Potnia : deities and religion in the Aegean Bronze Age : proceedings of the 8th International Aegean Conference/8e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Göteborg, Göteborg University, 12-15 April 2000 / edited by Robert Laffineur and Robin Hägg.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Laffineur, Robert.

Hägg, Robin.

Conference Name:

International Aegean Conference (8th : 2000 : Göteborg University)

Series:

Aegaeum ; 22.

Aegaeum ; 22

Language:

English

French

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Congresses.

Bronze age.

Goddesses, Greek--Congresses.

Goddesses, Greek.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

496 pages, 108 pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bruxelles : Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique ; Austin : University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, 2001.

Language Note:

English, French, German and Italian.

Contents:

1. INTRODUCTION. Desperately seeking Potnia / C. Thomas and M. Wedde

A day in Potnia's life. Aspects of Potnia and reflected "mistress" activities in the Aegean Bronze Age / K. Kopaka

2. SANCTUARIES. Minoan peak sanctuaries : reassessing their oigins / K. Nowicki

Diachronic changes in Minoan cave cult / L. Tyree

Divinity and performance on Minoan peak sanctuaries / A. Peatfield

The Traostalos peak sanctuary : aspects of spatial organisation / S. Chryssoulaki

3. CULT PLACES. 'Naturkulträume' auf Kreta und Thera : Ausstattung, Definition und Funktion / V. Stürmer

From tholos tomb to throne room : perceptions of the sun in Minoan ritual / L. Goodison

Un nouvel examen des modèles réduits trouvés dans la grande tombe de Kamilari / D. Lefèvre-Novaro

A new late Minoan IIIC shrine at Halasmenos, East Crete / M. Tsipopoulou

The horseshoe-shaped and other structures and installations for performing rituals in funeral contexts in Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean times / M. Hielte-Stavropoulou

Political and religious aspects of architectural change on the Upper Citadel of Tiryns. The case of Building T / J. Maran

The economics of Potnia : storage in 'temples' of prehistoric Greece / E. Kyriakidis

Rethinking Mycenaean sanctuaries / G. Albers

4. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES. The household shrine in the House of the Rhyta at Pseira / P.P. Betancourt

The character of the Minoan goddess. New evidence from the area of Amari / A. Kanta and A. Tzigounaki

Archeologia, iconografia e culti ad Haghia Triada in età TM I / P. Militello

Religion and architecture : early LM IIIA2 buildings in the southern area of Haghia Triada / N. Cucuzza

A waste deposit from a LBA-shrine in Khania (?) / E. Hallager

Evidence for cult practice at Midea : figures, figurines and ritual objects / K. Demakopoulou and N. Divari-Valakou

Opferhandlungen des Alltagslebens im Heiligtum der Artemis Elaphebolos von Hyampolis in den Phasen SH IIIC - Spätgeometrisch / R. Felsch

Continuity of Bronze Age Cult at Olympia? The evidence of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age pottery / B. Eder.

5. CULT PRACTICE. New evidence for the practice of libations in the Aegean Bronze Age / E. Konsolaki-Yannopoulou

Minoan baetyls : between funerary rituals and epiphanies / V. La Rosa

Reverence for dead ancesters in prehistoric Crete / J. Soles

The 'sacred marriage' in Minoan religion and ritual / R. Koehl

The language of gesture in Minoan religion / C. Morris

The function of the plaque in the shrines of the Goddess with Up-Raised Hands / G. Gesell

The Minoan "snake goddess." New interpretations of her costume and identity / B. Jones

6. ARTS AND CRAFTS. Le sanctuaire représenté en fragments : un aspect de l'iconographie talismanique / E. Papatsaroucha

The Mycenae figures / E. French

Les personnages féminins des perles mycéniennes en verre bleu / S. Müller-Celka

7. ANIMALS AND CULT. Potnia/Potnios Aigon. On the religious aspects of goats in the Aegean Late Bronze Age / S. Hiller

Did the Mycenaeans believe in theriomorphic divinities? / D. Rousioti

The ram in cultic contexts? / B.P. Hallager

8. CONTEXT. The great goddess of Cyprus between the Aegeans and the "Eteocypriots" / V. Karageorghis

The mother(s) of all Philistines? Aegean enthroned deities of the 12th-11th century philistia / A. Yasur-Landau

Religion, society and ethnicity on Crete at the end of the Late Bronze Age. The contextual framework of LM IIIC cult activities / A.L. D'Agata

Reflections on the socio-political function of Mycenaean religion / H. Whittaker

Crisis cults on Minoan Crete? / J. Driessen

9. ICONOGRAPHY. The Potnia Theron : adaptation of a Near Eastern image / A. Barclay

Seeing is believing : reflections on divine imagery in the Aegean Bronze Age / R. Laffineur

A new (old) Mycenaean scene of worship / E. Rystedt

10. WRITTEN SOURCES. Po-ti-ni-ja : unité ou pluralité? / C. Boëlle

Potnia dans les tablettes mycéniennes : quelques problèmes d'interprétation / C. Trümpy

Potnia Aswiya : Anatolian contributions to Greek

religion / S. Morris

Religion at Pylos : the evidence of the Fn tablets / J. Killen

The economics of Potnia in the Linear B documents : palatial support for Mycenaean religion / L. Bendall

Religion in the room of the Chariot Tablets / J. Gulizio, K. Pluta and T.G. Palaima

La Terre Mère et le monde égéen / L. Godart

Les repas sacrés dans les textes mycéniens / A. Sacconi

Cloth in the cult / M.L. Nosch and M. Perna

Minoan deities in an Egyptian medical text / P. Haider

AFTERTHOUGHT. A Linear-B-inscribed 'herring' from Göteborg : an ichthyomorphic epiphany / T.G. Palaima.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

196239110