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Lesson 16.13: Metal Vessels

Lesson 16 Bibliography: The Shaft Graves

S. Aulsebrook, Political Strategies and Metal Vessels in Mycenaean Societies: Deconstructing Prestige Objects through an Analysis of Value (PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge 2012).

S. Aulsebrook, “Rethinking Standardization: The Social Meanings of Mycenaean Metal Cups,” OJA 37(2018) 147-163.

S. Aulsebrook, “Materialising Mythology: The Cup of Nestor from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 2 (Warsaw 2019) 79-89.

F. Blakolmer, “The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting ‘Heroes’ on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos?,” in R. Laffineur and S. P. Morris (eds.), EPOS: Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology [Aegaeum 28] (Liège/Austin 2007) 213-224.

E. N. Davis, The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware (New York 1977).

J. T. Hooker, “The Mycenae Siege Rhyton and the Question of Egyptian Influence,” AJA 71(1967) 269-281.

K. Kalogeropoulos, “Der Schatzfund von der Akropolis in Mykene. Überlegungen zu Fundstelle und Zusammensetzung einer Edelmetalldeponierung am Gräberrund A,” in S. and R. Nawracala (eds.), ΠΟΛΥΜΑΘΕΙΑ: Festschrift für Hartmut Matthäus anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages (Erlangen 2015) 219-243.

E. Konstantinidi-Syvridi, N. Papadimitriou, A. Philippa-Touchais, and A. Goumas, “Goldworking Techniques in Mycenaean Greece (17th/16th-12th Century B.C.): Some New Observations,” in H. Meller, R. Risch, and E. Pernicka (eds.), Metalle der Macht: Frühes Gold und Silber (Halle 2014) 335-348.

R. B. Koehl, “The Silver Stag ‘BIBRU’ from Mycenae,” in J. B. Carter and S. P. Morris (eds.), The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin 1995) 61-66.

R. Laffineur, “Réflexions sur le trésor de Tod,” Aegaeum 2 (Liège 1988) 17-30.

N. W. Leinwand, “A Ladle from Shaft Grave III at Mycenae,” AJA 84(1980) 519-521.

J. Maran, “Die Silbergefässe von el-Tod und die Schachtgräberzeit auf dem griechischen Festland,” PZ 62(1987) 221-227.

H. Matthäus, Die Bronzegefässe der kretisch-mykenischen Kultur [Prähistorische Bronzefunde II,1] (Munich 1980).

T. J. McCullough, Metal to Clay: ‘Recovering’ Middle Minoan Metal Vessels from Knossos and Phaistos through Their Ceramic Skeuomorphs (PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 2014).

T. G. Palaima, “The Inscribed Bronze ‘Kessel’ from Shaft Grave IV and Cretan Heirlooms of the Bronze Artist Named ‘Aigeus’ vel sim. in the Mycenaean Palatial Period,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 187-201.

L. C. Reeves, Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age Metal Vessels: A Social Perspective (Ph.D. dissertation, University College London 2003).

A. Sakellariou, “Un cratère d'argent avec scène de bataille provenant de la IVe tombe de l'acropole de Mycènes,” AntK 17(1974) 3-20.

A. Sakellariou, “La scène du ‘siège’ sur le rhyton d'argent de Mycènes d'après une nouvelle reconstitution,” RA (1975) 195-208.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Silver Vessels in the Mycenaean Shaft Graves and Their Origin in the Context of the Metal Supply in the Bronze Age Aegean,” in H. Meller, R. Risch, and E. Pernicka (eds.), Metalle der Macht: Frühes Gold und Silber [Halle 2014) 183-208.

M. H. Wiener, “Helladic Pairs of Cups,” in R. B. Koehl (ed.), Studies in Aegean Art and Culture: A New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium in Memory of Ellen N. Davis (Philadelphia 2016) 11-26.


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