Excavations in Midea 2006

Acropolis, Upper; Demakopoulou, Katie; Divari-Valakou, Nicoletta; Nilsson, Monica; Schallin, Ann-Louise

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“…Since the specific Wu examples bear the names of five different individuals but share the same seal impression C, the first should denote the palace intermediaries and the latter the individual or entity that had provided the fattened animals or had taken responsibility for the fattening (Palaima 2000b, 267–8; 2004, 227) 24 . A parallel concerning the o‐pa of an unknown delivered commodity could be established by nodule MI Wv 6 found in an open space next to the southern building of the Midea Southwest Slope sector (Demakopoulou et al. 2002, 52–4, figs.…”

Section: Pylian Seal‐users In Action: a Focus On Archives Complex Andmentioning

confidence: 97%

Agency Matters: Seal-Users in Pylian Administration

Flouda¹

2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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This study aims to provide insights into the patterns discernible in the Pylian sealing practices with regard to the identity of the seal-owners involved. The focus is on reassessing the problem of the function of glyptic imagery and on testing the working hypothesis that differences in the subject matter of the seal devices used to produce the seal impressions may have reflected the hierarchical status of the Pylian seal-owners. On the basis of context, typology and iconography it is suggested that the heirloom signet rings impressed upon the direct object sealings and the combination nodules from the Archives Complex as well as upon a set of hanging nodules from the Northeastern Building designated offices within the Pylian administrative system. In the case of the open irregular string nodules from the Northeastern Building, the Wine Magazine and the Southwestern Building, it is argued that they mainly reflect a system of receipts. Last but not least, the example of a gold ring impression reproducing key palatial iconography is used to demonstrate that the seal devices should be interpreted as visual symbols that acquired their meaning through convention. One of the mechanisms through which the rings and the seals would have been differentiated and associated with individual offices or other institutions was possibly the way specific symbols were embedded within the composition of image.introduction: sealed documents as means for detecting agency in mycenaean administrationIn the Mycenaean polities of the Late Helladic III period ( Fig. 1) documents produced by impressing seals on lumps of clay have indicated standardized administrative acts such as the receipt of incoming goods in the palatial establishments, the securing of commodities and, possibly, the distribution of their contents. The premise underlying the perception of the Mycenaean sealed documents as an effective means of institutional control is that the seals impressed upon them had a representational value, and plausibly signified individuals or their offices as well as collective groups. The study of the clay seal impressions can, accordingly, give insights not only into the nature of the transactions of each polity with its periphery but also to OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 29(1) 57-88 2010 58 involved in the supervision of consignments to the palaces, which involved clay sealings and nodules as accounting and mnemonic devices.Nonetheless, the sealed documents recovered from the final destruction of the Ano Englianos palatial complex and from the early LM IIIA2 destruction deposit of the Knossian palace (object sealings, nodules, 2 noduli) imply the participation of a large number of persons in the sealing process (Fig. 2). If these clay documents are viewed as artefacts having semantic properties beyond the amuletic attributes of their seal devices, they can provide a new way to study agency. The morphology of the clay nodules, as well as the impressions of seals and/or gold signet rings that they bear, namely of objects with inherent social ...

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Section: Pylian Seal‐users In Action: a Focus On Archives Complex Andmentioning

confidence: 97%

Agency Matters: Seal-Users in Pylian Administration

Flouda¹

2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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“…The discovery of an Early Helladic settlement submerged offshore at Lambogianna in the Bay of Koilada (ID5045; Beck 2016; 2017) is an important addition to the corpus of fortified Early Helladic sites now known from the Argolid at Lerna (Wiencke 2000), Midea (Demakopoulou et al 2008), Vassa (Tartaron et al 2006) and Salandi Bay (ID117; ADelt 54 [1999] Chr. 1028-29) and on Poros at Variarnia (Konsolaki-Giannopoulou 2011: 273-74).…”

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Recent research in Early Helladic southern Greece

Smith¹

2017

Arch. Rep.

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The Early Helladic period on the Greek mainland is a time of complexity and innovation, characterized by a marked regionalism in settlement patterns and material culture, and the presence of myriad crossscale networks within which objects, technologies, ideas and individuals circulated. Nevertheless, much about the period remains unclear beyond the relative comfort of its long ‘middle’ phase, Early Helladic II (ca. 2950–2250 BC). Its emergence from the socio-cultural processes of the Final Neolithic, particularly, continues to be obscured by a ‘fourth-millennium gap’ which has proved frustratingly intransigent. Of those few Peloponnesian sites yielding radiocarbon dates which potentially fall within the fourth millennium, those of Franchthi (FCP 5.2, P-1659, ca. 4,230–3,790 cal. BC; see Vitelli 1999: table 9), Kouveleiki Caves A and B (ID1492; Kontaxi 2006) and Alepotrypa (Bronk-Ramsey et al. 2015: 200) fall well short of its mid-point. Halieis alone potentially bucks the trend (ca. 3,909–3,367 cal. BC; Pullen 2000: 184–86; see also Alram-Stern 2007), although the range on this sample is so great as to be problematic.

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“…Åström 1983;Persson 1942;Walberg 1998Walberg , 16-17. 17 Åström 1983Åström & Demakopoulou 1986;Åström et al 1988;Demakopoulou et al 1999;2002;2008a;2008b;2009;Walberg 1998;2007. 18 For the preliminary reports of the excavations at the East Gate see the specific contributions by H.A.…”

Section: The Textile-related Tools From the East Gate At Mideamentioning

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“…Numerous spindle whorls have been also found in different layers within the various rooms of Midea's so called Mega- 77 Demakopoulou et al 2015. 78 Demakopoulou et al 1999;Demakopoulou 1998;Demakopoulou et al 2015, 248. 79 Demakopoulou et al 2015, 250.…”

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Textile tools from the East Gate at Mycenaean Midea, Argolis, Greece

Sabatini

2016

OpAthRom

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This contribution presents in the first place an analysis and interpretation of all implements and tools possibly related to textile production that were recovered in the East Gate area at Midea during the Greek-Swedish excavation campaigns between 2000 and 2009. Secondly, with the help of comparative evidence from other zones on the citadel of Midea and also from other Mycenaean sites, it is argued that at least one multifunctional unit, where textile manufacture was also carried out, might have existed in the East Gate area. It is also suggested that this textile production comprised fine quality products to a significant extent. Finally, referring to signalling theory it is proposed that the fabrics possibly manufactured in the citadel served as means for the local community or élite to partake in the socio-cultural and political competition which seems to characterize Mycenaean society in general.

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Excavations in Midea 2006

Cited by 7 publications

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Agency Matters: Seal-Users in Pylian Administration

Agency Matters: Seal-Users in Pylian Administration

Recent research in Early Helladic southern Greece

Textile tools from the East Gate at Mycenaean Midea, Argolis, Greece

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