RA-PI-NE-U

Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday

Jan Driessen

• Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9782390610427
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

This volume, in honour of one of the Odysseuses in Aegean archaeology, Professor Robert Laffineur, comprises a combination of papers presented during a seminar series on recent developments in Mycenaean archaeology at the Université de Louvain during the academic year 2015-2016. These were organised within the frame of the ARC13/18-049 (concerted research action) 'A World in Crisis?'To these are added a series of papers by friends of Robert Laffineur who were keen to offer a contribution to honour him foremost as a friend and scholar in his own right but also as editor of a respected international series founded by him - Aegaeum - and as the driving force and inspiration behind the biannual Aegean meetings that have travelled the world. Several papers within touch scientific domains close to Robert's heart while others present new excavations or new interpretations of known data.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• 1. Robert Laffineur, a Bio-Bibliography
• 2. Dimini: An Urban Settlement of the Late Bronze Age in the Pagasitic Gulf
• 3. Origins of the Mycenaean Lustrous Dark-on-Light Pottery Technology
• 4. The ‘Minoanisation’ of the Arts in LC I Akrotiri and LH I Mycenae: Similarities and Differences
• 5. Crafting Before and After the Collapse: Mycenaean Eleon in Boeotia
• 6. Consumerism, Debt, and the End of the Bronze Age Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean
• 7. The Brussels Mycenaean Gold Cup
• 8. Cylinder-Seal Impressions on Storage Vessels at Maa-Palaeokastro: Elucidating an Idiosyncratic Late Cypriot Mechanism
• 9. Pulp Fiction: The Sea Peoples and the Study of ‘Mycenaean’ Archaeology in Philistia
• 10. Mycenaean Terracottas from Funerary Contexts in Troezenia
• 11. Getting out of a Dead End in Final Palatial Crete: Applying Space Syntax Analysis to the Casa dei Vani Aggiunti Progressivamente at Haghia Triada
• 12. Against the Currents of History: The Early 12th c. BCE Resurgence of Tiryns
• 13. Spinning Gold and Casting Textiles
• 14. Two Linear B Traveling Inscriptions from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and the Impact of the Decipherment of Linear B on the Scholarly and Public Imagination
• 15. Technological Study and Interpretation of Rhomboid Accessories from Grave Circle A, Mycenae
• 16. Human Heads and Crawling Snakes: Ritual Vases in Postpalatial Mycenae
• 17. Glow in the ‘Dark’: A Gold Pendant from a Middle Helladic Settlement (Aspis, Argos)
• 18. A Picture is Worth a Thousands Words: Pictorial Pottery as a Marker for Socio-Economic Entanglements between the Coast and Hinterland
• 19. Marathon in the Middle and Late Bronze Age: New Evidence from an Old Excavation
• 20. Petsas House, Pottery Production, and the Mycenaean People in LH IIIA2
• 21. Connecting the Pieces: Egypt, Dendra, and the Elusive ‘Keftiu’ Cup
• 22. Foreign affairs. Diplomacy, Trade, War and Migration in the Mycenaean Mediterranean (1400-1100 BC)
• 23. Beyond the Versailles Effect: Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete
• 24. The Two Goddesses and the Formation of a Pantheon in Philistia
• 25. The Gournia Megaron