Books published by INSTAP Academic Press

Examines ancient Egyptian artifacts from a shrine of the Minoan-Greek goddess Eileithyia.

This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant and 13 other structures. Each building is described with its stratigraphy, architecture, small finds, ecofactual materials, function, and room use.

Presents the fascinating discoveries from the salvage excavation of a Minoan settlement at Bramiana in southeastern Crete.

Archaeometallurgy survey and excavation of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Goeltepe, and its associated tin mine, Kestel, are presented. The results of the surface surveys, test pit operations, profile trenches, and excavation finds demonstrate that processing of cassiterite-rich ore was the primary function of activities at Goeltepe.

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. To date two hundred and thirty-two chamber tombs have been excavated. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. It was very rich in finds, which include more than 800 decorated vases, significant bronzes, painted larnakes, a boar¿s tooth helmet and a stirrup jar with a Linear B inscription, and there is evidence for the remains of up to a thousand individuals. The volume presents the background and history of the site, describes and illustrates the most important finds. Field surveys and a geophysical survey were carried out with the goal of discovering the wealthy town which built the necropolis, and this was accomplished. Catalogues of the Minoan finds, and also the oft-overlooked Roman and Byzantine ones, from the surveys are included. Chapters on the topographical and the geological settings of the necropolis are presented, as well as a proposed method for tomb construction, a potential metal resource, and a chapter which discusses Armenoi, Western Crete and the Linear B tablets from Knossos.

The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja in Linear B, was chosen because it means ¿potter¿ (?e??¿e?a, from Greek ???a¿??, ¿potter¿s clay¿) and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine¿s scholarship: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way. The intellectual content of the essays demonstrate not only that her research has had wide-ranging influence, but also that it is a model of scholarship to be emulated.