Georgia Flouda

• PhD, University of Athens ( http://culture.academia.edu/GeorgiaFlouda )
• Head of Department at Greek Ministry of Culture

In traditional narratives of Minoan archaeology, the visual display of writing is usually overlooked. Nonetheless, recent cross-disciplinary studies on the materiality of writing have demonstrated that attention should be directed not only to the written messages of inscriptions, the signified, but also to the physical aspects of their material sup...

This paper aims to deduce episodes of the cultural biography of the inscribed bronze double axe from the sacred cave at Arkalochori in central Crete by focusing on its materiality and by examining the context of both its production and the reception of its undeciphered inscription. A discussion of the technicalities involved in the making of its fi...

The “Linear B pa-i-to Epigraphic Project” is an epigraphic and philological pilot project aimed at publishing a new critical edition of 94 Linear B tablets from Knossos, which deal with the name of the ancient town of Phaistos – pa-i-to. Our main goal is to develop new approaches to the study, the publication and the edition οφ this small corpus by...

The paper presents a previously undocumented group of 22 lithics held at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, which were recently identified as provenanced from the Mesolithic site of Smelroren in Norway. Their provenance is attested by a handwritten paper label that accompanied the assemblage, and further substantiated by three of these pieces pre...

Detailed analytical work based on mobile Raman microspectroscopy has been performed on a mortuary assemblage, comprising a group of 59 stone artifacts (vessels, implements and figurines) excavated in one of the richest burial sites in south-central Crete, Tholos tomb P at the Minoan site of Porti (ca. 2700–1700 BCE). Mineral identification was poss...

The paper titled "Cretan Hieroglyphic Writing as a System of Visual Encoding: Iconicity and Graphic Communication" explores the nature of Cretan Hieroglyphic, a logo-syllabic script used in ancient Crete, highlighting its role as a system of visual communication. The author examines how writing systems, in general, are based on visual codes that re...

The paper examines the sealed documents from the First Palace of Phaistos, focusing mainly on roundels and noduli, which were used as ‘mnemonic numeric devices’ used in parallel with a developed scribal administration. By exploring the materiality of the documents in their own context as well as any associations inferred from seal-use and annotatio...

This chapter uses archival testimonies to reconstruct the activities of the Kunstschutz [Art Protection] in German-occupied Crete during World War II. The Kunstschutz constituted the ‘Art Protection’ unit of the Wehrmacht and was founded in 1941 after the conquest of Crete. The analysis focuses on the historical backdrop of the unit’s establishment...

This chapter uses archival testimonies to reconstruct the activities of the Kunstschutz [Art Protection] in German-occupied Crete during World War II. The Kunstschutz constituted the ‘Art Protection’ unit of the Wehrmacht and was founded in 1941 after the conquest of Crete. The analysis focuses on the historical backdrop of the unit’s establishment...

In this paper Mycenaean palaeography is analysed from the perspective of the new digital technologies. The authors highlight the strengths and intrinsic weaknesses of Mycenaean palaeography performed on the basis of traditional 2D photographs and drawings. In the second part, the first results of the epigraphic, palaeographic and graphological stud...

Δ Α Ι Δ Α ΛΟΣ, στα ίχνη του μυθικού τεχνίτη. Κατάλογος έκθεσης 10 ΜΑΪΟΥ 2019 - 1 ΜΑΡΤIΟΥ 2020, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ηρακλείου, edited by S. Mandalaki (exhibition catalog entries).

This paper intends to document how an assemblage of 177 archaeological objects excavated in Troy in the nineteenth century became entangled within the historical circumstances of the era and Heinrich Schliemann’s continuous social movement. The circumstances that led to the donation of this Trojan collection of antiquities by Sophia Schliemann to t...

This paper considers the recruitment of young archaeologists into the German military on Crete and its impact upon the development of archaeological agendas during the period of the Third Reich. It explores – as a case study – the archaeological activity of August Schörgendorfer, an Austrian archaeologist, on German-occupied Crete. Schörgendorfer e...

The session aims to reassess society’s values and appropriation of the past as documented through a) the movement of individuals involved in producing knowledge of the past, and through b) the movement and displacement of archives and material heritage. Session speakers are invited to discuss developments whereby the movement of archaeologists and...

This paper aims to deduce episodes of the cultural biography of the inscribed bronze double axe from the sacred cave at Arkalochori in central Crete by focusing on its materiality and by examining the context of both its production and the reception of its undeciphered inscription. A discussion of the technicalities involved in the making of its fi...

Flouda, Georgia. “Minoan Communities and Commemorative Practices: The Late Prepalatial to Protopalatial Tholos Tomb A at Apesokari/Crete. “CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 1 (2014). [persistent identifier coming soon] The presentation examines the communal Tholos Tomb A at Apesokari in south-central Crete as the diachronic locus of the commemorative p...

Art restoration and archaeological material study are inseparately related to scientific investigation and scientific data processing of the information. This reality makes the mentioned field of the most attractive one and a very generous one for professional development. The e-proceeding, published by INTEGRA NATURA ET OMNIA-INOE, brings together...

A collection of 68 conference papers and original contributions on all aspects of the biography, intellectual achievements and scientific contribution of Heinrich Schliemann, published as an e-book that aims to outline the broader socio-political and ideological framework of his era.

The scope of this paper is to present the preliminary results of the ongoing systematic study of Tholos Tomb A at Apesokari, which was excavated in 1942 by A. Schörgendorfer. The main focus will be on the new data emerging from the restoration and study of the burial assemblage and on aspects of mortuary behaviour, as materialized by the former and...

This study aims to provide insights into the patterns discernible in the Pylian sealing practices with regard to the identity of the seal-owners involved. The focus is on reassessing the problem of the function of glyptic imagery and on testing the working hypothesis that differences in the subject matter of the seal devices used to produce the sea...

The main goal of the dissertation was to analyze the whole spectrum of the storage process. For this reason the study included not only the excavation contexts but also the available clay bureaucratic artefacts, such as the clay Linear B tablets, the clay sealings and the impressed bureaucratic documents which accompanied the goods during their col...