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ARTICLES | 2016

Central ceiling and roof supports in Early Minoan II architecture

J. W. Shaw Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (2016): 51-69

This article focuses on some central supporting walls one can see in certain buildings at Early Minoan Hagia Triadha, Fournou Korifi (Myrtos) and Vasiliki. The walls, which have Π-, C-, and L- shapes, have been viewed as central ceiling/roof supports.

Truth lies in details: identifying an apiary in the miniature wall painting from Akrotiri, Thera

Irini Papageorgiou Annual of the British School at Athens 111 (2016): 95-120

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One of a number of enigmatic depictions in the Aegean iconography of the second millennium bce is the structure painted on the south wall of the Miniature Frieze from the West House at Akrotiri, Thera. This structure covers the slope of a hill and consists of two vertical blue bands on its western edge and four horizontal blue bands, all with features indicating masonry construction.

RA-PI-NE-U. Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday

Edited by Jan Driessen Louvain

RA-PI-NE-U. Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday This volume, in honour of one of the Odysseuses in Aegean archaeology, Professor Robert Laffineur, comprises a combination of papers presented during a seminar series on recent developments in Mycenaean archaeology at the Université de Louvain during the academic year 2015-2016. These were organised within the frame of the ARC13/18 - 049 (concerted research action) “A World in Crisis?”.

Staging Death. Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Edited by Anastasia Dakouri-Hild & Michael J. Boyd Berlin/Boston

Staging Death. Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of ‘deathscapes’: how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time.

Cretomania. Modern Desires for the Minoan Past

Edited by Nicoletta Momigliano & Alexandre Farnoux London/New York

Cretomania. Modern Desires for the Minoan Past Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public.

The Pottery from Dhaskalio

Peggy Sotirakopoulou Cambridge

The Pottery from Dhaskalio This volume treats in detail the pottery from the settlement on the islet of Dhaskalio, whose excavation is described in Volume I of the series. Much of the importance of this material lies in the undisturbed stratigraphy of the settlement, a fact that allowed for the recognition of three successive phases of occupation of the site with considerable ceramic continuity between them, as well as for safe inferences about its chronology, with wider implications for the later Εarly Βronze Αge of the Cyclades.

Phantom Trojans at the Dardanelles?

Frank Kolb Talanta XLVI-XLVII (2014-2015): 27-50

The assumption that a Trojan War took place in the so-called Troas at the Dardanelles depends on the belief that there once existed a population called Troes in this region, as the Ilias maintains. However, the Troes in the Ilias do not carry Anatolian, but only Greek and Thracian or Illyrian names; there is no Trojan identity.

The Wanassa and the Damokoro: a new interpretation of a Linear B text from Pylos

Jorrit M. Kelder & Marco Poelwijk Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56 (2016): 572-584

This paper aims to highlight a number of problems involved with current interpretations and identifications of persons in Ta 711, a Linear B tablet from the Mycenaean palace of Pylos, which records a number of objects that were presented on the occasion of the appointment of a da-mo-ko-ro.