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BOOKS | 2013

Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium

Edited by Kathryn E. Piquette & Ruth D. Whitehouse London 2013

Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing - the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making.

Ανασκαφές Μυκηνών. IV. Η Οικία στις Πλάκες

Spyros Iakovidis Athens

Ανασκαφές Μυκηνών. IV. Η Οικία στις Πλάκες H οικία ευρίσκεται στην θέση «Πλάκες», στους ΝΔ. πρόποδες του λόφου του Προφήτη Ηλία, επάνω από τη δεξιά όχθη του ρέματος της Κοκορέτσας και σε απόσταση περίπου 200 μ. από την βόρεια πύλη της ακρόπολης των Μυκηνών, σε ένα σημείο όπου ο Steffen σημειώνει λείψανα αρχαίων θεμελίων και αναλημμάτων (Antike Grund- und Stützmauern), χωρίς αυτά πού επισημαίνει να συμπίπτουν με βεβαιότητα με την θέση της ανασκαφής (Karten von Mykene, Blatt I, Berlin 1884).

Cultures in Contact: From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.

Edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah B. Graff & Yelena Rakic New York

Cultures in Contact: From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. In conjunction with the 2008–9 exhibition Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a series of lectures brought together major international scholars in a variety of fields concerned with the worlds of the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean in the middle and late Bronze Ages.

Le sceau à «la figure féminine aux bras levés» du secteur Pi de Malia

Maria Anastasiadou & Maia Pomadère Bulletin 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.

Review of Ayia Irini: the Western Sector

Whitelaw, Τ. The Classical Review

Whitelaw, Τ., 2013. Review of †Schofield E., Ayia Irini: the Western Sector (Mainz am Rhein 2011), The Classical Review 63:02 (October 2013): 561-564.

La céramique helladique du sanctuaire d’Apollon Daphnéphoros à Eretrie (Eubée)

Sylvie Müller Celka, Tobias Krapf & Samuel Verdan Bulletin 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.

Stable Places and Changing Perceptions: Cave Archaeology in Greece

Edited by Fanis Mavridis & Jesper Tae Jensen Oxford

Stable Places and Changing Perceptions: Cave Archaeology in Greece Caves are considered as important elements of world cultural heritage, having been actively used by man, with significant scientific, historical, archaeological, and anthropological value. However, it is not only their unique value, regarding these aspects, that makes caves particularly important.

Des «lames de Karanovo» dans le site néolithique d’Uğurlu (île de Gökçeada, Turquie)

Denis Guilbeau & Burcin Erdogu Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 135.1 (2011) [2013]: 1-19.

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.

Konvergenz und Divergenz. Beiträge zur keramischen Regionalgruppe Rethymnon-Armenoi und der Keramikproduktion Kretas im 14. und 13. Jh. v. Chr

Fotini Nezeri Bonn

Konvergenz und Divergenz. Beiträge zur keramischen Regionalgruppe Rethymnon-Armenoi und der Keramikproduktion Kretas im 14. und 13. Jh. v. Chr The subject of the present study, which presents the results of my doctoral dissertation at the University of Heidelberg, is the local pottery of the province of Rethymnon, Crete in the Late Minoan III period. The primary aim is to pinpoint the exact location of the regional workshop, and to explore its relation to other ceramic workshops in Crete.

Imprint as punctuations of material itineraries

Carl Knappett in 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.