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Lesson 10.18: Seals

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

E. S. K. Anderson, Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete (Cambridge 2016).

J. Aruz, Marks of Distinction. Seals and Cultural Exchange between the Aegean and the Orient (ca. 2600-1360 B.C.) [CMS Beiheft 7] (Mainz 2008).

F. Blakolmer, “A ‘Special Procession’ in Minoan Seal Images: Observations on Ritual Dress in Minoan Crete,” in P. Pavúk, V. Klonzta-Jaklová, and A. Harding (eds.), EUDAIMON: Studies in Honour of Professor Jan Bouzek (Prague 2019) 29-50.

F. Blakolmer, “At the Dawn of Minoan Iconography: The ‘Archivio di cretule’ at MM IIB Phaistos,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography [Aegis 18] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 47-70.

J. L. Crowley, The Iconography of Aegean Seals [Aegaeum 34] (Leuven 2013).

J. L. Crowley, “Reading the Phaistos Sealings: Taking the Textbook Approach of Iconographic Analysis,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography [Aegis 18] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 19-46.

E. Fiandra, “Change and Continuity in the MM: The Tomb of Kamilari," in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux Minoens et Mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 77-85.

S. Finlayson, “The House Seal: Examining Seal Use and Sealing Practices in Proto- and Neopalatial Crete in the Light of Lévi-Strauss’ Model of House Societies,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 185-200.

A. L. Foster, “The Use of Private Seals in Minoan Crete through Examples from Contemporary Egypt: Counterstamping and Its Implications,” in in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 487-495.

K. Galanakis, Minoan Glyptic: Typology, Deposits and Iconography from the Early Minoan Period to the Late Minoan IB Destruction in Crete [BAR-IS 1442] (Oxford 2005).

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. Karnava, “Archeia sphragidon kai archeia ieroglyphikon keimenon sten epoche ton proton anaktoron sten Krete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 25-36.

A. Karytinos, “Sealstones in Cemeteries: a Display of Social Status?,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 78-86.

A. Karytinos, “Oi zoomorphikes sphragides ton Archanon,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 37-50.

O. Krzsyzkowska, “Early Cretan Seals: New Evidence for the Use of Bone, Ivory and Boar's Tusk,” in I. Pini (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 3] (Berlin 1989) 111-126.

O. Krzyszkowska, Aegean Seals: An Introduction [BICS Supplement 85] (London 2005), esp. 79-118.

O. Krzyszkowska, “Why Were Cats Different? Script and Imagery in Middle Minoan II Glyptic,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 100-106.

M. Marthari, “An MM Seal with Swallow Motif from Knossos and its Interconnections with Late MC – LC I Theran Iconography,” in D. Danielidou (ed.), DORON: Timetikos Tomos gia ton Kathegete Spyro Iakovide (Athens 2009) 419-439.

I. Pini, “Zehn frühkretischen Skarabäen,” in T. Hackens (ed.), Technologie et analyse des gemmes anciennes (Strasbourg 1989) 99-111.

I. Pini, “Eine frühkretische Siegelwerkstatt?,” in Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) A1: 115-128.

I. Pini, “The Hieroglyphic Deposit and the Temple Repositories at Knossos,” in T. G. Palaima (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration [Aegaeum 5] (Liège 1990) 33-60.

I. Pini, “Eleven Early Cretan Scarabs,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete - Aigyptos. Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion. Meletes (Athens 2000) 107-113.

I. Pini, “Die ‘Architeckturmotive’ in der MM-Glyptik,” in F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), STEPHANOS ARISTEIOS. Archäologische Forschungen zwischen Nil und Istros: Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna 2007) 225-236.

J.-C. Poursat, “Les sceaux prismatiques minoens: chronologie et évolution,” in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux Minoens et Mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 209-213.

J-C. Poursat and E. Papatsaroucha, “Les sceaux de l’Atelier de Malia: Questions de style,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 257-268.

J. J. Reich, “The Date of the Hieroglyphic Deposit at Knossos,” AJA 74(1970) 406-408.

J. Sakellarakis, “Die neuen Hieroglyphensiegel vom Phourni, Archanes 1,” Kadmos 5(1966) 109-114.

J. Sakellarakis, “Gruppen minoischer Siegel der Vorpalastzeit aus datierten geschlossenen Funden,” JRGZM 27(1980) 1-12.

J. Sakellarakis, “Chronologemena synola proanaktorikon sphragidon apo tes Archanes,” Pepragmena tou Δ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1981) 510-531.

K. Sbonias, Frühkretische Siegel: Ansätze für eine Interpetation der sozial-politischen Entwicklung auf Kreta während der Frühbronzezeit [BAR-IS 620] (Oxford 1995).

A. Shapland, “The Minoan Lion: Presence and Absence on Bronze Age Crete,” World Archaeology 42(2010) 273-289.

A. Ulanowska, “Textile Technology and Minoan Glyptic. Representations of Loom Weights on Middle Minoan Prismatic Seals,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 1 (Warsaw 2017) 57-66.

J. Weingarten, “How Many Seals Make a Heap: Seals and Interconnections on Prepalatial Crete,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 759-766.

G. Weng, “Kamares Ware and South Cretan Seals,” Aegean Archaeology 5(2001) [2002] 55-62.

M. H. Wiencke, “Typology and Style of Prepalatial Seals,” in Studien zur minoischen und helladischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 1] (Marburg 1981) 251-261.

J. G. Younger, “New Observations on Hieroglyphic Seals,” SMEA 28(1990) 85-92.

P. Yule, Early Cretan Seals: A Study of Chronology (Mainz 1981).


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