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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.