Processions : : Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony Presented to Robert B. Koehl.

• VerfasserIn: Weingarten, Judith,
• TeilnehmendeR: Macdonald, Colin F.; Aruz, Joan.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 pages)

Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

Table of Contents

Front Matter(pp. ) -- Table of Contents(pp. i-iii) -- List of Contributors(pp. iv-v) -- Introduction: Processions(pp. vii-xi) -- Tributes(pp. xiii-xviii) -- Robert B. Koehl: Publications(pp. xix-xxi) -- Processions Aplenty: From Elite Palatial Parades to Mass Population Pilgrimages in Middle and Late Minoan Crete(pp. 3-7) -- Malcolm H. Wiener -- Processions in Aegean Iconography III: Where did they Take Place?(pp. 8-18) -- Fritz Blakolmer -- The Theatral Area of Knossos(pp. 19-28) -- Colin Macdonald -- The Kilts on the 'Cupbearer' and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos(pp. 29-40) -- Bernice R. Jones and Valerie Bealle -- Minoan Processions Leading to Marvelous Destinations at Mochlos(pp. 41-46) -- Jeffrey S. Soles -- Dressed Bodies in Motion: Toward a Sensorial Understanding of Funerary Ritual in Prepalatial Crete(pp. 47-57) -- Cynthia S. Colburn -- Dance or Procession? A Ritual Scene on a Fruit-stand from Protopalatial Phaistos, Crete(pp. 58-66) -- Luca Girella -- Rhyton Clusters in Neopalatial East Crete: Identity and the Ceremonial Prerogatives of the House(pp. 67-80) -- Brian S. Kunkel -- Reaper's Rout or Mariner's March? Reconsidering the 'Harvester' Vase from Ayia Triada(pp. 81-90) -- J. A. MacGillivray -- Deimatic Display or Nature's Apotropaia: The Meaning and Function of the Octopus Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean(pp. 91-113) -- Michele Mitrovich -- From Deep Waters to High Places: Reassessing the Ceremonial Significance of Triton-shells at Neolithic Phaistos (Crete)(pp. 114-125) -- Simona V. Todaro -- The Armed Warriors Procession: 1000 Years of Iconographic Development(pp. 129-133) -- Philip P. Betancourt -- Rhyta at Bronze Age Phylakopi on Melos(pp. 134-146) -- Jason W. Earle -- Ocular Signs of Ecstatic Possession and Procession in Aegean Art(pp. 147-157) -- Karen Polinger Foster -- Late Bronze Age Iklaina and Processional Architecture(pp. 161-170) -- Michael Nelson -- Tribute from the Griffin Warrior at Pylos(pp. 171-177) -- Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker -- Processions in non-palatial Contexts: Social Ambitions and Narrative Idioms in Mycenaean Greece(pp. 178-193) -- Iphiyenia Tournavitou -- Processions, Participants, People, and the Palace: Musings from Fragments(pp. 194-202) -- James C. Wright -- The Creature of the Rings: An Unusual Jug Rhyton from LH IIIC Tiryns(pp. 203-221) -- Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran and Alkestis Papadimitriou -- The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet(pp. 222-233) -- Thomas G. Palaima -- Evoking the Deceased in Mycenaean Mortuary Ritual(pp. 234-238) -- Mary K. Dabney -- '... For at this Place the Sea Comes Nearest to Athens.' Funerary Processions in Archaic Athens(pp. 239-249) -- Stella Chryssoulaki and Ioannis Pappas -- From Stasis to Repetition: Tracing Processional Movements in Prehistoric Cyprus(pp. 253-264) -- Eleni Mantzourani -- Approaching Divinity in the Near East and the Aegean: Animals, Monsters, Demons, and Masked Human Processions(pp. 265-287) -- Joan Aruz and Judith Weingarten -- A Snapshot of a Victory Procession: A Winged Deity from Alalakh Wielding a Dagger(pp. 288-292) -- K. Aslıhan Yener -- The Iron Age Adventures of the God with the Fenestrated Axe(pp. 293-299) -- Assaf Yasur-Landau -- Offerings for Eternity: Egypt, Nubia, and the Puzzle of the Egyptian Faience Vessel from Alalakh(pp. 300-310) -- Morena Stefanova -- A Courtly Affair: Proceeding from Keftiu and 'all Islands in the Middle' to the Theban Necropolis(pp. 311-322) -- Nisha Kumar -- Clues of Bronze Age Processions in the Central Mediterranean(pp. 325-344) -- Marco Bettelli, Elisabetta Borgna and Sara Tiziana Levi.