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Classics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script: A Review Article
(Minos, 1999)This study reviews the state of knowledge about the Cretan Pictographic script (ca. 1700 BCE) after the definitive publication of the corpus in Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (1996). -
Eight Sealstones and a Sealing from the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos
(British School of Archaeology, Athens, 1979)This study presents 8 sealstones and a sealing that were found in boxes in the Stratigraphical Museum, Knossos, and lays out the Jasper Lion Group. -
The Lapidary's Workshop at Knossos
(British School of Archaeology, Athens, 1979)This study examines the tools found in the Lapidary's Workshop at Knossos and recreates the technique of creating gold seals and finger rings. -
A Glyptic Sketch from Isopata, HM 908
(Kadmos, 1974)This short study examines the dashed sketch of a suckling kid on a sealstone from Isopata, Knossos (LM IIIA:1 context) and draws conclusions on how seals were created. -
Aegean Seals of the Late Bronze Age: Stylistic Groups VII. Concordance
(Kadmos, 1989)This is an updated version of the original concordance to the series of articles in Kadmos that attributed Minoan-Mycenaean seals and rings to stylistic groups. -
The Vapheio Gems: A Reconsideration of the Find-Spots
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1973-07)In answer to a controversy about the actual number of sealstones found in the Vapheio Tholos, this short article examines the original excavation report (in Greek) and concludes that 28 (or 29) seals came from the cist (LH ... -
Review of Negotiating Island Identities: the Use of Pottery in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cyclades, by Ina Berg
(Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2009-10)Book review. -
The Aegean Bard: Evidence for Sound and Song.
(Liège & Austin: Université de Liège, University of Texas-Austin., 2007)A study of Aegean (prehistoric Greek) music, the evidence for the phorminx (concert lyre), singing, theory and scores, and the possibility of lyric meter in Linear B and of the Phaistos Disc recording a song/hymn. -
Seals and Sealing Rings
(Oxford University Press, 2010)A short encyclopedia entry about seals and signet rings, and their use, from antiquity to modernity. -
Women and Children on the Ara Pacis Augustae
(2004)This paper explores the possibility of identifying all the figures on the Ara Pacis, and concludes that it is not possible, especially since the women and children are not organized by families. -
Tree Tugging and Omphalos Hugging on Minoan Gold Rings
(American School of Classical Studies at Athens., 2009)This study describes the author's participation in the excavations at Phylakopi, Mycenaean Sanctuary, and the discovery there of an omphalos on a paved court corresponding to depictions on earlier gold finger rings. -
A Minoan Roundel from Pyrgos, Southeastern Crete
(Kadmos, 1995)The authors found a Linear A roundel at the Minoan site of Myrtos Pyrgos, dating ca. 1600 BCE; the clay document is inscribed on both sides and is impressed around the rim by two sealstones. The authors give a description ... -
Calculating Vessel Volumes
(Aegaeum. Université de Liège, 2003)This summarizes a demonstration at the "Metron" conference (April 2002, Yale University), using a computer program to calculate the capacity of pots drawn on the computer screen and then given one dimension (e.g., its ... -
Review of The Origin of Aphrodite, by Stephanie Lynn Budin (Bethesda: CDL Press 2003) for Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68.4 (October 2009) 1-2.
(Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2009-10)Review of a book by Stephanie Budin on the origins of the goddess Aphrodite. -
review of: A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World, edited by Yves Duhous and Anna Morporgo Davies, Louvain & Dudley MA: Peeters 2008
(American Journal of Archaeology, 2009-10)a review of an edited volume of essays on the state of Linear B (Mycenaean) studies. -
Gender and Sexuality in the Parthenon Frieze
(Routledge, 1997)This study examines the gendered roles of people in the Parthenon frieze against the background of idealized gender and sexual roles in 5th century BCE Athens. -
Calculating Vessel Volumes
(Aegaeum: Liège and Austin., 2003)This report of a poster displayed during the Metron Conference in New Haven CT (April 2003) presents the results of a computer program that calculates the volumes of pots when their profile is drawn on a computer screen ... -
The Construction of Gender in Late Bronze Age Aegean Art. A Prolegomenon
(ANH Publications, 1999)This paper lays out the main categories of analysis when discussing gender in Aegean art: skin color, body types, hairstyles. costume, jewelry, and scale, position, pose, and gesture. -
Architectural Elements and Sculptures
(Eisenbrauns for The American Schools of Oriental Research., 2009)This study presents the architecture and sculpture from the late Roman (2nd-3rd century CE) synagogue at Nabratein in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. Of particular interest is the pediment for a Torah shrine decorated ... -
Education and Scholarship
(St. James Press, 1998)This study presents a history and discussion of gay and lesbian studies in US colleges and universities.