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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

BOOK REVIEWS | 2017

LM III mortuary practices in West Crete: the cemeteries of Maroulas and Armenoi at Rethymnon

Eleni Papadopoulou Studi Micenei 3 (2017): 131-157

The examination of two burial assemblages is not limited to descriptions of data, but also addresses the functional role of the objects, which can lead to more interpretive approaches, based on a theoretical framework. Looking at the evidence of the two cemeteries, one can deduce that there was a specific burial programme, in which there was an accepted way of treating the dead.

Out of date, out of fashion: the change of dress of Aegean figures in the Egyptian 18th dynasty Theban tombs in the light of Aegean Bronze Age costume

Uroš Matić & Filip Franković Studi Micenei 3 (2017): 105-130

We examine the use of the breechcloth and kilt in the Bronze Age Aegean and argue that the affinity of the Aegean elite of Knossos towards wearing kilts in processions can be dated to LM II. This date corresponds to the change from breechcloth to kilt in the tomb of Menkheperreseneb with the terminus post quem in the 33rd regnal year of Thutmose III.

A lost Mycenaean fresco fragment re-examined

Emily C. Egan & Yannis Galanakis Studi Micenei 3 (2017): 83-104

Possible reconstructions of the fragment are presented, and its iconography is explored in light of current chronologies and known comparanda. It is argued that, while many details of the fragment’s biography remain ambiguous, the potential value of the find as a rare representation of a processing man in a mainland palatial context is substantial.

The Wall Paintings of the West House at Mycenae

Iphiyenia Tournavitou Philadelphia

The Wall Paintings of the West House at Mycenae The wall paintings discussed in this volume were originally discovered in 1958 by Niko-laos Verdelis during the excavation of the West House, one of the four buildings, also known as the “Ivory Houses,” south of Grave Circle B, at Mycenae.

Repair, recycle or modify? The response to damage and/or obsolescence in Mycenaean metal vessels during the Prepalatial and Palatial periods and its implications for understanding metal recycling

Stephanie Aulsebrook Studi Micenei 3 (2017): 7-26

Many repairs were apparently linked to the prioritisation of other production factors over the final vessel appearance. Generally vessels of precious metals and lead were not repaired, nor were certain copper-alloy vessel forms. It is suggested that these were typically recycled instead, with different chains of reasoning leading to the same choice.

Meaningful materials? Bone artefacts and symbolism in the Early Bronze Age Aegean

Valasia Isaakidou Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.1 (2017): 43-59

Early Bronze Age southern Aegean mortuary assemblages have yielded three distinctive classes of bone artefact. Comparison with contemporary unworked bone assemblages and contextually or formally related objects in other materials reveals complex cultural associations, the symbolic meaning of which is explored through heuristic use of ethnographic analogues.