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Lesson 10.22: Foreign Relations

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

M. E. Alberti, “Aegean Trade Systems. Overview and Observations on the Middle Broze Age,” in M. E. Alberti and S. Sabatini (eds.), Exchange Networks and Local Transformations. Interaction and Local Change in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Oxford 2013) 22-43.

S. Antonello, “The Multi-chamber Tombs in Mavro Spilio: a Cypriot Origin?,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 1 (Warsaw 2017) 11-18.

J. Aruz, “Crete and Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age: Sealings from Phaistos and Karahöyük,” in M. Mellink, E. Porada, and T. Özgüç eds.), Aspects of Art and Iconography: Anatolia and its Neighbors. Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç (1993) 35-54.

J. Aruz, “Syrian Seals and the Evidence for Cultural Interaction between the Levant and Crete,” in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux minoens et mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 1-21.

P. P. Betancourt, “Middle Minoan Objects in the Near East,” in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 5-11.

P. P. Betancourt, “Trade and Interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the Evidence from the Ayios Charalmabos Cave,” in I. Schoep, P. Tomkins, and J. Driessen (eds.), Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 2012) 184-194.

J. Betts, “Ships on Minoan Seals,” in D. Blackman (ed.), Marine Archaeology (Bristol 1973) 325-328.

K. Branigan, “Byblite Daggers in Cyprus and Crete,” AJA 70(1966) 123-126.

K. Branigan, “Further Light on Prehistoric Relations between Crete and Byblos,” AJA 71(1967) 117-121.

K. Branigan, “Minoan Foreign Relations in Transition,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 65-71.

C. Broodbank, “Minoanisation,” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 50(2004) 46-91.

C. Broodbank and E. Kiriatzi, “The First ‘Minoans’ of Kythera Revisited: Technology, Demography, and Landscape in the Prepalatial Aegean,” AJA 111(2007) 241-274.

T. Carter and V. Kilikoglou, “From Reactor to Royalty? Aegean and Anatolian Obsidians from Quartier Mu, Malia (Crete),” JMA 20(2007) 115-143.

C. Davaras and J. Soles, “A New Oriental Cylinder Seal from Mochlos. Appendix: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals Found in the Aegean,” ArchEph 134(1995) 29-66.

S. C. Ferrence, “Hippopotamus Ivory in EM-MM Lasithi and the Implications for Eastern Medieterranean Trade: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 167-175.

L. Fitton, S. Quirke, and M. Hughes, Northerners at Lahun: Neutron Activation Analysis of Minoan and Related Pottery in the British Museum [Lahun Studies 1] (London 1999).

L. Godart and A. Sacconi, “La plus ancienne tablette d’Enkomi et le Linéaire A,” in V. Karageorghis (ed.), Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium, ‘The Relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 B.C.’ (Nicosia 1979) 128-133.

M. Guichard, “Les mentions de la Crète à Mari,” in A. Caubet (ed.), L’acrobate au taureau: Les découvertes de Tell el-Dab’a et l’archéologie de la Méditeranée orientale (1800-1400 avant J.-C.) (Paris 1999) 165-177.

H. Höflmayer, “Ägyptische Skarabäen auf Kreta und ihre Bedeutung für die absolute Chronologie der minoischen Altpalastzeit (MM IB – MM IIB),” Ägypten und Levante 17(2007) 107-126.

A. Højen Sørensen, “Approaching Levantine Shores. Aspects of Cretan Contacts with Western Asia during the MM – LM I Periods,” Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens 6(2009) 9-55.

A. Karnava, “The Tel Haror Inscription and Crete: A Further Link,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 837-843.

B. J. Kemp and R. S. Merrillees, Minoan Pottery in Second Millennium Egypt (Mainz 1980).

C. Knappett and I. Nikolakopoulou, “Exchange and Affiliation Networks in the MBA Southern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Miletus,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 175-184.

E. Kyriakidis, “Indications on the Nature of the Language of the Keftiw from Egyptian Sources,” Ägypten und Levante 12(2002) 211-219.

E. Lange-Athinodorou, “Kontakte zwischen Ägypten und Kreta vor dem Neuen Reich,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 279-300.

B. Legarra Herrero, “New Kid on the Block: The Nature of the First Systemic Contacts between Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean around 2000 BC,” in T. C. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt, and J. Bennet (eds.), Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC (Oxford 2011) 266-281.

J. A. MacGillivray, “A Minoan Cup at Tell el-Dab'a,” Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 81-84.

J. A. MacGillivray, “Absolute Middle Minoan III – The Bigger Picture: Early Neopalatial Crete’s Relations with the Ancient Orient in the Mid-second Millennium BC,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 221-224.

T. Palaima, “Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context,” in Y. Duhoux, T. G. Palaima, and J. Bennet (eds.), Problems in Decipherment (Louvain-la-Neuve 1989) 121-187.

T. G. Palaima, “Ideograms and Supplementals and Regional Interaction among Aegean and Cypriote Scripts,” Minos 24(1989) 29-54.

A. G. Papagiannopoulou, The Influence of Middle Minoan Pottery on the Cyclades [SIMA-PB 96] (Göteborg 1991).

J.-C. Poursat and M. Loubet, “Métallurgie et contacts extérieurs à Malia (Crète) au Minoen Moyen II: Remarques sur une série d’analyses isotopiques du plomb,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 117-121.

A. Raymond, “Kamares Ware (and Minoans?) at Miletus,” Aegean Archaeology 5[2001] (2002) 19-26.

J. B. Rutter and C. W. Zerner, “Early Hellado-Minoan Contacts,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 75-83.

J. S. Smith, “Writing Styles in Clay of the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age,” in N. C. Stampolidis and V. Karageorghis (eds.), PLOES . . . Sea Routes . . .: Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th – 6th c. BC (Athens 2003) 277-289.

J. R. Stewart, “The Tomb of the Seafarer at Karmi in Cyprus,” Opuscula Atheniensia 4(1962) 197-204.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, “The Origin of Metal Used for Making Weapons in Early and Middle Minoan Crete,” in C. Scarre and F. Healy (eds.), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe (Oxford 1993) 115-129.

I. Strøm, “Middle Minoan Crete: A Reconsideration of Some of its External Relations,” in J. Best and N. De Vries (eds.), Interaction and Acculturation in the Mediterranean (Amsterdam 1980) 105-123.

E. Uphill, “User and his Place in Egypto-Minoan History,” BICS 31(1984) 31-32.

A. Van de Moortel, “The Harbor of Kommos and its East Mediterranean Connections in the Protopalatial Period,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 177-184.

G. Walberg, “The Finds at Tell el-Dab'a and Middle Minoan Chronology,” Ägypten und Levante 2(1991) 115-118.

G. Walberg, “The Date and Origin of the Kamares Cup from Tell el-Dab'a,” Ägypten und Levante 8(1998) 107-108.

P. M. Warren, “Minoan Crete and Pharaonic Egypt,” in W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (eds.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant (London 1995) 1-18.

L. V. Watrous, “Egypt and Crete in the Early Middle Bronze Age: A Case of Trade and Cultural Diffusion,” in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 19-27.

L. V. Watrous, “Cretan International Relations during the Middle Minoan IA Period and the Chronology of Seager’s Finds from the Mochlos Tombs,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 107-115.

F. C. Woodhuizen, “The Bee-Sign (Evans No. 86): An Instance of Egyptian Influence on Cretan Hieroglyphic,” Kadmos 36(1997) 97-110.

H-P. Wotzka, “The Abuse of User. A Note on the Egyptian Statuette from Knossos,” BSA 85(1990) 449-453.

P. Yule, “Early and Middle Minoan Foreign Relations: The Evidence from the Seals,” SMEA 26(1987) 161-177.


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