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ARTICLES | 2022

The Sissi Genius lentoid: A lapis lacedaemonius seal from Final Palatial Crete

Diana Wolf

Hesperia 91 (2022): 351-384

A Final Palatial lapis lacedaemonius seal, here called the Sissi Genius Lentoid, was recovered during the 2018 excavation of the Court-Centered Building at Sissi, East Crete. The seal instantly drew attention because of its rare material and unique iconography that shows a Minoan genius flanked by the foreparts of two agrimia.

The Sissi Genius lentoid: A lapis lacedaemonius seal from Final Palatial Crete

Diana Wolf Hesperia 91 (2022): 351-384

A Final Palatial lapis lacedaemonius seal, here called the Sissi Genius Lentoid, was recovered during the 2018 excavation of the Court-Centered Building at Sissi, East Crete. The seal instantly drew attention because of its rare material and unique iconography that shows a Minoan genius flanked by the foreparts of two agrimia.

The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos: Construction, burial, and aftermath

Sharon R. Stocker, Calla McNamee, Salvatore Vitale, Panayiotis Karkanas & Jack L. Davis Hesperia 91 (2022): 211-250

The circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it.

Ceramic cooking dishes in the prehistoric Aegean: Variability and uses

Anastasia Dimoula, Zoi Tsirtsoni & Soultana Maria Valamoti Hesperia 91 (2022): 1-61

This article discusses the history of cooking dishes--namely, large, open and shallow, undecorated ceramic vessels--following their diachronic development from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (6th millennium to 8th century B.C.), and their synchronic distribution across the Aegean and the Balkans.

Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces

Reinhard Jung and Eleftheria Kardamaki (ed.) Vienna

Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces The Late Bronze Age Mycenaean palaces in southern and central Greece stood at the head of the earliest state system on the European continent. The authors, all leading scholars in Bronze Age research and often engaged in excavating the palace sites themselves, focus in their contributions on the most recent progress in pottery studies, in order to arrive at precise relative chronological dates of the destruction events. The investigated archaeological sites range from Crete in the south to the Peloponnese with the palaces of Pylos, Ayios Vasileios, Mycenae and Tiryns and further north to central Greece with the palace of Thebes, while contemporary sites on Cyprus and in Syria are taken into consideration as well.