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372 pages

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Published Oct 2023

Archaeopress Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781803275338

Digital: 9781803275345

DOI 10.32028/9781803275338

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Aegean Prehistory; Bronze Age; Crete; Cyclades; Greece; Near East; Egypt

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Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

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Contents

Introduction: Processions

Tributes

Robert B. Koehl: Publications

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Crete

Processions Aplenty: From Elite Palatial Parades to Mass Population Pilgrimages in Middle and
Late Minoan Crete ??? Malcolm H. Wiener

Processions in Aegean Iconography III: Where did they Take Place? ??? Fritz Blakolmer

The Theatral Area of Knossos ??? Colin Macdonald

The Kilts on the ???Cupbearer??? and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos ??? Bernice R. Jones and Valerie Bealle

Minoan Processions Leading to Marvelous Destinations at Mochlos ??? Jeffrey S. Soles

Dressed Bodies in Motion: Toward a Sensorial Understanding of Funerary Ritual in Prepalatial Crete ??? Cynthia S. Colburn

Dance or Procession? A Ritual Scene on a Fruit-stand from Protopalatial Phaistos, Crete ??? Luca Girella

Rhyton Clusters in Neopalatial East Crete: Identity and the Ceremonial Prerogatives of the House ??? Brian S. Kunkel

Reaper???s Rout or Mariner???s March? Reconsidering the ???Harvester??? Vase from Ayia Triada ??? J. A. MacGillivray

Deimatic Display or Nature???s Apotropaia: The Meaning and Function of the Octopus Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean ??? Michele Mitrovich

From Deep Waters to High Places: Reassessing the Ceremonial Significance of Triton-shells at Neolithic Phaistos (Crete) ??? Simona V. Todaro

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The Cyclades

The Armed Warriors Procession: 1000 Years of Iconographic Development ??? Philip P. Betancourt

Rhyta at Bronze Age Phylakopi on Melos ??? Jason W. Earle

Ocular Signs of Ecstatic Possession and Procession in Aegean Art ??? Karen Polinger Foster

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Greek Mainland

Late Bronze Age Iklaina and Processional Architecture ??? Michael Nelson

Tribute from the Griffin Warrior at Pylos ??? Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker

Processions in non-palatial Contexts: Social Ambitions and Narrative Idioms in Mycenaean Greece ??? Iphiyenia Tournavitou

Processions, Participants, People, and the Palace: Musings from Fragments ??? James C. Wright

The Creature of the Rings: An Unusual Jug Rhyton from LH IIIC Tiryns ??? Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran, and Alkestis Papadimitriou

The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet ??? Thomas G. Palaima

Evoking the Deceased in Mycenaean Mortuary Ritual ??? Mary K. Dabney

?????? For at this Place the Sea Comes Nearest to Athens.??? Funerary Processions in Archaic Athens ??? Stella Chryssoulaki and Ioannis Pappas

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Cyprus, Syria, the Levant, and Egypt

From Stasis to Repetition: Tracing Processional Movements in Prehistoric Cyprus ??? Eleni Mantzourani

Approaching Divinity in the Near East and the Aegean:??Animals, Monsters, Demons, and Masked
Human Processions ??? Joan Aruz and Judith Weingarten

A Snapshot of a Victory Procession:??A Winged Deity from Alalakh Wielding a Dagger ??? K. Asl??han Yener

The Iron Age Adventures of the God with the Fenestrated Axe ??? Assaf Yasur-Landau

Offerings for Eternity: Egypt, Nubia, and the Puzzle of the Egyptian Faience Vessel from Alalakh ??? Morena Stefanova

A Courtly Affair: Proceeding from Keftiu and ???all Islands in the Middle??? to the Theban Necropolis ??? Nisha Kumar

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