Description
Book SynopsisKe-ra-me-ja is a woman's name that appears on a Linear B tablet from Knossos. It means "potter" (Κεράμεια, from Greek κέραμος, "potter's clay") and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine's scholarly pursuits: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way. The intellectual content of the essays presented to her in this volume demonstrate not only that her research has had a wide-ranging influence, but also that it is a model of scholarship to be emulated.
Table of ContentsKE-RA-ME-JA: CERAMIC STUDIES
1. Late Helladic I Revisited: The Kytheran Connection, Oliver Dickinson
2. Wine, Women, and Song...The LH IIIA:2 Kylix at Petsas House, Mycenae, Kim S. Shelton
3. Potted at the Palace: A Reanalysis of Late Helladic III Pottery from the Palace of Nestor by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Michael L. Galaty
4. A Very Underestimated Period: The Submycenaean Phase of Early Greek Culture, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy
5. The Canaanite Transport Amphora within the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A 2013 Perspective on a Frequently Changing Picture, Jeremy B. Rutter
TA-RA-SI-JA: INDUSTRY AND CRAFT SPECIALIZATION: 6. The Emergence of Craft Specialization on the Greek Mainland, William A. Parkinson and Daniel J. Pullen
7. Pylos Tablet Vn 130 and the Pylos Perfume Industry, Thomas G. Palaima
8. Voicing the Loom: Women, Weaving, and Plotting, Marie-Louise Nosch
9. Chariot Makers at Pylos, Robert Schon
I-JE-RE-JA: RELIGION AND ICONOGRAPHY
10. The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion, Joann Gulizio and Dimitri Nakassis
11. Beehives and Bees in Gold Signet Ring Designs, Janice L. Crowley
12. Gifts to the Goddesses: Pylian Perfumed Olive Oil Abroad? Lisa M. Bendall
13. Offerings for the Wanax in the Fr Tablets: Ancestor Worship and the Maintenance of Power in Mycenaean Greece, Susan Lupack
14. "Snakes" in the Mycenaean Texts? On the Interpretation of the Linear B Term e-pe-to-i, Carlos Varias García
TI-MI-TI-JA: PYLOS AND MESSENIA
15. The Development of the Bronze Age Funerary Landscape of Nichoria, Michael J. Boyd
16. The Varying Place of the Dead in Pylos, Joanne Murphy
17. Working the Land: ka-ma Plots at Pylos, Stavroula Nikoloudis
18. "Re-excavating" the Palace of Nestor: The Hora Apotheke Reorganization Project, Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis
WA-NA-KA-TE-Ra: WRITING AND ADMINISTRATION
19. The Birth of Administration and Writing in Minoan Crete: Some Thoughts on Hieroglyphics and Linear A 251, Massimo Perna
20. Signs of Writing? Red Lustrous Wheelmade Vases and Ashkelon Amphorae, Nicolle Hirschfeld
21. O-no! Writing and Righting Redistribution, John Bennet and Paul Halstead
22. Two Personal Names (Dative me-to-re-i and o-po-re-i) and a Place Name (Directive me-to-re-ja-de) in Mycenaean Thebes, José L. García Ramón
23. Considering the Population Statistics of the Sheep Listed in the East-West Corridor Archive at Knossos, Richard Firth
24. Homer and Mycenae: 77 Years Later, Carol Thomas
