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

Introduction: Processions


Tributes


Robert B. Koehl: Publications


 


Crete


Processions Aplenty: From Elite Palatial Parades to Mass Population Pilgrimages in Middle and

Late Minoan Crete – Malcolm H. Wiener


Processions in Aegean Iconography III: Where did they Take Place? – Fritz Blakolmer


The Theatral Area of Knossos – Colin Macdonald


The Kilts on the ‘Cupbearer’ and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos – Bernice R. Jones and Valerie Bealle


Minoan Processions Leading to Marvelous Destinations at Mochlos – Jeffrey S. Soles


Dressed Bodies in Motion: Toward a Sensorial Understanding of Funerary Ritual in Prepalatial Crete – Cynthia S. Colburn


Dance or Procession? A Ritual Scene on a Fruit-stand from Protopalatial Phaistos, Crete – Luca Girella


Rhyton Clusters in Neopalatial East Crete: Identity and the Ceremonial Prerogatives of the House – Brian S. Kunkel


Reaper’s Rout or Mariner’s March? Reconsidering the ‘Harvester’ Vase from Ayia Triada – J. A. MacGillivray


Deimatic Display or Nature’s Apotropaia: The Meaning and Function of the Octopus Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean – Michele Mitrovich


From Deep Waters to High Places: Reassessing the Ceremonial Significance of Triton-shells at Neolithic Phaistos (Crete) – Simona V. Todaro


 


The Cyclades


The Armed Warriors Procession: 1000 Years of Iconographic Development – Philip P. Betancourt


Rhyta at Bronze Age Phylakopi on Melos – Jason W. Earle


Ocular Signs of Ecstatic Possession and Procession in Aegean Art – Karen Polinger Foster


 


Greek Mainland


Late Bronze Age Iklaina and Processional Architecture – Michael Nelson


Tribute from the Griffin Warrior at Pylos – Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker


Processions in non-palatial Contexts: Social Ambitions and Narrative Idioms in Mycenaean Greece – Iphiyenia Tournavitou


Processions, Participants, People, and the Palace: Musings from Fragments – James C. Wright


The Creature of the Rings: An Unusual Jug Rhyton from LH IIIC Tiryns – Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran, and Alkestis Papadimitriou


The Pylos Ta Series and the Process of Inventorying Ritual Objects for a Funerary Banquet – Thomas G. Palaima


Evoking the Deceased in Mycenaean Mortuary Ritual – Mary K. Dabney


‘… For at this Place the Sea Comes Nearest to Athens.’ Funerary Processions in Archaic Athens – Stella Chryssoulaki and Ioannis Pappas


 


Cyprus, Syria, the Levant, and Egypt


From Stasis to Repetition: Tracing Processional Movements in Prehistoric Cyprus – Eleni Mantzourani


Approaching Divinity in the Near East and the Aegean: Animals, Monsters, Demons, and Masked

Human Processions – Joan Aruz and Judith Weingarten


A Snapshot of a Victory Procession: A Winged Deity from Alalakh Wielding a Dagger – K. Aslıhan Yener


The Iron Age Adventures of the God with the Fenestrated Axe – Assaf Yasur-Landau


Offerings for Eternity: Egypt, Nubia, and the Puzzle of the Egyptian Faience Vessel from Alalakh – Morena Stefanova


A Courtly Affair: Proceeding from Keftiu and ‘all Islands in the Middle’ to the Theban Necropolis – Nisha Kumar


 


Italy


Clues of Bronze Age Processions in the Central Mediterranean – Marco Bettelli, Elisabetta Borgna and Sara Tiziana Levi