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Lesson 15.16: Fertility and Funerary Cult

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

L. Alberti, “Rethinking the Tomb of the Double Axes at Isopata, 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) 99-105.

S. E. Brekke, “The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus: Egyptian Influence on Minoan Religion,” AntW (2010) 155-167.

B. Burke, “Materialization of Mycenaean Ideology and the Ayia Triada Sarcophagus,” AJA 109(2005) 403-422.

B. C. Dietrich, “Death and Afterlife in Minoan Religion,” Kernos 10(1997) 19-38.

R. Laffineur, “Fécondité et pratiques funéraires en Égée à l’âge du Bronze,” in A. Bonanno (ed.), Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (Amsterdam 1986) 79-96.

R. Laffineur, “À propos du sarcophagi d’Aghia Triada : Un ritual de nécromancie à l’époque protohistorique?,” Kernos 4(1991) 277-285.

D. Levi, “The Sarcophagus of Haghia Triada Restored,” Archaeology 9(1956) 192-199.

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

C. Long, The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs [SIMA 41] (Göteborg 1974).

P. Militello, “Minoische Tradition und mykenische Innovation: Wandbilder und Kultaktivitäten in Agia Triada in SM IIIA,” ÖJh 75(2006) 185-203.

J. P. Nauert, “The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus: An Iconographical Study,” AntK 8(1965) 91-98.

J. P. Nauert, “A Goat-Chariot on the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus: A Further Note,” AJA 76(1972) 437.

R. Paribeni, “Il sarcofago dipinto di Haghia Triada,” Monumenti Antichi 19(1908) 677-756.

A. D. Peatfield, “Water, Fertility, and Purification in Minoan Religion,” in C. Morris (ed.), Klados: Essays in Honour of J. N. Coldstream [BICS Supplement 63] (London 1995) 217-227.

W. Pötscher, “Der Termin des Festes auf dem Sarkophag von Hagia Triada,” Klio 76(1994) 67-77.

W. Pötscher, “Tag und Nacht auf dem Sarkophag von Hagia Triada,” Klio 79(1997) 19-22.

W. Pötscher, “Bemerkungen zum Sarkophag von Hagia Triada,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 (Vienna 2000) 107-110.

J. S. Soles, “Reverence for Dead Ancestors in Prehistoric Crete,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (eds.), POTNIA: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 229-236.

J. S. Soles, “Evidence for Ancestor Worship in Minoan Crete : New Finds from Mochlos,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 331-338.

E. Yannouli, “Fecundity and the Sacred: Some Preliminary Thoughts Regarding Bronze Age Greece,” JPR 11-12(1998) 65-84.


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