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Lesson 13.3: Excavation Reports of Villas

Lesson 13 Bibliography: Minoan Domestic and Funerary Architecture of the Neopalatial and Post-Palatial Periods

M. Andrianakis and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 1[2008] (Rethymno 2010).

M. Andrianakis, P. Varthalitou, and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 2[2010] (Rethymno 2012).

G. Cadogan, “Pyrgos, Crete, 1970-77,” JHS Archaeological Reports 24(1978) 70-84.

G. Cadogan, “The Role of the Pyrgos Country House in Minoan Society,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 99-103.

G. Cadogan, “Where Has Middle Minoan III Gone? A Lack at Myrtos-Pyrgos – and Elsewhere? What Does It Mean?,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), Intermezzo. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 179-182.

S. Chrysoulaki, “Nerokourou Building I and its Place in Neopalatial Crete,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 27-32.

N. Cucuzza, “Il complesso della villa di Kannià (Messara) fra Tardo Minoico I e Tardo Minoico III,” in D. Lefèvre-Novaro, L. Martzolff, and M. Ghilardi (eds.), Géosciences, archéologie, et histoire en Crète de l’Âge du Bronze Récent à l’Époque Archaïque (Padova 2015) 183-196.

C. Davaras, “Architectural Elements of LM IB Villa at Makriyialos,” Pepragmena tou Ε' Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1985) 77-92.

C. Davaras, “The ‘Cult Villa’ at Makriyialos,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 117-135.

J. Driessen and C. Knappett, “The Late Minoan I Building at Vaï (Crete),” BCH 138(2014) 451-467.

J. M. Driessen and J. A. MacGillivray, “The Neopalatial Period in East Crete,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 99-110.

J. Driessen and Y. Sakellarakis, “The Vathypetro Complex. Some Observations on its Architectural History and Function,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 63-77.

A. J. Evans, “The ‘Tomb of the Double Axes’ and Associated Group, and the Pillar Rooms and Ritual Vessels of the ‘Little Palace’ at Knossos,” Archaeologia 65(1913-14) 1-94.

V. Fotou, “Éléments d'analyse architecturale et la question des fonctions des trois bâtiments-‘villas’: La ‘Royal Villa’, le ‘Mégaron’ de Nirou et le ‘Mégaron’ de Sklavokambos,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 33-50.

F. Halbherr, E. Stefani, and L. Banti, “Hagia Triada nel periodo tardo palaziale,” Annuario 55 [1977] (1980) 13-291.

E. M. Hatzaki, “Was the Little Palace at Knossos the ‘Little Palace’ of Knossos?,” in D. Evely, I. S. Lemos, and S. Sherratt (eds.), Minotaur and Centaur. Studies in the Archaeology of Crete and Euboea Presented to Mervyn Popham [BAR-IS 638] (Oxford 1996) 34-45.

E. M. Hatzaki, Knossos: The Little Palace [BSA Supplementary Volume 38] (London 2005).

B. Hayden, “Late Bronze Age Tylissos. House Plans and Cult Center,” Expedition 26(1984) 37-46.

I. Hazzidakis, “Tylissos minoïke,” ArchEph (1912) 197-233.

J. Hazzidakis, Tylissos à l'époque minoenne (Paris 1921).

J. Hazzidakis, Les villas minoennes de Tylissos [Études crétoises 3] (Paris 1934).

L. A. Hitchcock and D. Preziosi, “The Knossos Unexplored Mansion and the ‘Villa-Annex Complex’,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 51-62.

R. Koehl, “The Villas at Ayia Triada and Nirou Chani and the Origin of the Cretan Andreion,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 137-149.

V. La Rosa, “La ‘Villa Royale’ d'Haghia Triada,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 79-89.

D. Levi, “La villa rurale minoica di Gortina,” BdA 44(1959) 237-265.

E. Mantzourani and G. Vavouranakis, “Achladia and Epano Zakros: A Re-examination of the Architecture and Topography of Two Possible Minoan Villas in East Crete,” OpAth 30(2005) 99-125.

E. Mantzourani, G. Vavouranakis, and C. Kanellopoulos, “The Klimataria-Manares Building Reconsidered,” AJA 109(2005) 743-776.

E. Mantzourani and G. Vavouranakis, “The Minoan Villas in East Crete: Households or Seats of Authority? The Case of Prophitis Ilias Praisou,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 125-135.

S. Marinatos, “Anaskaphe Amnisou Kretes,” Prakt (1932) 76-94.

S. Marinatos, “To minoïkon megaron Sklavokampou,” ArchEph (1939-41) 69-96.

S. Marinatos, “Anaskaphai Vathypetrou Archanon (Kretes),” Prakt (1949) 100-109.

S. Marinatos, “Anaskaphai megarou Vathypetrou (Kretes),” Prakt (1951) 258-272.

S. Marinatos, “Anaskaphai en Vathypetro Kretes,” Prakt (1952) 592-610.

C. Monaco and L. Tortorici, “Effects of Earthquakes on the Minoan ‘Royal Villa’ at Haghia Triada (Crete),” Creta Antica 4(2003) 403-417.

B. Montecchi, Contare a Haghia Triada. Le tavolette in lineare A, i documenti sigillati e il sistema economico-amministrativo nel TM IB [Incunabula Graeca 107] (Rome 2019).

E. Oddo, “Cross-joins and Archaeological Sections. The Myrtos-Pyrgos Cistern: Reconstructing a Neopalatial Stratigraphy,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 58-62.

L. Platon, “The Minoan ‘Villa’ in Eastern Crete. Riza, Akhladia and Profetes Elias Praissos: Two Different Specimens of One Category?,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 187-202.

N. Platon, “Minoïke epavle Seteias,” Prakt 6(1952) 36-39.

N. Platon, “Anaskaphe Achladion Seteias,” Prakt (1959) [1965] 210-217.

J. Poblome and C. Dumon, “A Minoan Building Program? Some Comments on the Unexplored Mansion at Knossos,” Acta Archaeologica Lovanensia 26-27(1987-88) 69-73.

M. R. Popham, The Minoan Unexplored Mansion at Knossos [BSA Supplementary Volumes 17] (London 1984).

J. Sakellarakis, “Zominthos,” Ergon (1988) 165-172.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes (Athens 1991) 27-65 [Tourkogeitonia].

Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Archanes. Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens 1997).

J. Schäfer, Amnisos nach den archäologischen, historischen und epigraphischen Zeugnissen des Altertums und der Neuzeit (Berlin 1992).

Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene, Creta Antica: Cento Anni di Archeologia Italiana (1884-1984) (Rome 1984).

M. Tsipopoulou and A. Papacostopoulou, “’Villas’ and Villages in the Hinterland of Pteras, Siteia,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the ‘Minoan Villa’ (Stockholm 1997) 203-214.

M. Tsipopoulou and L. Vagnetti (eds.), Achladia: scavi e ricerche della Missione Greco-Italiana in Creta Orientale [1991-1993] (Rome 1995).

L. V. Watrous, “Ayia Triada: A New Perspective on the Minoan Villa,” AJA 88(1984) 123-134.

S. Xanthoudides, “Anaskaphe eis Nirou Chani tes Kretes,” Prakt (1919) [1922] 63-69.

S. Xanthoudides, “Minoïkon megaron Nirou,” ArchEph (1922) 1-25.


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