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Lesson 6.12: Seals and Sealings

Lesson 6 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs

J. Aruz, The Silver Cylinder Seal from Mochlos,” Kadmos 23(1984) 186-187.

J. Aruz, Marks of Distinction. Seals and Cultural Exchange between the Aegean and the Orient (ca. 2600-1360 B.C.) [CMS Beiheft 7] (Mainz 2008).

A. Blasingham, The Seals from the Tombs of the Messara. Inferences as to Kinship and Social Organization,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 11-21.

K. Galanakis, Minoan Glyptic: Typology, Deposits and Iconography from the Early Minoan Period to the Late Minoan IB Destruction in Crete [BAR-IS Series 1442] (Oxford 2005).

E. E. Galligan, From Tholos to Palace: Individual and Corporate Identity in Prepalatial Burials and Seal Iconography (MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2007).

E. Hallager, “New Evidence for Seal Use in the Pre- and Protopalatial Periods,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 97-106.

A. Karytinos, Sealstones in Cemeteries: A Display of Social Status?,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 78-86.

A. Karytinos, “The Stylistic Development of Seals from Archanes-Phourni throughout the Prepalatial Period – Style and Social Meaning,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 123-134.

O. Krzyszkowska, 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.

O. Krzyszkowska, “Seals from the Petras Cemetery: A Preliminary Overview,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 145-160.

S. Mazzoni, “Seals and Visual Communication across the 3rd Millennium Mediterranean,” in G. Graziadio, R. Guglielmino, V. Lenuzza, and S. Vitale (eds.), FILIKE SYNAVLIA. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology for Mario Benzi [BAR-IS 2460] (Oxford 2013) 193-204.

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

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

K. Sbonias, “Specialization in the Early Minoan Seal Manufacture: Craftsmen, Settlements and the Organization of Production,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 277-294.

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.

J. Weingarten, “How Many Seals Make a Heap: Seals and Interconnections on Prepalatial Crete,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 759-766.

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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