Aegis: Essays in Mediterranean Archaeology: Essays in Mediterranean Archaeology: Presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK

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The Founder of GACUK Matti Egon with the ‘unusual bouquet’ offered by the scholars.
The Founder of GACUK Matti Egon with the ‘unusual bouquet’ offered by the scholars.
The scholars of GACUK and its Founder Matti Egon
The scholars of GACUK and its Founder Matti Egon, the Chair Zetta Theodoropoulou and the Treasurer Panos Arvanitakis in the garden of the BSA, September 2014.
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
The value of digital recordings and reconstructions for the understanding of three-dimensional archaeological features
The value of digital recordings and reconstructions for the understanding of three-dimensional archaeological features
	Constantinos Papadopoulos
Fig. 1. 3D models of the figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, without an accurate representation of colour and texture. Laser scanned with Konica Minolta Vivid 9i in 2010.
Fig. 2. 3D models of a figurine from Koutroulou Magoula (Trench Θ4 703/07) with problems in the depiction of geometry, colour and texture. Laser Scanned with Creaform VIUScanner in 2014.
Fig. 3. A. 3D model of Building 1 from Koutroulou Magoula; B. 3D model of Building 2 from Koutroulou Magoula. Photogrammetry application with Agisoft Photoscan in 2012.
Fig. 4. Homemade light box with 3 LED lights for photographing and producing 3D models of the figurines from Koutroulou Magoula; 3D model of figurine Θ4 703/07 produced in Agisoft Photoscan.
Fig. 5. The exterior and interior of Building 1 at Koutroulou Magoula, with three different types of roof and the corresponding supporting beams. Top to bottom: Flat/slightly gabled roof; Gabled roof; Saddle roof.
Fig. 6. The interior of Building 1 at Koutroulou Magoula, at night time with human figures around the hearth.
Fig. 7. The ‘window of light’ in the interior of Building 1 at Koutroulou Magoula.
The contribution of systematic zooarchaeological analysis in understanding the complexity of prehistoric societies
The contribution of systematic zooarchaeological analysis in understanding the complexity of prehistoric societies
The example of late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis-Koiladas in northern Greece
The example of late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis-Koiladas in northern Greece
	Vasiliki Tzevelekidi
Fig. 1. Plan of the 1998–1999 excavation campaign at TKK. (after Hondrogianni-Metoki 2009).
Fig. 2. Location of two sheep skeletons found in Pit 225. (photograph courtesy of A. Hondrogianni-Metoki).
Fig. 3. Location of the pig skeleton, accompanied by the skull of a dog in Pit 132. (photograph courtesy of A. Hondrogianni-Metoki).
A preliminary technological and provenance assessment of the Early Bronze Age II late to III (c. 2500–2000 BC) pottery
		Sergios Menelaou
A preliminary technological and provenance assessment of the Early Bronze Age II late to III (c. 2500–2000 BC) pottery
The Heraion of Samos under the microscope
The Heraion of Samos under the microscope
Fig 1. a-f. Micrographs: (a) Fabric 1b, Fine mica and monocrystalline quartz; (b) Fabric 2: Coarse quartz and muscovite mica; (c) Fabric 3: Well-rounded volcanic inclusions; (d) Fabric 4a: Muscovite-schist fragment; (e) HT12/06: Rounded basalt with porphy
Time past and time present: the emergence of the Minoan palaces as a transformation of temporality
	Giorgos Vavouranakis
Fig. 1. Map of Cyprus with sites mentioned in the text. (Data provided by the Cyprus Geological Survey Department).
Palaepaphos during the Late Bronze Age: characterizing the urban landscape of a late Cypriot polity
	Artemis Georgiou
Palaepaphos during the Late Bronze Age: characterizing the urban landscape of a late Cypriot polity
Fig. 2. Landscape map of Kouklia showing the four main plateaus on to which the urban polity of Palaepaphos developed.
Fig. 3. Orthophoto map of Kouklia with localities mentioned in the text.
Fig. 4. Map of the Paphos hydrological zone, showing the distribution of Middle Cypriot III-Late Cypriot IA sites, the Upper and Lower Pillow Lavas and the distribution of slag heaps in the Paphos forest.
Fig. 5. The remains of the megalithic Sanctuary at Palaepaphos with the preserved monolithic blocks.
Fig. 6. A “Teratsoudhia ware” jug found at Tomb 104, Chamber B at Palaepaphos-Teratsoudhia.
the archaeology of children and death in LH IIIC Greece
the archaeology of children and death in LH IIIC Greece
	Chrysanthi Gallou-Minopetrou
‘What would the world be to us if the children were no more?’:1
‘What would the world be to us if the children were no more?’:1
Fig. 1. Drawing of side B of a larnax from Tomb 3 at Tanagra. This depicts the preparation of a dead child for burial.
Fig. 2. Drawing of a child’s prothesis scene on the lower panel of the short end of a larnax from tomb 22 at Tanagra.
The Late Helladic IIIC period in coastal Thessaly
The Late Helladic IIIC period in coastal Thessaly
	Eleni Karouzou
Fig. 1.   Distribution maps of Late Helladic IIIC (top, a) and Sub-Mycenaean (bottom, b) sites around the Pagasetic Gulf.
Fig. 2.   a-f.  Pottery fragments decorated in the LH IIIC Middle Pictorial Style from the settlement at Kastro, Volos (not to scale)
Fig. 3.   Plans of the excavation of D. Theocharis at the settlement at Kastro, Volos
Fig. 4.   Plan of LH IIIC cist tombs (a: Tomb 56, b: Tomb 57) from the cemetery at Nea Ionia, Volos
Fig. 5. Aerial photograph indicating the location of site 1990/35 and the cist grave cemetery with inhumations at Voulokaliva
Fig. 6. S (a, top) and N (b, bottom) part of the cist grave cemetery with inhumations (LH IIB-SPG) at Voulokaliva in the Almiros plain
The Bronze Age on Karpathos and Kythera
	Mercourios Georgiadis
East Phokis revisited: its development in the transition  from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the light of the latest finds
	Antonia Livieratou
East Phokis revisited: its development in the transition  from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the light of the latest finds
Fig. 1. East Phokis and neighbouring areas
Fig. 2. East Phokis in the Late Bronze Age
Fig. 3. East Phokis in the Submycenaean period
Fig. 4. East Phokis in the Protogeometric period
Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper
	Vana Orfanou
Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper
Fig. 1. Photomicrograph of the cross-section of a folded metal sheet (no. 1309); plain polarised light, 25x, image length 7mm.
Fig. 2. Back-scatter image with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) of ring AE 34, showing growth corrosion on the ring’s surface (patina, dark grey), a corroded layer in the substrate (medium grey) distinguished by a thin corrosion layer (white line) wh
Fig. 3. Typical Thessalian bow fibula M 1909 with decoration of alternate globes and disks, long catch-plate and a spring on the fibula’s ‘arm’ to support the ‘foot’, namely the long wire which secured into the catch-plate; samples of this type of object
Fig. 4. Chronological distribution of the diagnostic fibulae in the sample (n= 110) according to their typology which covers the time span from the Early Geometric to the Archaic periods (825–600 BC); absolute dating for Thessaly after Coldstream (2003) a
Fig. 5. Photomicrograph of sheet/vessel fragment AE 606: a dendritic structure surrounded by corrosion products is visible; plain polarised light, 100x, image length 1.8 mm
Fig. 6. Photomicrograph of sheet M 1217.2: a recrystallised grain microstructure with annealing twins and slip lines is visible; plain polarised light, 500x, image length 350 μm (=0.35 mm)
Funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life
Funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life
	Eleftheria Pappa
Representations of western Phoenician eschatology
Fig. 1 Map of settlements and necropoleis in coastal Malaga and Granada.
Fig. 2 Sections of tombs at Laurita. (After Pappa 2013, fig. 32; adapted from the original by Pellicer Catalán 2007, fig. 13).
Fig. 3 Table of finds based on information from Pellicer Catalan (2007, fig. 76, supplemented with information from 55–71, fig. 76, 97, lám. XIII)
a. Wall painting of the two ‘nefesh’ monuments of 4th c. BCE tomb at Jebel Mlezza, Kerkoune, Tunisia. Ostrich eggshell vase from Laurita with bird decoration (adapted from: a.  Pellicer Catalán 2007, fig. 85, by permission of Prof. M.E. Aubet);   b.  Fant
Piraeus: beyond ‘known unknowns’
Piraeus: beyond ‘known unknowns’
		Florentia Fragkopoulou
Table 1. Material from rescue excavations conducted from the 1950’s onwards in modern Piraeus according to the Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον.
The casting technique of the bronze Antikythera ephebe
	Kosmas Dafas
The casting technique of the bronze Antikythera ephebe
Fig. 1. The Antikythera ephebe: front view.
Fig. 2. The Antikythera ephebe: rear view.
Fig. 3. The Antikythera ephebe: front view of the head.
Fig. 4. The Antikythera ephebe: detail of the right hand.
Fig. 5. The Antikythera ephebe: front view with drawing of the ancient seams/joins of the statue.
Fig. 6. The Antikythera ephebe: detail of the right foot.
A brief, phenomenological reading of the Arkteia
	Chryssanthi Papadopoulou
Cylindrical altars and post-funerary ritual in the south-eastern Aegean during the Hellenistic period: 3rd to 2nd centuries BC
	Vasiliki Brouma
Cylindrical altars and post-funerary ritual in the south-eastern Aegean during the Hellenistic period: 3rd to 2nd centuries BC
Fig. 1. Cylindrical altars from Rhodes (left) and Kos (right).
Fig. 2. Plans of the tomb of Archokrates.
Fig. 3. Peribolos with restored cylindrical altars at Korakonero, Rhodes.
Fig. 4. Cylindrical altars at Peros plot, Excavation area A.
Lamps, symbolism and ritual in Hellenistic Greece
	Nikolas Dimakis
In search of the garden-peristyle in Hellenistic palaces:  a reappraisal of the evidence
	Maria Kopsacheili
In search of the garden-peristyle in Hellenistic palaces:  a reappraisal of the evidence
Fig. 1. Comparison of the Hellenistic palace peristyle courtyards mentioned in the text: size and proportion to total surface, floor type and date (by author). The Doric peristyle in Ai Khanoum cannot be compared to a building section, as it is by itself
Fig. 2. Building I, basileion of Pella, reconstruction at foundation level
Fig. 3. Palace on the Acropolis, Jebel Khalid
Fig. 4. Palace V, Pergamon
Fig. 5. Section through the northern part of the peristyle courtyard of Section A, in the palace of Demetrias
Fig. 6. House of the Faun, original construction phase
Damophon in Olympia: some remarks on his date
	Eleni Poimenidou
Entering the monastic cell in the Byzantine world: archaeology and texts
	Giorgos Makris
Entering the monastic cell in the Byzantine world: archaeology and texts
Fig. 1 Monastery of Hosios Meletios, plan
Fig. 2 Monastery of Sagmata, monastic cell of the west wing
Fig. 3 Monastery of the Panaghia Paregoretissa, monastic cells of the east wing
Fig. 4 Monastery of St George Diasorites, aerial view
Fig. 5 Monastery at Synaxis, north side, looking east
Fig. 6 Monastery at Synaxis, north side, looking west
Discovering the Byzantine countryside: the evidence from archaeological field survey in the Peloponnese
Discovering the Byzantine countryside: the evidence from archaeological field survey in the Peloponnese
	Maria Papadaki
Fig. 1.   The locations of the field surveys in the Peloponnese.
Fig. 2.   Comparison chart for inland and coastal surveyed sites (Maria Papadaki).
Fig. 1. Kursī, carved wood, general view. Egypt, 11th century AD. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
On a Fāṭimid Kursī in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai
On a Fāṭimid Kursī in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai
	George Manginis
Fig. 2. Kursī, carved wood, side A. Egypt, 11th century. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
Fig. 3. Kursī, carved wood, side B. Egypt, 11th century. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
Fig. 4. Kursī, carved wood, side C. Egypt, 11th century. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
Fig. 5. Kursī, carved wood, side D. Egypt, 11th century. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.
Fig. 6. The conjunction of the Moon and Saturn, from a treatise in Persian on astrology, angels and talismans (BN persan 174, folio 109v). Seljuk Anatolia, 1272–1273. © Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Fig. 7. Prayer niche (lower right). Hagia Koryphē is visible in the distance. October 1998.
The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day
	Anastasia Leriou
Showcasing new Trojan wars: archaeological exhibitions and the politics of appropriation of ancient Troy
Showcasing new Trojan wars: archaeological exhibitions and the politics of appropriation of ancient Troy
	Antonis Kotsonas
Fig. 1. Cover of catalogue for the German exhibitions in Stuttgart, Braunschweig and Bonn (2001–2002).
Fig. 2. Cover of catalogue for the Istanbul exhibition (2002–2003).
Fig. 3. Cover of catalogue for the exhibition held in Amsterdam (2012–2013).