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ARTICLES | 2012

A Look at Early Mycenaean Textile Administration in the Pylos Megaron Tablets

Christina Skelton Kadmos 50 (2012): 101-121.

The significance of the sixteen Linear B tablets from the Pylos Megaron dealing with textiles and related topics has thus far largely been ignored, and with good reason - the tablets are fragmentary, and appear to make very little sense either on their own or as part of a larger whole.

Linear B pe-re-ke-u, pe-re-ke, and pe-re-ko: Contextual and Etymological Notes

Michael Franklin Lane Kadmos 50 (2012): 75-100.

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.

VRY S (4/4) 01 – The First Hieroglyphic Inscription from Western Crete

Erik Hallager, Eleni Papadopoulou & Iris Tzachili Kadmos 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.

La tablette HT 123: une comptabilité en linéaire A

Roland Cash & Evelyne Cash Kadmos 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.

Ku-ro, ki-ro et l’administration de Haghia Triada

Orazio Monti Kadmos 50 (2012): 15-31.

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.

New Perspectives on Household Archaeology

Edited by Bradley J. Parker & Catherine P. Foster Winona Lake, Indiana

New Perspectives on Household Archaeology The foundational tenets of household archaeology were established more than three decades ago by anthropological archaeologists seeking multiscalar approaches to the archaeological record. The study of the household as the basic unit of society and as a window to larger social, economic, and political change reflected in the everyday actions of individual people has since become integral to archaeological practice.

Bronze Age Trojan artefacts in Poland: some remarks

Dariusz Maliszewski Anatolian Studies 62 (2012): 61-68.

This article focuses on several overlooked assemblages of the Bronze Age artefacts from Troy brought to light by H. Schliemann and W. Dörpfeld. It briefly presents the complicated history and partition of duplicate artefacts from the Berlin collection and their donation to many European institutions after Schliemann’s death.

The search for the prehistoric marble sources in the Cyclades

Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis in Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M., Pilar Lapuente Mercadal & Isabel Rodà de Llanza (eds) 2012. Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marblesand Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009). [Documenta 23], Tarragona: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 287-299.

The use of marble in prehistory and in particular in the Early Bronze Age is clearly evident in the Greek Cycladic islands where the famous Cycladic figurines appeared and spread all over the Aegean. However, the absence of quarrying traces in that period and the abundance of marble outcrops in most of the Cycladic islands makes the creation of reference databases very difficult and hence the determination of provenance of prehistoric artefacts quite demanding.

From Archaeology to Archaeologies: The ‘Other’ Past

Edited by Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw & Eleni Stefanou Oxford

From Archaeology to Archaeologies: The ‘Other’ Past The idea for this volume emerged from critical self-reflection about diverse archaeological practices in a session presented at the 13th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting (Zadar, Croatia, 2007), in particular the conflicting relationship between the ‘mainstream’ and the ‘alternative’.

Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII[e] colloque international sur les textes égéens (Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010)

Edited by Pierre Carlier, Charles De Lamberterie, Markus Egetmeyer, Nicole Guilleux, Françoise Rougemont & Julien Zurbach Pisa/Roma

Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII[e] colloque international sur les textes égéens (Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010) Lors de sa réunion de Rome le 23 février 2006, le CIPEM a chargé la Franced’organiser en septembre 2010 le XIIIe colloque d’études sur les textes égéens. Cinquante-quatre ans après le colloque de Gif réuni à l’initiative de Michel Lejeune au lendemain du déchiffrement, qui avait rassemblé notamment Michael Ventris, John Chadwick et Emmett Bennett...

Alcune osservazioni sulla formula di libagione minoica

Francesco Soldani Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee VI (2012): 207-227.

La cosiddetta formula di libagione minoica, nota anche come formula di Arkhanes, rappresenta la migliore possibilità oggi a disposizione degli studiosi per indagare i misteri della lingua cretese ; essa, contrariamente a quanto avviene per i testi incisi sulle tavolette d’argilla, non solo costituisce con ogni probabilità una frase completa e articolata sintatticamente, ma soprattutto si lega a una sfera ben precisa, quella sacrale

Wool-spinning, bronze-working and the peculiarities of Mycenaean ta-ra-si-ja

Barbara Montecchi Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee VI (2012): 185-194.

From the introduction

It is by now well-established that the hypothesis that the Mycenaean term ta-ra-si-ja /tala(n)-sia/ indicates a production directly organized by the central administration for the supply of a certain quantity of raw materials weighed (wool and bronze) to be processed into finished products which would then be returned to the Palace. The term is attested in Pylos,