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BOOKS | 2012

Cyprus. An Island Culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period

Edited by Artemis Georgiou Oxford/Oakville 2012

Cyprus. An Island Culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th annual conference in Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2009), which was held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford from the 19th to the 21st of November 2009. POCA 2009 encompassed 24 presentations by postgraduate students and young researchers, coming from a number of institutions and universities in Europe and the United States.

Review of The Formation of Cyprus in the 2nd Millenium B.C.

Smith, J.S. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

Smith, J.S., 2012. Review of I. Hein (ed.), The Formation of Cyprus in the 2nd Millenium B.C. Studies in Regionalism during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages (Vienna 2009), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 368/Nov. (2012): 105-107.

Ladles and spoons from the neolithic settlement at Thermi, Central Macedonia (in Greek)

Μαρία Παππά In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 25-33

The excavation of the Neolithic settlement at Thermi provided a large number of ladles (36) and spoons (7), deriving mainly from the outer area of the habitation area, where extended pits are situated. The ladles vary in size, but in general do not have great differences in manufacturing.

Actas del Simposio Internacional: 55 Años de Micenología (1952-2007) [Faventia. Supplementa 1]

Edited by Carlos Varias Garcia Barcelona

Actas del Simposio Internacional: 55 Años de Micenología (1952-2007) [Faventia. Supplementa 1] This volume represents the proceedings of the colloquium “Actas del Simposio Internacional: 55 Años de Micenología (1952-2007)” held in Bellaterra (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on April 12-13, 2007. It contains important and up-to-date contributions to the wide topic of the Mycenaean tablets and their interpretation, ranging from epigraphy to lexica, and ending with anthroponymic data.

LH III burial rites in Elis (in Greek)

Κωνσταντίνος Νικολέντζος In P. Adam-Veleni & K. Tzanavari (eds), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου (Thessaloniki 2012): 55-68

The LHIII is the period of flourishing and economical growth of Elis. Extended burial contexts demonstrate that the Alpheios river and its tributaries were densely populated, indicating the process of collection and transport of goods to the mouth of Alpheios river in the Ionian sea, as well as towards the inland of the Peloponnese.

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

Ελένη Κωνσταντινίδη-Συβρίδη 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)

Αναστασία Χρυσοστόμου 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)

Θεόδωρος Ηλιόπουλος 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

Matthias Steinhart 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.