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Taking Home Agamemnon. The Casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae

Jan Driessen & Tina Kalantzopoulou Louvain 2024

Taking Home Agamemnon. The Casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae The Lion Gate is an icon, a piece of art more than 3300 years old, representing the glory of Mycenaean Greece. Preserved in situ, it has passed through time and circumstance, witnessing its own civilisation fail and many others flourishing since. Often considered as an emblem for the royal house of Mycenae, it is the only surviving piece of large-scale sculpture of the Greek Bronze Age.

LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia

Birgitta P. Hallager Stockholm 2025

LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia The date of the de­struc­tion of the palace at Knos­sos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean pre­his­tory since the palace was ex­ca­vated at the be­gin­ning of the 20th cen­tury. The ex­ca­va­tor Arthur Evans ar­gued for an LM II date as he pre­sumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace de­struc­tion lay­ers must have been writ­ten by the peo­ple who had pro­duced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II pe­riod.

The Lady of Pottery. Ceramic Studies Presented to Penelope A. Mountjoy in Acknowledgement of Her Outstanding Scholarship

Anna Lucia D’Agata & Peter Pavúk (eds) Rome 2023

The Lady of Pottery. Ceramic Studies Presented to Penelope A. Mountjoy in Acknowledgement of Her Outstanding Scholarship It was during a conference dinner in Rome, a few years ago, that we started talking about a collective volume in honour of Penelope Mountjoy that now we can hold in our hands. Being a scholar of an indisputable quality, which transcends time and space, this volume does not intend to celebrate a special anniversary, but rather our honoree’s extraordinary and enduring contribution to Aegean archaeology.

Εικόνα και Αρχαιολογία: Το παράδειγμα της προϊστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής στην Ελλάδα

Giorgos Vavouranakis Athens 2021

Εικόνα και Αρχαιολογία: Το παράδειγμα της προϊστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής στην Ελλάδα Το παρόν βιβλίο αναδεικνύει τις εικόνες ως μεθοδολογικά σύνθετα ερευνητικά εργαλεία μελέτης της προϊστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής στην Ελλάδα. Εξετάζονται 200 και πλέον τελικές δημοσιεύσεις ανασκαφών προϊστορικών αρχαιολογικών θέσεων από την πρώτη ανασκαφή του Heinrich Schliemann στις Μυκήνες το 1876 μέχρι σήμερα.

The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents

Emmett L. Bennett Jr., José L. Melena, Dimitri Nakassis, Jean-Pierre Olivier & Thomas G. Palaima (eds) Columbus 2025

The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. IV. The Inscribed Documents In 1939, on the first day of excavation on a hill in western Messenia, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace that he called The Palace of Nestor. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language.

KO-RO-NO-WE-SA. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies

John Bennet, Artemis Karnava & Torsten Meißner (eds) Rethymon 2024

KO-RO-NO-WE-SA. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies As editors and organisers, we were gratified to note a good number of early- and mid-career scholars among those contributing to this volume, and even more early-career scholars and students had expressed an interest in attending the meeting itself, leaving the editors in no doubt that interest in Mycenaean, and indeed Aegean studies more widely, is unbroken and continues to attract the intellectual attention of rising academics in a large number of disciplines.

ΚΑΤΑΓΕΙΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ

Evyenia Yiannouli Athens 2024

ΚΑΤΑΓΕΙΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΣ Το έργο αυτό αποτελεί συστηματική μελέτη των απαρχών της οίκησης του Ελλαδικού Χώρου, από τις πρωιμότερες διαθέσιμες μαρτυρίες την Μεσολιθική έως και την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού (9η - 3η χιλιετία π.Χ.), συνεκτιμώντας ανάλογα δεδομένα από την ευρύτερη Ανατολική Μεσόγειο (κυρίως 14η χιλιετία π.Χ. κ.ε.), Εγγύς Ανατολή, Μεσοποταμία, Ανατολία, Πόντος - Κασπία, Αίγυπτος - Αφρική.

Phylakopi, Melos, 1896–99: The Finds in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

R. L. N. Barber (ed.) London 2024

Phylakopi, Melos, 1896–99: The Finds in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens The site of Phylakopi on Melos occupies a special place in the prehistory of the Aegean Bronze Age. The first work there by the British School at Athens in 1896–99 (there were two further campaigns, in 1911 and 1974–77) was memorably described by Carl Blegen as ‘the first really serious effort to understand stratification, the first really good excavation in Greece’. The Field Director, Duncan Mackenzie, kept detailed day-to-day records of the work, later applying methods developed on Melos to the excavation of Knossos.

Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces

Reinhard Jung and Eleftheria Kardamaki (ed.) Vienna 2022

Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces The Late Bronze Age Mycenaean palaces in southern and central Greece stood at the head of the earliest state system on the European continent. The authors, all leading scholars in Bronze Age research and often engaged in excavating the palace sites themselves, focus in their contributions on the most recent progress in pottery studies, in order to arrive at precise relative chronological dates of the destruction events. The investigated archaeological sites range from Crete in the south to the Peloponnese with the palaces of Pylos, Ayios Vasileios, Mycenae and Tiryns and further north to central Greece with the palace of Thebes, while contemporary sites on Cyprus and in Syria are taken into consideration as well.

Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place

Chrysanthi Gallou Oxford 2020

Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day.

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece. Proceedings of the International Conference, Rethymno 29-30 May, 2015

Edited by Apostolos Sarris, Evita Kalogeropoulou, Tuna Kalayci & Lia Karimali Michigan 2017

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece. Proceedings of the International Conference, Rethymno 29-30 May, 2015 The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past.

Boeotia Project, Volume II: The City of Thespiai. Survey at a Complex Urban Site

John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Slapšak & Antony Snodgrass Cambridge 2017

Boeotia Project, Volume II: The City of Thespiai. Survey at a Complex Urban Site Few major Classical cities have disappeared so completely from view, over the centuries, as Thespiai in Central Greece. Only the technique of intensive field survey, carefully adapted to a large urban site and reinforced by historical investigation, has made it possible to recover from oblivion much of its life of seven millennia.

From Maple to Olive: Proceedings of a Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece. Athens, 10–11 June 2016

Edited by David W. Rupp & Jonathan E. Tomlinson Athens 2017

From Maple to Olive: Proceedings of a Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece. Athens, 10–11 June 2016 In the 1990s, there were times when it appeared as though the then Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens would not see the light of the new millennium. In 2015, with the now Canadian Institute in Greece’s 40th anniversary of its official recognition as one of the foreign archaeological schools and institutes by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture fast approaching, the authors thought it would be appropriate to celebrate this achievement with a colloquium.