Artemis Karnava

University of Crete | UOC · Department of History and Archaeology

Ege Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Bölümü tarafından organize edilen " Antik Çağda Doğu Akdeniz'de Zeytinyağı ve Şarap Üretimi " başlıklı Uluslararası Sempozyum 17-19 Kasım 2011 tarihleri arasında Urla/İzmir'de gerçekleştirilmiştir. 12 ülkeden toplam 25 bildirinin sunulduğu iki günlük sempozyumun sonunda Akdeniz tarımı ve ekonomisinin en önemli unsurlarınd...

A neglected aspect of ‘miniaturization’ is the development of the so-called ‘pictographic’ or ‘iconographic’ writing systems. ‘Picture-writing’ is the term used to describe the beginnings of various scripts, whereby the initial inspiration for the visual rendering of the signs is suggested to have been an array of tangible objects, or parts thereof...

Catalogue entry on a Cypro-syllabic inscription on a bronze bowl.

A fragmentary, marked loomweight from Telos in the Dodecanese, dating to the LC I period.

Archaeology can track the connectivity of ancient lands through the mobility of objects. Both incoming and outgoing objects tell the story of contact, demand, commercial ties and cultural encounters. It is with this view that this paper examines inscribed pottery found in tombs of the 5th–4th centuries BC in the extensive necropoleis of Marion in n...

The time period in Greek prehistory defined as the ‘Bronze Age’ lasted roughly two millennia. From the later part of the period, the 2nd millennium BC, we have both texts and other material culture remains as sources of evidence for a discussion on how time was perceived, defined, and even administered. Time in human terms is understood and calcula...

For the edition of the corpus of Cypriot syllabic inscriptions of the 1st millennium BC, IG XV 1,1, which was published in 2020, a close collaboration between epigraphy and numismatics was inaugurated by the authors of the present paper. The fruits of this collaboration can be seen in the coin sections of the corpus (IG XV 1, 85-92, coins of Amatho...

A topic that recently caused a public debate in Greece is an administrative reform envisaged by the incumbent government; the reform regards the transformation of a number of public, state-run archaeological museums to legal entities that would be managed by a government-appointed board of trustees. The discussion that ensued presents us with an op...

"The Late Bronze Age settlement at Kastro-Palaia, Volos and the inferences of Linear B writing in Greece: new data" This article discusses the Linear B evidence in Thessaly during the last twenty years. The recent discovery of fragments of Linear B tablets among the finds of Dimitrios and Maria Theocharis’ investigations at Kastro-Palaia in Volos...

Arthur Evans’ “Scripta Minoa I” (1909) is a monumental volume, in the sense that it is still, to this day, viewed and handled with awe, as one would do with a ‘monument’. It constitutes both a Cretan Hieroglyphic script documents corpus, as well as a synthetic study on this particular writing system and of writing in general, it continues therefore...

(GB) In 2014 the Ephorate of Antiquities of Rethymno started a systematic excavation at Kalo Chorafi in Mylopotamos under the direction of A. Tzigounaki. The site dates to MMIII-LMI and is part of a series of coastal sites in the north Cretan shore. Some 13 rooms that have been partially or completely excavated so far span to an area of 330 sq.m. a...

Excavations at Akrotiri in the years 1999-2002 yielded new evidence on the history of habitation at the site from the Neolithic period to the LC I/LM IA final phase of the settlement and uncovered new sectors of the LC I town at the north part of the as yet excavated area. This paper presents evidence from this newly-excavated north sector, with em...

In the months of May and June 2019, during the documentation of the primary material for the epigraphic corpus of Cypriot syllabic inscriptions, which is to be published in three fascicles as part of the series Inscriptiones Graecae (IG XV 1, 1-3), I documented the inscriptions found throughout the 20th century in the Rantidi temenos, a site in the...

During the 2019 excavation season of the University of Cyprus at the Hadjiabdoullah rempart in Palaepaphos an inscribed sherd (ostrakon) came to light. It bears a painted inscription in the Cypriot (Paphian) syllabary and appears to register different quantities of a specific product. The ostrakon is the first piece of evidence for the existence of...

Der Band IG XV umfasst die griechischen Inschriften der Insel Zypern, deren Zahl etwa auf 5.000 geschätzt wird. Knapp ein Drittel sind im sog. Kyprischen Syllabar geschrieben, das vom 8. – 3. Jh. v.Chr. in Gebrauch war. Diese Inschriften werden im ersten Teil (IG XV 1), die Alphabetinschriften im zweiten Teil (XV 2) des Corpus ediert; es sind jewei...

Fibre crafts are among the oldest technological practices of mankind. Although commonly associated with textile manufacture, twisted fibres in the form of threads have always had a wider range of use in everyday life. Strings and ropes constitute a humble but essential category of fibre products deriving from the same technology and organic matter...

The first volume examines Akrotiri stratigraphy and chronology, the typology and iconography of local and imported pottery and dedicates a section to ceramic weaving equipment and an inscribed loomweight. The second volume presents the catalogue of selected ceramic material by chronological phase and findspot, plates and drawings.

(full text downloadable from the links provided) https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/cms/cmsseries/volumessale.html https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/detail_object/o:1267#?page=1&pagesize=10 http://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/372 This monograph contains the primary publication of the seals (S1–S16), sealings (N1...

Ομιλία, colloquium τομέα Αρχαιολογίας τμήματος Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΑΠΘ

Questo manuale intende offrire un quadro aggiornato delle conoscenze nel campo dell'epigrafi a micenea. Nato dalla collaborazione di un gruppo di spe-cialisti di varie università e centri di ricerca, contiene un'introduzione alla scrit-tura e alla lingua dei testi micenei e un'analisi dettagliata dei principali docu-menti in lineare B, suddivisi pe...

Chronika 67 for 2012

A five-year inter-disciplinary project was initiated in 2009, aiming at the study, re-evaluation and publication of the archaeological evidence from the excavations of D.R. Theocharis in 1956-1951 in the settlement of «Kastro-Palaia». The project focused on the Late Bronze Age remains of a diachronic archaeological site situated at the historical c...

This paper focuses on the diachronic uses of travertine for building purposes at the archaeological site of “Kastro - Palaia” in the city of Volos (Thessaly, Greece). The term travertine refers to a rock type which constitutes a compact crystalline natural variety of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). This rock was identified as a building material in cons...

We present several crucible fragments from Bronze Age contexts in Volos, Greece, linked to a Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean) palace workshop and its predecessor building. Two of the crucibles have side sockets for manipulation, and all are internally fired. Chemical analyses of metallurgical remains from within the crucibles indicate the range of alloy...