Great Islands

Colin Macdonald – Archaeologist, British School at AthensEleni Hatzaki – Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of CincinnatiStelios Andreou – History-Archaeology Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• CONTENTSPREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABBREVIATIONSPoem by MIRIAM CASKEYThe seventies may come and go, a major landmark with all the showMantinada by PAUL HALSTEADΤο παράπονο των ΤζεραλντισμένωνSOME REMINISCENCESSINCLAIR HOOD, VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS, HUGH SACKETT, STELIOS ANDREOU,MARIA IACOVOU, NICOLETTA MOMIGLIANO, ANJA ULBRICH, SILVIA FERRARAPART I: MYRTOS PYRGOS, CRETE AND THE AEGEANPAUL HALSTEAD and VALASIA ISAAKIDOU Good people of Eastern CretePETER WARREN In divino veritas. Remarks on the conceptualization and representation of divinity in Bronze Age CreteTODD WHITELAW  The divergence of civilisation: Fournou Korifi and PyrgosELENI HATZAKI  Ceramic production and consumption at the Neopalatial settlement of Myrtos–Pyrgos: the case of ‘in-and-out’ bowlsEMILIA ODDO  Cross-joins and archaeological sections. The Myrtos–Pyrgos cistern: reconstructing a Neopalatial stratigraphyCARL KNAPPETT  Palatial and provincial pottery revisitedJOHN YOUNGER  The Myrtos–Pyrgos and Gournia roundels inscribed in Linea A: Suffixes, prefixes, and a journey to SymeJUDITH WEINGARTEN  Old, worn, and obscured: Stamped pot handles at PyrgosBORJA LEGARRA HERRERO  A square tomb with a round soul. The Myrtos–Pyrgos tomb in the funerary context of Middle Bronze Age CreteJONATHAN H. MUSGRAVE Myrtos–Pyrgos: A snapshot of dental and skeletal health in Bronze Age CreteARGYRO NAFPLIOTI  Evidence for residential mobility at Myrtos–PyrgosALEXANDRA KARETSOU and ANNA MARGHERITA JASINK  A Hieroglyphic seal from the Juktas Peak SanctuaryOLGA KRZYSZKOWSKA  Why were cats different? Script and imagery in Middle Minoan II glypticMARINA PANAGIOTAKI Egyptian Blue: The substance of eternityJAMES D. MUHLY AND PHILIP P. BETANCOURT  Lapis lazuli in the Greek Bronze AgeCOLIN F. MACDONALD  ‘Things are seldom what they seem’. Some Middle Minoan rooms with gypsum pillars at KnossosMALCOLM H. WIENER  The Mycenaean conquest of Minoan CreteKATERINA KOPAKA  Minos Kalokairinos and his early excavations at Knossos. An overview, a portrait, and a return to the Kephala pithoi† STYLIANOS ALEXIOU  The naval wall-painting of TheraHARRIET BLITZER  On goat hairDAVID WILSON  The Early Bronze II seal impressions from Ayia Irini, Kea: Their context, pan-Aegean links, and meaningJACK L. DAVIS AND SHARON R. STOCKER  Crete, Messenia, and the date of Tholos IV at PylosL. VANCE WATROUS  Bronze Age past and present in Classical GreecePART II: MARONI VOURNES AND CYPRUSDAVID A. SEWELL  The seafarers of MaroniJAN DRIESSEN  A power building at Maroni–VournesSTURT MANNING  Two notes on Myrtos–Pyrgos and Maroni–Vournes. 1. The date of the destruction of the country house at Myrtos–Pyrgos. 2. The spatial setting of Maroni–VournesCAROL BELL  Maroni–Vournes Mycenaean wares: a very pictorial assemblageSILVIA FERRARA  Cypriot inscriptions, pot-marks, and all things unreadable: Maroni–Vournes and beyondANJA ULBRICH  Maroni–Vournes beyond the Bronze Age: Investigating an Archaic to Hellenistic shrineALISON SOUTH  Neighbours or rivals: Buildings and people at Kalavasos and MaroniDIANE BOLGER  Were they all women? Gender and pottery production in prehistoric CyprusGEORGE PAPASAVVAS AND VASILIKI KASSIANIDOU The new status of copper and bronze on Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze AgeMURRAY C. MCCLELLAN AND PAMELA J. RUSSELL  Regifting, Cesnola-style: The case of a Cypriot votive head at Amherst CollegeGerald Cadogan—BibliographyIndex