Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia By Birgitta P. Hallager Abstract The date of the destruction of the palace at Knossos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean prehistory since the palace was excavated at the beginning of the 20th century. The excavator Arthur Evans argued for an LM II date as he presumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace destruction layers must have been written by the people who had produced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II period. After his death Evans’ date has been questioned, keenly debated and finally lowered to early LM IIIA:2. Nobody, however, has studied the amount and distribution of the latest pottery of LM IIIB date found in the palace, its connection to the inscribed tablets and its presence in the surrounding houses, town and cemeteries. The LM IIIB pottery in Knossos is here scrutinized through the Day and Note Books of the excavation, the original excavation reports in the Annual of the British School at Athens and the published sherds and complete vases. Finally the close connections between the two…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Perspectives on ancient Greece. Papers in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens Edited by Ann-Louise Schallin Abstract This volume presents current research related to Greek prehistory and Classical Archaeology and thus serves as a crosssection of the research strategies, which the Swedish Institute at Athens promotes. The topics relate to research, which span from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic times. The reason for putting this publication together is twofold: one aim is to publish the papers, which were put forward by a select number of Swedish scholars who were invited to give lectures at the Swedish Institute at Athens during the celebrations commemorating the Institute’s 60th anniversary on 10 May 2008. The second aim is to honour professor emeritus Robin Hägg, who was the director at the Swedish Institute at Athens from 1976 to 1994. This book thus consists of articles based on the lectures, which were held at the Swedish Institute celebrations on May 10 2008 and also of a number of articles by scholars who wished to celebrate Robin Hägg and who thus joined the venture. Contents Acknowledgements Ann-Louise Schallin | Introduction…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Encounters with Mycenaean figures and figurines. Papers presented at a seminar at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 27–29 April 2001 Edited by Ann-Louise Schallin & Petra Pakkanen Abstract This volume presents fourteen articles which discuss Mycenaean figurines from various points of view. They focus on different aspects of the figurines, elaborating on their function, contextual characteristics, production, use-life, classification, topography, and history of scholarship. The articles are based on papers given at a workshop at the Swedish Institute at Athens in April 2001 entitled ‘Cultic Space and Mycenaean Figurines’. The idea of having a workshop arose from the fact that several of the participants were involved at the time with the documentation of various figurine types from the so-called Potter’s Workshop at Mastos in the Berbati Valley in the Argolid. The number and variety of the Mycenaean figurines from Mastos is impressive, particularly as the excavation had covered only a small area. The excavator, Å. Åkerström, proposed that the site had a cultic function in addition to its role as a production centre. In order to better understand the characteristics and identity of Mastos, scholars were invited to discuss…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions and Eddy.se AB. The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania List of published volumes From the Geometric to the Modern Greek Period The Late Minoan IIIC settlement The Late Minoan IIIB:2 settlement The Late Minoan IIIB:1 and IIIA:2 Settlements The Late Minoan IIIA:1 and II Settlements Vol. 1, fasc. 1: The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania 1970–1987. From the Geometric to the Modern Greek Period. Text Edited by Erik Hallager & Birgitta P. Hallager Abstract This volume is the first in a series of seven, presenting the results of the Greek-Swedish Excavations in the Agia Aikaterini Square close to the harbour in the modern town of Khania, western Crete. The excavations, directed by Dr. Yannis Tzedakis and Dr. Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, were conducted during the years 1970-1987. With the exception of approximately 400 years during the Iron Age, the site at the Agia Aikaterini Square presents a continuous history of the town of Khania over a period of c. 5,000 years from the Final Neolithic period until modern times. The present volume deals with the most recent 3,000 years, i.e., the entire period…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Olof Vessberg dedicata Opuscula Atheniensia 11 Contents Pirhiya Beck, ‘The cylinder seal impressions from Megiddo, Stage V, and related problems’, pp. 1–16. Jerker Blomqvist, ‘The dialect of Epizephyrian Locri’, pp. 17–35. David Frankel, ‘The pot marks of Vounous – Simple clustering techniques, their problems and potential’, pp. 37–51. Erik Hallager, ‘Linear A and Linear B inscriptions from the excavations at Kastelli, Khania 1964–1972’, pp. 53–86. Pontus Hellström, ‘The asymmetry of the Pinacotheka – Once more’, pp. 87–92. Gunnel Hult, ‘Supplementary material from Kalpsidha Trench 9 in Cyprus, with an appendix by Jan Berggren’, pp. 93–118. Elisabeth Mossberg, ‘Sherds from Enkomi Tomb 5 and Ayios Iakovos Tombs 3 and 5’, pp. 119–128. Mikes Paidoussis & C.N. Sbarounis, ‘A study of cremated bones from the cemetery of Perati’, pp. 129–160. Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, ‘An Iron Age Macedonian bronze vessel in the Bomford Collection and the Iron Age pyxis shape’, pp. 161–175. Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, ‘Some notes on the new excavations on Asine’, pp. 177–183. Åke Åkerström, ‘More Canaanite jars from Greece’, pp. 185–192. Paul Åström, ‘A White Painted V animal shaped vase from Lapithos Tomb 702’, pp. 193–194. Lena Åström, ‘The published writings…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia 10 Contents Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, ‘Excavations at Chania 1969’, pp. 1–7. Paul Åström & Hakon Hjelmqvist, ‘Grain impressions from Cyprus and Crete’, pp. 9–14. Erik Tholander, ‘Evidence of the use of carburized steel and quench hardening in Late Bronze Age Cyprus’, pp. 15–22. Vassos Karageorghis, ‘A pair of bronze blinkers from Cyprus in the National Museum, Copenhagen’, 23–24. Paavo Roos, ‘The rock-tomb doors of the Lyco-Carian borderland’, pp. 25–30. Paavo Roos & Peter Herrmann, ‘Zusätzliches zum südöstlichen Karien’, pp. 31–40. Robin Hägg, ‘Protogeometrische und geometrische Keramik in Nauplion’, pp. 41–52. P.M. Fraser & T. Rönne-Linders, ‘Some more Boeotian and West Greek tombstones’, pp. 53–83. Tullia Rönne-Linders, ‘A Hellenistic tombstone in the Ashmolean’, pp. 85–90. Bibliographical information Opuscula Atheniensia 10 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen, 4°, 18), Jonsered 1971. ISSN 0586-0539. ISBN 9789185086016.