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Book SynopsisRobert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Therefore, when assembling a volume to honor his retirement from Hunter College, contributing authors were asked to focus attention on this subject. Processions are a unique social phenomenon in that they engage large groups with a singular purpose or outcome, acting as a cohesive force in societies. Yet they are elusive both in Aegean art and texts, which has challenged the participants in this volume to approach the subject from various viewpoints, providing evidence of ritual and ceremonial places, pathways and practices, based on archaeological and, in one instance, textual evidence. Artistic depictions in a variety of media provide a means of identifying settings, participants and the possible roles they play, while specific ritual objects are the subject of some contributions, their context and imagery offering another means of enhancing our picture of processions. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of the volume.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Processions
Tributes
Robert B. Koehl: Publications
Crete
Processions Aplenty: From Elite Palatial Parades to Mass Population Pilgrimages in Middle and
Late Minoan Crete – Malcolm H. Wiener
Processions in Aegean Iconography III: Where did they Take Place? – Fritz Blakolmer
The Theatral Area of Knossos – Colin Macdonald
The Kilts on the ‘Cupbearer’ and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos – Bernice R. Jones and Valerie Bealle
Minoan Processions Leading to Marvelous Destinations at Mochlos – Jeffrey S. Soles
Dressed Bodies in Motion: Toward a Sensorial Understanding of Funerary Ritual in Prepalatial Crete – Cynthia S. Colburn
Dance or Procession? A Ritual Scene on a Fruit-stand from Protopalatial Phaistos, Crete – Luca Girella
Rhyton Clusters in Neopalatial East Crete: Identity and the Ceremonial Prerogatives of the House – Brian S. Kunkel
Reaper’s Rout or Mariner’s March? Reconsidering the ‘Harvester’ Vase from Ayia Triada – J. A. MacGillivray
Deimatic Display or Nature’s Apotropaia: The Meaning and Function of the Octopus Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean – Michele Mitrovich
From Deep Waters to High Places: Reassessing the Ceremonial Significance of Triton-shells at Neolithic Phaistos (Crete) – Simona V. Todaro
The Cyclades
The Armed Warriors Procession: 1000 Years of Iconographic Development – Philip P. Betancourt
Rhyta at Bronze Age Phylakopi on Melos – Jason W. Earle
Ocular Signs of Ecstatic Possession and Procession in Aegean Art – Karen Polinger Foster
Greek Mainland
Late Bronze Age Iklaina and Processional Architecture – Michael Nelson
Tribute from the Griffin Warrior at Pylos – Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker
Processions in non-palatial Contexts: Social Ambitions and Narrative Idioms in Mycenaean Greece – Iphiyenia Tournavitou
Processions, Participants, People, and the Palace: Musings from Fragments – James C. Wright
The Creature of the Rings: An Unusual Jug Rhyton from LH IIIC Tiryns – Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran, and Alkestis Papadimitriou
The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet – Thomas G. Palaima
Evoking the Deceased in Mycenaean Mortuary Ritual – Mary K. Dabney
‘… For at this Place the Sea Comes Nearest to Athens.’ Funerary Processions in Archaic Athens – Stella Chryssoulaki and Ioannis Pappas
Cyprus, Syria, the Levant, and Egypt
From Stasis to Repetition: Tracing Processional Movements in Prehistoric Cyprus – Eleni Mantzourani
Approaching Divinity in the Near East and the Aegean: Animals, Monsters, Demons, and Masked
Human Processions – Joan Aruz and Judith Weingarten
A Snapshot of a Victory Procession: A Winged Deity from Alalakh Wielding a Dagger – K. Aslıhan Yener
The Iron Age Adventures of the God with the Fenestrated Axe – Assaf Yasur-Landau
Offerings for Eternity: Egypt, Nubia, and the Puzzle of the Egyptian Faience Vessel from Alalakh – Morena Stefanova
A Courtly Affair: Proceeding from Keftiu and ‘all Islands in the Middle’ to the Theban Necropolis – Nisha Kumar
Italy
Clues of Bronze Age Processions in the Central Mediterranean – Marco Bettelli, Elisabetta Borgna and Sara Tiziana Levi
