Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

• Introduction ; Jeremy Bentham Rutter: Bibliography ; Memorandum on the Occasion of Jeremy B. Rutter’s Retirement from Dartmouth College ; David A. Aston: The LH IIIA2–IIIB Transition: The Gurob and Saqqara Evidence Reassessed ; Mario Benzi: Daskalio (Vathy), Kalymnos: A Late Bronze I Sacred Cave in the East Aegean ; Philip P. Betancourt: The Diagonal Line Class Juglets: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos ; T.M. Brogan, Ch. Sofianou, and J.E. Morrison: In Search of the Upper Story of LM I House A.1 at Papadiokampos: An Integrated Architectural and Ceramic Perspective ; William Cavanagh and Christopher Mee: Minding the Gaps in Early Helladic Laconia ; Anna Lucia D’Agata: Subminoan: A Neglected Phase of the Cretan Pottery Sequence ; Jeannette Forsén: Spoons to Fill the Cups ; Elizabeth French: The Stirrup Jar: Does the West House Evidence Help or Complicate the Problems? ; Walter GauSS, Michael Lindblom, and Rudolfine Smetana: The Middle Helladic Large Building Complex at Kolonna. A Preliminary View ; Giampaolo Graziadio: Cretan Perfumed Oils at Enkomi (Cyprus) in the 13th Century B.C.? ; Seán Hemingway: Early Helladic Vases from Zygouries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cultural Ambassadors of an Early Age ; Stefan Hiller: Palm and Altar ; N. Hirschfeld: The Cypriot Ceramic Cargo of the Uluburun Shipwreck ; Reinhard Jung: Mycenaean Vending Cups in Syria? Thoughts about the Unpainted Mycenaean Pottery from Tell Kazel ; V. La Rosa: Preliminary Remarks about the Pottery from the So-called Grande Frana at Phaistos ; Michael Lindblom and Sturt W. Manning: The Chronology of the Lerna Shaft Graves ; Bartłomiej Lis and Štěpán Rückl: Our Storerooms Are Full. Impressed Pithoi from Late Bronze/Early Iron Age East Lokris and Phokis and their Socio-economic Significance ; Joseph Maran: Contested Pasts—The Society of the 12th c. B.C.E. Argolid and the Memory of the Mycenaean Palatial Period ; P. A. Mountjoy: An Update on the Provenance by Neutron Activation Analysis of Near Eastern Mycenaean IIIC Pottery Groups with Particular Reference to Cyprus ; John K. Papadopoulos, Brian N. Damiata, and John M. Marston: Once More with Feeling: Jeremy Rutter’s Plea for the Abandonment of the Term Submycenaean Revisited ; A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais: Fragments of the Pottery Equipment of an Early Middle Helladic Household from Aspis, Argos ; Daniel J. Pullen: Picking out Pots in Patterns: Feasting in Early Helladic Greece ; Florian Ruppenstein: Early Helladic Peak Sanctuaries in Attica? ; Robert Schon: Vox Clamantis in Campo: Further Thoughts on Ceramics and Site Survey ; Maria C. Shaw: A Decorated Minoan Pyxis from House X at Kommos ; Cynthia W. Shelmerdine: The ‘Friendly Krater’ from Iklaina ; Susan Sherratt: Learning to Learn from Bronze Age Pots: A Perspective on Forty Years of Aegean Ceramic Studies in the Work of J.B. Rutter ; R. Angus K. Smith: A Unique Late Minoan III Ring-shaped Vase from the Myrsini Aspropilia Cemetery ; Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis: The Cyclades and Pylos: An Early Bronze Age Stone Pyxis from Ali Chodza ; Philipp W. Stockhammer: An Aegean Glance at Megiddo ; Patrick M. Thomas: Mycenaean Tablewares and the Curious Careers of the Angular Kylix and Shallow Angular Basin ; A. Van de Moortel: The Phaistos Palace and the Kamares Cave: A Special Relationship ; Melissa Vetters: Seats of Power? Making the Most of Miniatures—The Role of Terracotta Throne Models in Disseminating Mycenaean Religious Ideology ; Salvatore Vitale: The Late Helladic IIIA2 Pottery from Mitrou and its Implications for the Chronology of the Mycenaean Mainland ; Martha Heath Wiencke: “Ceremonial Lerna” ; Malcolm H. Wiener: Conical Cups: From Mystery to History ; James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney: Interpreting Quantitative Analyses of Mycenaean Pottery ; Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Inbal Samet: Our Cups Overfloweth: “Kabri Goblets” and Canaanite Feasts in the Middle Bronze Age Levant

This Festschrift is remarkably rich in content, a volume full of insightful papers which illustrate well the many new directions of research in Aegean pottery studies. This is a proper tribute to Jeremy B. Rutter. -- Judit Haas-Lebegyev Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.02.41