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Lesson 13.11: Funerary Architecture and the Excavation of Neopalatial Tombs and Cemeteries

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

L. Alberti, “Middle Minoan III Burial Customs at Knossos: A Pianissimo Intermezzo?,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), Intermezzo. Intermeidacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 47-56.

A. Bevan, E. Kiriatzi, C. Knappett, E. Kappa, and S. Papachristou, “Excavation of Neopalatial Deposits at Tholos (Kastri), Kythera,” BSA 97(2002) 55-96.

N. Dimopoulou, “The Neopalatial Cemetery of the Knossian Harbour-Town at Poros: Mortuary Behavior and Social Ranking,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) 27-36.

A. Evans, “The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos,” Archaeologia 59(1906) 391-562.

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.

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

E. J. Forsdyke, “The Mavro Spelio Cemetery at Knossos,” BSA 28(1927) 243-296.

E. Geourgoulaki, “Cleaning of the Minoan Tomb at Mantalia (Kato Kephala), near Hagios Georgios Siteias," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 147-150.

L. Girella, “Exhuming an Excavation: Preliminary Notes on the Use of the Kamilari Tholos Tomb in Middle Minoan III,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), Intermezzo. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 149-160.

L. Girella, “When Diversity Matters: Exploring Funerary Evidence in Middle Minoan III Crete,” SMEA n.s. 1(2015) 117-136.

L. Girella and I. Caloi, Kamilari. Una necropoli di tombe a tholos nella Messarà (Creta) [Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 29] (Athens 2019).

L. Girella and S. Todaro, “Secondary Burials and the Construction of Group Identities in Crete between the Second Half of the 4th and 2nd Millennia BC,” in M. Mina, S. Triantaphyllou, and Y. Papadatos (eds.), An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford 2016) 171-179.

F. Halbherr, “Three Cretan Necropoleis: Reports on the Researches at Erganos, Panaghia and Kourtes,” AJA 5(1901) 290-291.

E. Hall, Excavations in Eastern Crete: Sphoungaras (Philadelphia 1912).

Y. Hamilakis, “The ‘Emergence of the Individual’ Revisited: Memory and Transcorporeality in the Mortuary Landscapes of Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 314-331.

V. Hankey, “The Communal Tomb in Pyrgos IV (Late Minoan I),” BICS 33(1988) 135-137.

E. Hatzaki, “Visible and Invisible Death. Shifting Patterns in the Burial Customs of Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 190-209.

E. Hatzaki and P. S. Keswani, “Mortuary Practices and Ideology in Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Crete and Cyprus: Comparative Perspectives,” in G. Cadogan, M. Iacovou, K. Kopaka, and J. Whitley (eds.), Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus [BSA Studies 20] [London 2012] 307-330.

S. Hood, G. Huxley, and N. Sandars, “A Minoan Cemetery on Upper Gypsadhes,” BSA 53-54(1958-59) 194-269.

R. W. Hutchinson, “A Tholos Tomb on the Kephala,” BSA 51(1956) 74-80.

A. Kanta, “Late Bronze Age Tholos Tombs, Origin and Evolution. The Missing Links,” in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 229-247.

D. Levi, “La tomba a tholos di Kamilari presso a Festos,” Annuario 23-24(1961-62) 7-148.

C. R. Long, “Shrines in Sepulchres? A Re-examination of Three Middle to Late Minoan Tombs,” AJA 63(1959) 59-65.

W. Löwe, Spätbronzezeitliche Bestattungen auf Kreta [BAR-IS 642] (Oxford 1996).

W. Löwe, “Siedlungen und Gräber der Palastzeit,” in H. Siebenmorgen (ed.), Im Labyrinth des Minos. Kreta – die erste europäische Hochkultur (Munich 2000) 97-104.

M. Miller, The Funerary Landscape at Knossos: A Diachronic Study of Minoan Burial Customs with Special Reference to the Warrior Graves [BAR-IS 2201] (Oxford 2011).

P. Muhly, Minoïkos laxeutos taphos ston Poro Herakleiou (Athens 1992).

Y. Papadatos and C. Sofianou, Livari Skiadi: A Minoan Cemetery in Lefki, Southeast Crete I: Excavation and Finds [Prehistory Monographs 50] (Philadelphia 2015).

R. Paribeni, “Ricerche nel sepolcreto di Haghia Triada presso Phaestos,” Monumenti Antichi 14(1904) 677-756.

I. Pini, Beiträge zur minoischen Gräberkunde (Wiesbaden 1968).

M. Pologiorge, “Archaiotetes sten perioche tou choriou Apodoulou Amariou Rethymnou,” SMEA 26(1987) 125-160.

L. Preston, “Bringing in the Dead: Burials and the Local Perspective on Kythera in the Second Palace Period,” OJA 26(2007) 239-260.

L. Preston, “The Middle Minoan Funerary Landscape at Knossos,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), Intermezzo. Intermeidacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 57-70.

N. Prokopiou, L. Godart, and A. Tzigounaki, “YM tholotos taphos Satas Amariou Rethymnes,” Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) 185-206.

E. and Y. Sakellarakis, “Anaskaphe Archanon 1986-1988,” ArchEph (1991) 169-218.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes (Athens 1991) 66-135 [Phourni].

R. Seager, The Cemetery of Pachyammos, Crete (Philadelphia 1916).

L. Savignoni, “Scavi e scoperte nelle necropoli di Phaestos,” Monumenti antichi 14(1904) 501-675.

A. Taramelli, “A Note on the Necropolis of Kourtes,” AJA 5(1901) 437-451.

H. Van Effenterre, Nécropoles de Mirabello [Études crétoises 8] (Paris 1948).

H. and M. Van Effenterre, Mallia. Étude du site et exploration des nécropoles II [Études crétoises 13] (Paris 1963).

G. Vavouranakis, Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age [BAR-IS 1606] (Oxford 2007).

M. Vlasaki, “Omada neoanaktorikon angeion apo ton Stavromeno Rethymnes,” in EILAPINE. Tomos timetikos gia ton kathegete Nikolao Platona (Heraklion 1987) 55-68.

J. G. Younger and P. Rehak, “Minoan Culture: Religion, Burial Customs, and Administration,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 105-120.


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