Philistor
Subtitle: studies in honor of Costis Davaras
By: edited by Eleni Mantzourani and Philip P. Betancourt
Contributors: Davaras, Kōstēs
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press; INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781931534659
Subjects: Minoan Architecture; Excavations (Archaeology); Bronze age; Antiquities; Minoans
Notes: "Biography of Costis Davaras by Eleni Mantzourani."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The frying pans from Hagia Photia / Philip P. Betancourt; title: The genesis of the early Minoan Tholos tomb / Keith Branigan; title: Harvesting an old rattle : the bronze sistrum from the "royal" villa at Hagia Triada / Thomas M. Brogan; title: Some thoughts on "neo-Minoan" mythology / Christos G. Doumas; title: The presence of pumice in LM IIIB levels at Sissi, Crete / Florence Gaignerot-Driessen and Jan Driessen; title: The Kavousi goddesses with up-raised hands : new information on technology / Geraldine C. Gesell; title: An early Minoan I long dagger and razor from Kalo Chorio, East Crete / Donald C. Haggis; title: Firebars and other ceramics of problematic function from Priniatikos Pyrgos / Barbara J. Hayden; title: A tomb from Gonies Pediados : the end of final neolithic IV merges with the dawn of the early Bronze Age / Athanasia Kanta; title: Stone kernoi from the Juktas peak sanctuary / Alexandra Karetsou with a contribution by R.D.G. Evely; title: A new idol of cycladic type from Hagia Triada / Vincenzo La Rosa; title: Sexuality or fertility symbol? : the bronze figurine from Makrygialos / Eleni Mantzourani; title: A story of lions : palatial ideology in Egypt, Knossos, and Mycenae / Nanno Marinatos; title: Earth and fire : Cretan potting traditions and replicating Minoan cooking fabrics / Jennifer Moody, Jerolyn E. Morrison, and Harriet Lewis Robinson.; title: A terracotta foot model from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete / Polymnia Muhly; title: East Cretan peak sanctuaries revisited / Krzysztof Nowicki; title: An early Minoan boat model from Kephala Petras, Siteia / Yiannis Papadatos; title: New evidence on the origin of the late Minoan III chest-shaped larnax / Lefteris Platon; title: God save our homes : the case of the horns of consecration from Galatas / Giorgos Rethemiotakis; title: The hypostyle crypt (Quartier Kappa) and the large court, Malia : an athletic center? / Martin Schmid; title: Mochlos boats / Jeffrey S. Sole; title: The Vrysinas Ephebe : the lower torso of a clay figurine in Contrapposto / Dimitris Sphakianakis; title: Kampos group pottery from the prepalatial cemetery of Petras, Siteia / Metaxia Tsipopoulou; title: Minoan bee smokers : an experimental approach / Loeta Tyree, Harriet Lewis Robinson, and Paraskevi Stamataki; title: Headless, armless but sexuated bodies : on some particular figurines from the peak sanctuary of Vrysinas, near Rethymnon, Crete / Iris Tzachili; title: Armenoi : the late Minoan III necropolis and the town / Yannis Tzedakis and Holley Martlew; title: The neopalatial farmhouse at Kephali Lazana, Chondros Viannou, re-examined / Giorgos Vavouranakis; title: The apogee of Minoan civilization : the final neopalatial period / Peter M. Warren; title: An overview of secondary state formation on Crete : the Mirabello region during the Bronze Age / L. Vance Watrous.