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Lesson 16.8: Seals, Signet Rings, and Scarabs

Lesson 16 Bibliography: The Shaft Graves

J. H. Betts, “The Seal from Shaft Grave Gamma: A ‘Mycenaean Chieftain’?,” TUAS 6(1981) 2-8.

N. Boufides, “A Scarab from Grave Circle B of Mycenae,” AAA 3(1970) 273-274.

S. W. Carter, ‘The Battle of the Glen’ Revisited: A Gold Signet Ring (CMS I 16) of the Aegean Late Bronze Age in its Full Iconographic Context (undergraduate Honors thesis, Dartmouth College 2000).

J. L. Davis and S. R. Stocker, “The Lord of the Gold Rings: The Griffin Warrior of Pylos,” Hesperia 85(2016) 627-655.

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.

G. T. Martin, “The Lapis Lazuli Scarab from Grave Circle B at Mycenae,” in E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman, and A. Schwab (eds.), Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak (Leuven 2006) II: 191-196.

A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “The Body and the Ring: Metal Rings and Social Structures in the Late Bronze Age Aegean,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 201-224.

S. R. Stocker and J. L. Davis, “The Combat Agate from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos,” Hesperia 86(2017) 583-605.

V. Stürmer, “Zur Ikonographie des Kampfes auf dem Siegelring, CMS I, no. 16,” OpAth 14(1982) 111-118.


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