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Book SynopsisScholars of Bronze Age archaeology present papers that address aspects of social, political, religious and ritual significance in wall paintings, matters of chronology, regional trade and interaction, and Cretan architecture. Scholars of the Archaic, Classical and Roman periods explore issues of sculpture, architecture, pottery and dedications.
Table of ContentsBiography of Sara Anderson Immerwahr (Richard Liebhart); Bibliography of Sara Anderson Immerwahr (Rachel Frew). Part 1: Aegean Prehistory and the East. An Archaeology of Palatial Mason's Marks on Crete (Ian Begg); The Adoption of Pictorial Imagery in Minoan Wall Painting: A Comparativist Perspective (Charles Gates); Power, Privilege, and Landscape in Minoan Art (Anne P Chapin); The "Priest-King" Fresco from Knossos: Man, Woman, Priest, King, or Someone Else? (Maria C Shaw); Crocus Costumes in Aegean Art (Paul Rehak); Reconsidering the Room of the Ladies from Thera (Suzanne P Murray); From Knossos to Kavousi: The Popularizing of the Minoan Palace Goddess (Geraldine Gesell); Wanax to Wanax: Regional Trade Patterns in Mycenaean Crete (Halford W Haskell); The Early Mycenaean Lion Up to Date (Nancy R Thomas ); Some Observations on the "Zygouries" Kylix and Late Helladic IIIB Chronology (Patrick Thomas); Of Granaries and Games: Egyptian (Sarah P Morris); Stowaways in an Athenian Chest (John K Papadopoulos); In Search of Anatolian Apollo (Edwin L Brown); Ritual and Politics in Assyria: Neo-Assyrian Canephoric Stelae for Babylonia (Barbara N Porter ). Part II: The Classical World. Naming the Classical Style (Carol C Mattusch); Interlaced Fingers and Knotted Limbs: The Hostile Posture of Quarrelsome Ares on the Parthenon Frieze (Ann M Nicgorski); Classical Signs and Anti-Classical Signification in 4th Century Athenian Architecture (Rhys F Townsend); Family Portraits: Recognizing the Oikos on Attic Red-Figure Pottery (Robert F Sutton, Jr); For the Mother and for the Daughter: Some Thoughts on Dedications from Etruria and Praeneste (Nancy de Grummond); The Iconography, Typology and Interpretation of the Eastern Hadrianic Breastplate Type (Richard Gergel); Dedications of Roman Theaters (Mary C Sturgeon).
