Athyrmata : critical essays on the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt / edited by Yannis Galanakis, Toby Wilkinson, and John Bennet.
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ : critical essays on the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt edited by Yannis Galanakis, Toby Wilkinson, and John Bennet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galanakis, Ioannis, 1979- editor.

Wilkinson, Toby C., editor.

Bennet, John, 1957- editor.

Sherratt, Susan, honouree.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Civilization.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

iv, 274 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait, plans ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Critical essays on the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt

Athurmata

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction / Yannis Galanakis, Toby Wilkinson and John Bennet

A selected list of publications by Sue Sherratt (as of autumn 2014)

How and when did Tel Akko get its unusual banana shape? / Michal Artzy and Jamie Quartermaine

The integration of gold resources in the Byzantine economy: an open question / Evanthia Baboula

The "Sea Peoples" as an emergent phenomenon / Alexander A. Bauer

Pottery mobility, landscape survey and maritime activity: a view from Kythera / Cyprian Broodbank and Evangelia Kiriatzi

"In vino veritas": raising a toast at Mycenaean funerals / William Cavanaugh and Christopher Mee

Geraki in Laconia in Late Helladic times / Joost Crouwel

How warlike were the Mycenaeans, in reality? / Oliver Dickinson

Desecrating signs: "hieroglyphic" writing systems and secondary script inventions / Silvia Ferrara

Chronologies should carry a "use by" date: the archaeological life history of the "Beth Shan Stirrup Jar" / Elizabeth French

Arthur Evans and the quest for the "origins of Mycenaean culture" / Yannis Galanakis

Man/woman, warrior/maiden: the Lefkandi Toumba female burial reconsidered / Kate Harrell

The waz-lily and the priest's axe: can relief-beads tell us something? / Helen Hughes-Brock

"Working with the shadows": in search of the myriad forms of social complexity / Maria Iacovou

James Saumarez Cameron: a forgotten collector of Cretan seals / Olga Krzyskowska

The Post-Mycenaean dead: "damned if you do, damned if you don't" / Katie Lantzas

The spider's web: innovation and society in the Early Helladic "Period of the Corridor Houses" / Joseph Maran and Maria Kostoula

"Metal makes the wheel go round": the development and diffusion of studded-tread wheels in the Ancient Near East and the Old World / Simone Mühl

"For it is written": an experimental approach to the materiality and temporality of clay documents inscribed in Linear B / Tom Pape, Paul Halstead, John Bennet and Yannis Stangidis

A "wall bracket" from Kandia in the Argolid: notes on the local character and function of an "east Mediterranean" artefact of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age / Lorenz Rahmstorf

Reading post-palatial Mycenaean iconography: some lessons from Lefkandi / Jeremy B. Rutter

Functions and meaning of Aegean-type pottery at Tel Beth-Shean / Philipp W. Stockhammer

Ceramic developments in coastal Western Anatolia at the dawn of the Early Iron Age / Rik Vaessen

Beaker folk in Thrace: a metrological footnote / Michael Vickers

Rosso antico marble and the façade entablature of the Treasury of Atreus / Peter Warren

Feasts of clay? Ceramics and feasting at Early Minoan Myrtos: Fournou Korifi / Todd Whitelaw

Dressing the house, dressing the pots: textile-inspired decoration in the late 3rd and 2nd millennia BC east Mediterranean / Toby C. Wilkinson.

Notes:

Festschrift in honor of Dr. Elizabeth Susan Sherratt (née Dobson).

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781784910181

178491018X

OCLC:

894139720

Publisher Number:

99960567991