ΑΡΘΡΑ | 2023
The palatial megaron and upper story in the Palace of Nestor: Evidence for a new reconstruction
Hesperia 92 (2023): 43-110
This article examines a group of previously unpublished floor plaster fragments together with architectural and stratigraphic evidence from the Main Building of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Analysis of the plaster shows that the fragments formed part of the floor of upper-story rooms, which fell during the building’s structural collapse.Gray Minyan in the middle: Reconsidering central Greek and Cycladic Middle Bronze Age synchronisms
Hesperia 92 (2023): 1-42
An emerging understanding of Middle Helladic Gray Minyan pottery development in central Greece allows a reconsideration of relative synchronisms between the region and the Cyclades. Updated comparisons indicate that Ayia Irini period IV on Kea was resettled no earlier than the middle of Middle Helladic II in central Greece, not the beginning as previously presented.‘Heads’ of Thrones: Once More on Mycenaean se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 115-136
This article considers the interpretation of the Mycenaean terms se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi (Plural) and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re (Singular) that belong to the technical descriptive vocabulary of elaborate chairs (termed to-no /thornoi/) in the Linear B tablets of the Ta series from the palace complex of Pylos (c. 1200 BCE). The interpretation of the term as a compound of *se-re-mo- and -ka-ra is discussed.
A Pot-boiler at Pylos?
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 107-114
The paper seeks to show that the Pylos tablet Vn 130 does not relate to the work of unguent-boilers, i.e. makers of perfumed olive oil, in the various places listed on the record, as T. Palaima has argued in 2014, but instead deals with the collection/receipt by the palace of vessels produced by bronzesmiths in the places in question, as
‘Minoan’ or ‘Mycenaean’ Wine? Observations on an LM IIIA Inscribed Pithos from Knossos
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 99-106
This article discusses the GORILA KN Zb <36> and Zb <37> inscriptions which are now identified with the logograms incised on one of the pithoi from the Ninth West Magazine of the Knossos palace. Based on palaeographic observations we suggest that the pithos is not inscribed in Linear A but in Linear B.
Deciphering Kober’s Contribution to the Decipherment of Linear B
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 83-98
Alice E. Kober was an instrumental figure in the decipherment of Linear B, in that she discovered grammatical paradigms in the script that enabled her to begin the phonetic grid that was later so essential to Ventris’s decipherment. But more than 70 years after her untimely death, no one has ever been able to describe exactly how she made her
From Marking to Writing? A Picrolite Inscribed Plaque from Erimi in Cyprus
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 9 (2023): 9-30
This paper focuses on the possibilities inherent in a multi-scalar approach to the investigation of an inscribed picrolite plaque from Erimi (Cyprus), currently kept at the Iosephides collection. Results of macro- and micro-analyses allow for a preliminary interpretation of this unparalleled object in its background. A combination of different analytical data is discussed, including the morphological features and characteristics of