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Lesson 15.11: Cult Furniture: Artifact Types Associated with Cult

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

S. Apostolakou, P. Betancourt, T. Brogan, D. Mylonas, and C. Sofianou, “Tritons Revisited,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique [Aegaeum 37] (Liège 2014) 325-331.

P. Åström and D. S. Reese, “Triton Shells in East Mediterranean Cults,” JPR 3-4(1990) 5-14.

M. Benzi, “Daskalio (Vathy), Kalymnos: A Late Bronze I Sacred Cave in the East Aegean,” in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2011) 13-24.

P. P. Betancourt, M. G. Ciaccio, B. Crowell, J. M. Donohoe, and R. C. Green, “Ceramic Stands: A Group of Domestic and Ritual Objects from Crete and the Near East,” Expedition 26(1983) 32-37.

A. M. Bignasca, I kernoi circolari in Oriente e in Occidente: strumenti di culto e immagini cosmiche [Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis: Series Archaeologica 19] (Göttingen 2000).

H-G. Buchholz, Zur Herkunft der kretischen Doppelaxt: Geschichte und auswärtige Beziehungen eines minoischen Kultsymbols (Munich 1959).

G. Cadogan, “Clay Tubes in Minoan Religion,” Pepragmena tou Γ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1973) 34-38.

G. Cadogan, “Tubular Stands in Neopalatial Crete,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 201-212.

D. Cameron, “The Minoan Horns of Consecration,” in J. Marler (ed.), From the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (Manchester 1997) 508-518.

A. L. D’Agata, “Late Minoan Crete and Horns of Consecration: A Symbol in Action,” in R. Laffineur and J. L. Crowley (eds.), EIKON: Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology [Aegaeum 8] (Liège 1992) 247-256.

P. Darcque and A. Van de Moortel, “Special, Ritual, or Cultic: A Case Study from Malia,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 31-41.

P. M. Day, L. Joyner, V. Kilikoglou, and G. C. Gesell, “Goddesses, Snake Tubes, and Plaques: Analysis of Ceramic Ritual Objects from the LM IIIC Shrine at Kavousi,” Hesperia 75(2006) 137-175.

P. Demargne, “La robe de la déesse minoenne sur un cachet de Mallia,” RA 29-30 [Mélanges Charles Picard] (1949) 280-288.

S. Diamant and J. Rutter, “Horned Objects from Anatolia and the Near East and Possible Connexions with the Minoan ‘Horns of Consecration’,” AnatSt 19(1969) 147-177.

H. Georgiou, “Late Minoan Incense Burners,” AJA 83(1979) 427-435.

G. C. Gesell, “The Minoan Snake Tube: A Survey and Catalogue,” AJA 80(1976) 247-259.

G. C. Gesell, “The Goddesses with Up-raised Hands from Kavousi Ierapetras,” Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymnon 1995) A1: 349-351.

G. C. Gesell and T. C. Saupe, “Methods Used in the Construction of Ceramic Objects from the Shrine of the Goddess with Up-raised Hands at Kavousi,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 123-125.

G. C. Gesell, “The Function of the Plaque in the Shrines of the Goddess with Up-raised Hands,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 253-258.

E. Giannouli, “Minoïka kerata kathosioseos. Protase ermeneias,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 235-270.

E. Hatzaki, “Structured Deposition as Ritual Action at Knossos,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 19-30.

M. Haysom, “The Double-Axe: A Contextual Approach to the Understanding of a Cretan Symbol in the Neopalatial Period,” OJA 29(2010) 35-55.

S. Hood, “Minoan Cup-Marks,” Eirene 31(1995) 7-43.

A. Karetsou and R. D. G. Evely, “Two Stone Kernoi from the Iuktas Peak Sanctuary,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 81-96.

D. Lefèvre-Novaro, “Un nouvel examen des modèles réduits trouvés dans la grande tombe de Kamilari,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 89-98.

M. Lowe Fri, The Double Axe in Minoan Crete: A Functional Analysis of Production and Use (PhD dissertation, University of Stockholm 2007).

M. Mante-Platonos, “Teletourgikes sphyres kai ropala sto minoïko kosmo,” ArchEph (1981) 74-83.

M. Matouskova, “The Sacral Knot and Its Iconographic Use,” Studia Hercynia 22(2018) 9-31.

P. Muhly, Minoan Libation Tables (Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College 1981).

P. Muhly, “A Terracotta Foot Model from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 133-138.

M. Nikolaïdou, The Double Axe in the Iconography of Minoan Vessels: Approaches to the Dynamics of Minoan Religious Symbolism (Ph.D. dissertation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1994) <in Greek>.

D. Novaro, “I modellini fittili della tomba di Kamilari: il problema cronologico,” in V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI: Simposio italiano di Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Rome 1999) 151-161.

B. R. Powell, “The Significance of the So-called Horns of Consecration,” Kadmos 16(1977) 70-82.

M. Prent, “The Survival of the Goddess with Upraised Arms: Early Iron Age Representations and Contexts,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 231-238.

D. Puglisi, “Dal ‘vassoio tripodato’ al kernos: un set di ceramiche TM IA da Haghia Triada e il suo contributo alla conoscenza del rituale minoico,” Creta Antica 11(2010) 45-129.

G. Rethemiotakis, “A Neopalatial Shrine Model from the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Gournos Krousonas,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 189-199.

G. Rethemiotakis, “A Shrine-Model from Galatas,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 293-302.

G. Rethemiotakis, “God Save Our Homes: The Case of the Horns of Consecration from Galatas,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 169-176.

W. H. D. Rouse, “The Double Axe and the Labyrinth,” JHS 21(1901) 268-274.

A. Sanavia, “How to Improve on Nature: Some Middle Minoan Triton Shells from Phaistos (Crete),” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique [Aegaeum 37] (Liège 2014) 543-546.

A. Sanavia and J. Weingarten, “The Transformation of Tritons: Some Decorated Middle Minoan Triton Shells and an Anatolian Counterpart,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 39] (Liège 2016) 335-344.

W. Schiering, “Ein minoisches Tonrhyton in Hammerform,” Kretika Chronika 14(1972) 476-486.

I. Tournavitou, “Does Size Matter? Miniature Pottery Vessels in Minoan Peak Sanctuaries,” in A. L. D’Agata and A. Van de Moortel (eds.), Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell [Hesperia Supplement 42] (Princeton 2009) 213-230.


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