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Lesson 5.9: Seals and Sealings

Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements

J. Aruz, “Seal Imagery and Sealing Practices in the Early Aegean World,” in P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra, G. G. Fissore, and M. Frangipane (eds.), Archives before Writing (Rome 1994) 211-236.

S. Cappel, “Lasting Impressions. The Appropriation of Sealing Practices in Minoan Crete,” in J. Maran and P. W. Stockhammer (eds.), Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters (Oxford 2012) 173-184.

M. S. F. Hood and V. E. G. Kenna, “An Early Minoan III Sealing from Knossos,” in Antichità Cretesi: Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 103-106.

O. Krzsyzkowska, “Wealth and Prosperity in Pre-Palatial Crete: The Case of Ivory,” in O. Krzsyzkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 163-170.

O. Krzsyzkowska, “Early Cretan Seals: New Evidence for the Use of Bone, Ivory and Boar's Tusk,” in I. Pini (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 3] (Berlin 1989) 111-126.

O. Krzyszkowska, Aegean Seals: An Introduction [BICS Supplement 85] (London 2005), esp. 57-78.

I. Pini, “Ein Beitrag zur chronologischen Ordnung der frühkretischen Siegel,” in Pepragmena tou Δ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1981) I: 421-435.

I. Pini, “Eine frühkretische Siegelwerkstatt?,” in Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) A2: 115-127.

K. Sbonias, Frühkretische Siegel: Ansätze für eine Interpretation der sozial-politischen Entwicklung auf Kreta während der Frühbronzezeit [BAR-IS 620] (Oxford 1995).

M. Vlasaki and E. Hallager, “Evidence for Seal Use in Pre-Palatial Western Crete,” in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux Minoens et Mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 251-270.

K. Sbonias, “Regional Elite-Groups and the Production and Consumption of Seals in the Prepalatial Period. A Case Study of the Asterousia Region,” in I. Schoep, P. Tomkins, and J. Driessen (eds.), Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 2012) 273-289.

P. Warren, “The Primary Dating Evidence for Early Minoan Seals,” Kadmos 9(1970) 29-37.

M. H. Wiencke, “Typology and Style of Prepalatial Seals,” in Studien zur minoischen und helladischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 1] (Marburg 1981) 251-261.

P. Yule. Early Cretan Seals: A Study of Chronology (Mainz 1981). 

P. Yule, “Notes on Scarabs and Aegean Chronology,” BSA 78(1983) 359-367.

P. Yule, “Early and Middle Minoan Foreign Relations: The Evidence from Seals,” SMEA 26(1987) 161-177.


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