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Lesson 15.8: Figurines

Lesson 15 Bibliography: Minoan Religion

A. L. D’Agata, Hagia Triada II. Statuine minoiche e post-minoiche dai vecchi scavi di Haghia Triada (Creta) [Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene IX] (Padova 1999).

E. M. Bonney, “Disarming the Snake Goddess: A Reconsideration of the Faience Figurines from the Temple Repositories at Knossos,” JMA 24(2011) 171-190.

S. L. Budin, Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World (Cambridge 2011).

N. Cucuzza, “Minoan Nativity Scenes? The Ayia Triada Swing Model and the Three-dimensional Representation of Minoan Divine Epiphany,” ASAtene 91[2013] (2015) 175-207.

C. Davaras, “Trois bronzes minoens de Skoteino,” BCH 93(1969) 620-650.

T. C. Eliopoulos, “The ‘Minoan Goddess with Upraised Arms’ Today,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 85-96.

G. C. Gesell, “The Snake Goddesses of the LM IIIB and LM IIIC Periods,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 131-140.

L. Girella, “Vasi rituali con elementi miniaurizzati a Creta, in Egeo, e nel Mediterraneo Orientale alla fine dell’Età del Bronzo. Indicatori archeologici ed etnici,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 167-216.

C. Morris, “Configuring the Individual: Bodies of Figurines in Minoan 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) 179-187.

C. Murphy, “Minoan Three-dimensional Anthropomorphic Representations. Problems of Definition,” Creta Antica 13(2012) 61-82.

A. Peatfield and C. Morris, “Peak Sanctuary Figurines: Materializing Issues of Ritual Personhood within Community/House Identity,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 173-184.

A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw and F. Stevens, “Destroying the Snake Goddesses,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 153-170.

D. Sphakianakis, "The ‘Vrysinas Ephebe’: The Lower Torso of a Clay Figurine in Contrapposto,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 201-212.

I. Tzachili, “Headless, Armless but Sexuated Bodies: On Some Particular Figurines from the Peak Sanctuary of Vrysinas, near Rethymnon, Crete,” in E. Mantzourani and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), PHILISTOR. Studies in Honor of Costis Davaras [Prehistory Monographs 36] (Philadelphia 2012) 233-238.

M. Zeimbeki, The Typological Forms and Functions of Animal Figures from Minoan Peak Sanctuaries with Special Reference to Juktas and Kophinas (PhD dissertation, University of Bristol 1998).

M. Zeimbeki, “The Organization of Votive Production and Distribution in the Peak Sanctuaries of State Society Crete: A Perspective Offered by the Juktas Clay Animal Figurines,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 351-361.


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