La Diosa de las serpientes de Cnoso –vestida con su falta de volantes y su corpino abierto y empu... more La Diosa de las serpientes de Cnoso –vestida con su falta de volantes y su corpino abierto y empunando sus serpientes con los brazos en alto– es probablemente una de las imagenes mas reconocibles de la Creta minoica. Se trata desde luego de una imagen muy poderosa, cuya contemplacion suscita fuertes emociones incluso a dia de hoy. Esto es algo sorprendente teniendo en cuenta que la religion de los minoicos, que se hallaba en su apogeo hace unos 4000 anos, es algo extremadamente remoto para una sociedad como la nuestra. Pero a traves de la figurilla de la Diosa de las serpientes, como a partir tambien de distintos restos materiales que los minoicos dejaron a nuestro alcance, podemos esbozar una imagen bastante precisa de como practicaron su religion. En buena medida nos puede resultar ajeno, puesto que quiza apele a emociones mas elementales de las que normalmente nos permitimos, pero aun asi despierta algo en nuestro interior. De este modo, al aprender sobre los minoicos y sus pract...
Mouseion: Journal of The Classical Association of Canada, 2021
After a long gap in the ceramic record following the twelfth century bc, ceramic materials dating... more After a long gap in the ceramic record following the twelfth century bc, ceramic materials dating from the eighth through the fourth century bc are documented in our excavations. This contribution presents for the first time the key deposits of Archaic and Classical material identified on the acropolis of Eleon from 2011 to 2014, including the evidence for the dating of the polygonal wall, the only monumental construction of this period identified so far at the site. Attention is also drawn to the large quantities of votive materials recovered from the ramped entryway and other areas of the site, which appear to attest to one or more cults operating on the acro polis during the sixth through the fourth century bc, if not earlier. Si le mobilier céramique n'est plus attesté après le XII e siècle av. J.C., il réapparaît dans nos fouilles à partir du VIII e et jusqu'au IV e siècle av. J.C. Cette contribution révèle pour la première fois le matériel des époques archaïque et classique mis au jour sur l'acropole d'Héléon entre 2011 et 2014. On y compte d'ailleurs des éléments permettant de dater le mur polygonal, la seule construction monumentale que le site a livrée jusqu'à présent pour cette période. Cette contribution s'intéresse également au matériel à vocation votive, retrouvé en abondance sur le site, notamment à proxi mité de la rampe d'entrée. On peut ainsi penser qu'au moins un culte fut pratiqué sur l'acropole d'Héléon entre le VI e et le IV e siècle av. J.C., voire plus tôt.
Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, 2016
Abstract:Ancient Eleon, adjacent to the modern village of Arma in the agricultural plain east of ... more Abstract:Ancient Eleon, adjacent to the modern village of Arma in the agricultural plain east of Thebes, is the most significant settlement site included in the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project surface survey. This article presents material collected from the systematic survey of the site between 2007 and 2009. The pottery and small finds suggest three major periods of occupation: the Late Helladic (LH), Archaic–Classical, and Medieval. Quantified analysis of the diagnostic material indicates that the most sustained activity occurred during the Mycenaean era, in both the palatial period (LH III A–B), when the political authority based in Thebes exerted a strong influence over the area, and during the post-palatial period (LH IIIC). In the latter period, there is no more evidence for a centralized political authority operating out of Thebes, and Eleon was presumably an independent entity.Résumé:L’ancienne Éléon, située en périphérie de l’actuel village d’Arma dans la plaine agr...
The names of deities, their sanctuaries, and the titles of religious functionaries, are often fou... more The names of deities, their sanctuaries, and the titles of religious functionaries, are often found within the Linear B tablets in association with economic resources. Many such tablets record the offerings that the palace sent to the religious sector. But there are several instances where we can surmise that the deities and religious personnel were not simply passive receivers of goods, but rather that they were actively managing the resources they are associated with on the tablets. For instance, I have proposed that the religious personnel found on the Pylos land tenure tablets were involved in cultivating their land and that they derived some of their support from the land’s produce. Here I will focus on what we can deduce concerning the economic role of the religious sector using the sheep tablets from Knossos and Pylos, the textile tablets of Thebes, and the bronze-working tablets of Pylos. Within these series, deities’ names appear in the same position, or administrative slot...
In April 2018 the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (BMWHI) sponsored a preliminary archaeo... more In April 2018 the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (BMWHI) sponsored a preliminary archaeological survey of shale miners’ settlements in the Jamison Valley near Katoomba NSW. Traces of dwellings in the area, including the foundation of an ‘overseer’s cottage’, can be seen from the Mount Solitary Track near Ruined Castle and historical records mention miners and their families living in the valley. This short report presents findings of the five-day survey, an overview of the 256 features identified and sets out some directions for future research.
La Diosa de las serpientes de Cnoso –vestida con su falta de volantes y su corpino abierto y empu... more La Diosa de las serpientes de Cnoso –vestida con su falta de volantes y su corpino abierto y empunando sus serpientes con los brazos en alto– es probablemente una de las imagenes mas reconocibles de la Creta minoica. Se trata desde luego de una imagen muy poderosa, cuya contemplacion suscita fuertes emociones incluso a dia de hoy. Esto es algo sorprendente teniendo en cuenta que la religion de los minoicos, que se hallaba en su apogeo hace unos 4000 anos, es algo extremadamente remoto para una sociedad como la nuestra. Pero a traves de la figurilla de la Diosa de las serpientes, como a partir tambien de distintos restos materiales que los minoicos dejaron a nuestro alcance, podemos esbozar una imagen bastante precisa de como practicaron su religion. En buena medida nos puede resultar ajeno, puesto que quiza apele a emociones mas elementales de las que normalmente nos permitimos, pero aun asi despierta algo en nuestro interior. De este modo, al aprender sobre los minoicos y sus pract...
Mouseion: Journal of The Classical Association of Canada, 2021
After a long gap in the ceramic record following the twelfth century bc, ceramic materials dating... more After a long gap in the ceramic record following the twelfth century bc, ceramic materials dating from the eighth through the fourth century bc are documented in our excavations. This contribution presents for the first time the key deposits of Archaic and Classical material identified on the acropolis of Eleon from 2011 to 2014, including the evidence for the dating of the polygonal wall, the only monumental construction of this period identified so far at the site. Attention is also drawn to the large quantities of votive materials recovered from the ramped entryway and other areas of the site, which appear to attest to one or more cults operating on the acro polis during the sixth through the fourth century bc, if not earlier. Si le mobilier céramique n'est plus attesté après le XII e siècle av. J.C., il réapparaît dans nos fouilles à partir du VIII e et jusqu'au IV e siècle av. J.C. Cette contribution révèle pour la première fois le matériel des époques archaïque et classique mis au jour sur l'acropole d'Héléon entre 2011 et 2014. On y compte d'ailleurs des éléments permettant de dater le mur polygonal, la seule construction monumentale que le site a livrée jusqu'à présent pour cette période. Cette contribution s'intéresse également au matériel à vocation votive, retrouvé en abondance sur le site, notamment à proxi mité de la rampe d'entrée. On peut ainsi penser qu'au moins un culte fut pratiqué sur l'acropole d'Héléon entre le VI e et le IV e siècle av. J.C., voire plus tôt.
Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, 2016
Abstract:Ancient Eleon, adjacent to the modern village of Arma in the agricultural plain east of ... more Abstract:Ancient Eleon, adjacent to the modern village of Arma in the agricultural plain east of Thebes, is the most significant settlement site included in the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project surface survey. This article presents material collected from the systematic survey of the site between 2007 and 2009. The pottery and small finds suggest three major periods of occupation: the Late Helladic (LH), Archaic–Classical, and Medieval. Quantified analysis of the diagnostic material indicates that the most sustained activity occurred during the Mycenaean era, in both the palatial period (LH III A–B), when the political authority based in Thebes exerted a strong influence over the area, and during the post-palatial period (LH IIIC). In the latter period, there is no more evidence for a centralized political authority operating out of Thebes, and Eleon was presumably an independent entity.Résumé:L’ancienne Éléon, située en périphérie de l’actuel village d’Arma dans la plaine agr...
The names of deities, their sanctuaries, and the titles of religious functionaries, are often fou... more The names of deities, their sanctuaries, and the titles of religious functionaries, are often found within the Linear B tablets in association with economic resources. Many such tablets record the offerings that the palace sent to the religious sector. But there are several instances where we can surmise that the deities and religious personnel were not simply passive receivers of goods, but rather that they were actively managing the resources they are associated with on the tablets. For instance, I have proposed that the religious personnel found on the Pylos land tenure tablets were involved in cultivating their land and that they derived some of their support from the land’s produce. Here I will focus on what we can deduce concerning the economic role of the religious sector using the sheep tablets from Knossos and Pylos, the textile tablets of Thebes, and the bronze-working tablets of Pylos. Within these series, deities’ names appear in the same position, or administrative slot...
In April 2018 the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (BMWHI) sponsored a preliminary archaeo... more In April 2018 the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (BMWHI) sponsored a preliminary archaeological survey of shale miners’ settlements in the Jamison Valley near Katoomba NSW. Traces of dwellings in the area, including the foundation of an ‘overseer’s cottage’, can be seen from the Mount Solitary Track near Ruined Castle and historical records mention miners and their families living in the valley. This short report presents findings of the five-day survey, an overview of the 256 features identified and sets out some directions for future research.
Questo manuale intende offrire un quadro aggiornato delle conoscenze nel campo dell’epigrafia mic... more Questo manuale intende offrire un quadro aggiornato delle conoscenze nel campo dell’epigrafia micenea. Nato dalla collaborazione di un gruppo di specialisti di varie università e centri di ricerca, contiene un’introduzione alla scrittura e alla lingua dei testi micenei e un’analisi dettagliata dei principali documenti in lineare B, suddivisi per argomento. Nel primo volume, la scrittura, le pratiche scribali e quelle amministrative sono presentate nel dettaglio e messe a confronto con quelle delle amministrazioni minoiche in “geroglifico” cretese e in lineare A, mentre i documenti sono contestualizzati sul piano archeologico e descritti dal punto di vista epigrafico, paleografico e archivistico. Nel secondo volume, dopo una descrizione dettagliata dei settori produttivi ricostruibili in base alla testimonianza delle fonti scritte, è proposta una sintesi sul mondo miceneo, relativa a geografia, società, economia e religione. Ogni capitolo del manuale è corredato da un’ampia bibliografia. Chiude il volume un glossario dei vocaboli micenei discussi nel testo. Due tomi indivisibili.
The handbook, which is the fruit of the collaboration of a group of specialists from various universities and research centres in Italy and abroad, aims to provide an updated overview about Mycenaean epigraphy. It contains an introduction to the writing and language of the Mycenaean texts and a detailed analysis of the main Linear B documents divided by topic. In the first volume the Linear B writing system and the Mycenaean scribal and administrative practices are analyzed and compared with their Minoan antecedents (Cretan Hieroglyphics and Linear A). The second volume contains a detailed description of the different production sectors as they can be reconstructed from the Linear B texts as well as a synthesis of some major topics relating to the Mycenaean world, such as geography, society, economy and religion. Each chapter is provided with an essential bibliography. The book ends with a glossary of the Mycenaean words.
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The handbook, which is the fruit of the collaboration of a group of specialists from various universities and research centres in Italy and abroad, aims to provide an updated overview about Mycenaean epigraphy. It contains an introduction to the writing and language of the Mycenaean texts and a detailed analysis of the main Linear B documents divided by topic. In the first volume the Linear B writing system and the Mycenaean scribal and administrative practices are analyzed and compared with their Minoan antecedents (Cretan Hieroglyphics and Linear A). The second volume contains a detailed description of the different production sectors as they can be reconstructed from the Linear B texts as well as a synthesis of some major topics relating to the Mycenaean world, such as geography, society, economy and religion. Each chapter is provided with an essential bibliography. The book ends with a glossary of the Mycenaean words.