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Lesson 18 Bibliography:

The Nature and Extent of Neopalatial Minoan Influence in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Worlds

[Updated March 2008]


                            *          Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften

                            *          Minoan Foreign Relations during the Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and                                                     Post-Palatial Periods

                            *          Minoan Trade and Exchange: General

                            *          Minoan Metrology

                            *          The Minoan Thalassocracy

                            *          Minoan External Relations: The Greek Mainland

                            *          Minoan External Relations: The Cyclades, Kythera, and Minoan                                                         Colonialism

                            *          Minoan External Relations: The Dodecanese

                            *          Minoan External Relations: Anatolia

                            *          Minoan External Relations: The Northern Aegean

                            *          Minoan External Relations: Cyprus

                            *          Minoan External Relations: Egypt

                            *          Minoan External Relations: The Levant

                            *          Minoan External Relations: Italy and the Central Mediterranean

                            *          Neopalatial Texts and Sealing Systems

                            *          MONOPALATIAL CRETE: Knossos in the Late Minoan II and IIIAI                                                 Periods: the Era of the Warrior-Graves

                            *          Synthetic Treatments of the Monopalatial Era

                            *          Knossos and the Surrounding Town in the Late Minoan II - III Periods

                            *          The Warrior Graves of Knossos, Katsambas, Archanes, Phaistos, and                                                 Chania

                            *          Sites Other than Knossos during the LM II - IIIA1 Periods

                            *          The Palace Style and LM II-IIIA1 Ceramics

                            *          Survivals of Minoan Neopalatial Forms in the Monopalatial and Final                                                     Palatial Eras

                            *          Linear B and the Late Minoan III Economic, Religious, Political, and                                                     Social Order

                            *          The Mycenaean Presence on Crete during the Monopalatial Era

                            *          FINAL PALATIAL CRETE: Crete in the Late Minoan III Period after the                                            LM IIIA2 Early Destruction of Knossos until the End of the LM IIIB Period

                            *          Synthetic Treatments of the Period

                            *          Settlements

                            *          Tholoi, Chamber Tombs, and Burial Customs

                            *          Architecture

                            *          Pottery and Terracotta Larnakes

                            *          Figurines and Ivories

                            *          Linear B Texts from Contexts Later than LM IIIA2


Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften

A. Aslan, S. Blum, G. Kastl, F. Schweizer, and D. Thumm (eds.), Mauerschau: Festschrift für Manfred Korfmann II (Remshalden-Grünbach 2002).

P. Åström (ed.), High, Middle or Low? [Acts of an International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology, Gothenburg, 20-22 August 1987] I-III (Göteborg 1987, 1987, 1989).

M. S. Balmuth and R. H. Tykot (eds.), Sardinian and Aegean Chronology: Towards the Resolution of Relative and Absolute Dating in the Mediterranean (Oxford 1998).

J. Bennet and J. Driessen (eds.), ANAQOTA. Studies on Mycenaean Society and Economy Presented to J. T. Killen [Minos Supplement 20] (forthcoming).

P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999).

P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007).

I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005).

G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004).

Centre Gustave Glotz, Aux origines de l'hellénisme: Hommage à Henri van Effenterre (Paris 1984).

A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999).

E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998).

E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman, and A. Schwab (eds.), Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak (Leuven 2006).

A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005).

P. Darcque and J-C. Poursat (eds.), L'iconographie minoenne [BCH Supplement 11] (Paris 1985).

W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (eds.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant (London 1995).

J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997).

Eilapine. Tomos timetikos yia ton kathegete Nikolao Platona (Heraklion 1987).

D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994).

N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 105] (Jonsered 1991).

K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003).

N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 105] (Jonsered 1991).

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R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984).

D. A. Hardy, C. Doumas, J. A. Sakellarakis, and P. M. Warren (eds.), Thera and the Aegean World III (London 1990). <abbreviated below as TAW III>

A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000).

A. Karetsou, M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, and N. Papadakis (eds.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion: Katalogos (Heraklion 2000).

R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989).

R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999).

R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), Thalassa. L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège 1991).

R. Laffineur and J. L. Crowley (eds.), EIKON: Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology [Aegaeum 8] (Liège 1992).

R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005).

R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001).

R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995).

V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI: Simposio italiano di Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli [Rome 1999].

C. F. E. Pare (ed.), Metals Make the World Go Round. The Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe (Oxford 2000).

J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997).

L. Rocchetti (ed.), Sybrita. La valle di Amari fra Bronzo e Ferro [Incunabula Graeca 96] (Rome 1994).

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MINOAN FOREIGN RELATIONS DURING THE NEOPALATIAL, FINAL PALATIAL, AND POST-PALATIAL PERIODS

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Minoan Trade and Exchange: General

E. F. Bloedow, "Itinerant Craftsmen and Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 439- .

K. Branigan, "Minoan Foreign Relations in Transition," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 65-71.

C. Broodbank, “Minoanisation,” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 50(2004) 46-91.

J. F. Cherry, "Introductory Reflection on Economics and Scale in Prehistoric Crete," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 17-24.

E. H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Bronze Age Aegean [BAR International Series 591] (Oxford 1994).

E. H. Cline, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Minoans and Mycenaeans Abroad," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 265-287.

E. Cline, “A Wrinkle in Time: Orientalia and the Mycenaean Occupation(s) of Crete,” in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhodes Bell (San Antonio 1997) 163-167.

E. H. Cline, "The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 115-144.

E. H. Cline, “The Multivalent Nature of Imported Objects in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 45-51.

J. L. Crowley, The Aegean and the East (Jonsered 1989).

K. Kopaka, “Emporoi on the Mediterranean Fringe: Trading for a Living on the Small Islands of Crete,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 91-101.

G. Kopcke, "The Cretan Palaces and Trade," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 255-259.

R. Laffineur, “Imports/Exports in the Eastern Mediterranean: For a Specific Methodology,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 53-58.

E. M. Melas, "Minoans Overseas: Alternative Models of Interpretation," Aegaeum 2(1988) 47-70.

W-D. Niemeier, "Creta, Egeo e Mediterraneo agli inizi di bronzo tardo," in M. Marazzi, S Tusa, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), Traffici micenei nel Mediterraneo: problemi storici e documentazione archeologica (Taranto 1986) 245-270.

C. Renfrew, "Who Were the Minoans? Towards a Population History of Crete," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 1-27.

C. G. Reynolds, "The Maritime Character of Minoan Civilization," The American Neptune 56(1996) 315-351.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Minoan Foreign Relations and Copper Metallurgy in MM III – LM III Crete,” in A. Shortland (ed.), The Social Context of Technological Change (Oxford 2001) 195-210.

I. Strøm, "Aspects of Minoan Foreign Relations, LM I-LM II," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 191-195.

S. Voutsaki, "Value and Exchange in Pre-Monetary Societies: Anthropological Debates and Aegean Archaeology," Hydra 10(1992) 42-53.

P. Warren, "Minoan Stone Vases as Evidence for Minoan Foreign Connexions in the Aegean Late Bronze Age," PPS 33(1967) 37-56.

L. V. Watrous, "Late Bronze Age Kommos: Imported Pottery as Evidence for Foreign Contacts," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), A Great Minoan Triangle in South-central Crete: Kommos, Hagia Triadha, Phaistos [Scripta Mediterranea 6] (Toronto 1985) 7-18.

J. Weingarten, "Late Bronze Age Trade within Crete: The Evidence of Seals and Sealings," in N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 105] (Jonsered 1991) 303-324.

M. H. Wiener, "Trade and Rule in Palatial Crete," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 261-266.

M. Wiener, "The Nature and Control of Minoan Foreign Trade," in N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean (Jonsered 1991) 325-350.

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Minoan Metrology

A. Michailidou, "The Lead Weights from Akrotiri: The Archaeological Record," TAW III.1 (1990) 407-419.

A. Michailidou, "Systems of Weight and Relations of Production in Late Bronze Age Crete," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 87-114.

A. Michailidou, "O zygos ste zoe ton katoikon tou Aigaiou kai tes Aigyptou," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 128-149.

K. M. Petruso, "Marks on Some Minoan Balance Weights and their Interpretation," Kadmos 17(1978) 26-42.

K. M. Petruso, "Lead Weights from Akrotiri: Preliminary Observations," TAW I (1978) 547-553.

K. M. Petruso, "Reflections on Cycladic and Minoan Metrology and Trade," in J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979) 135-142.

K. M. Petruso, Keos VIII. Ayia Irini: The Balance Weights, An Analysis of Weight Measurement in Prehistoric Crete and the Cycladic Islands (Mainz 1992).

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The Minoan Thalassocracy

C. Baurain, "Minos et la Thalassocratie minoenne. Réflexions historiographiques sur la naissance d'un mythe," in R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), THALASSA. L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège 1991)255-266.

R. J. Buck, "The Minoan Thalassocracy Re-examined," Historia 11(1962) 129-137.

J. L. Davis, "Cultural Innovation and the Minoan Thalassocracy," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 159-166.

C. Doumas, "The Minoan Thalassocracy and the Cyclades," AA (1982) 5-14.

J. Driessen and C. F. MacDonald, The Troubled Island: Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption [Aegaeum 17] (Liège/ Austin 1997].

A. B. Knapp, "Thalassocracies in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Trade," World Archaeology 24:3(1993) 332-347.

A. B. Knapp, "Mediterranean Bronze Age Trade: Distance, Power, and Place," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 193-207.

C. Laviosa, "The Minoan Thalassocracy, Iasos and the Carian Coast," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 183-185.

W-D. Niemeier, "The End of the Minoan Thalassocracy," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 205-215.

W.-D. Niemeier, “When Minos Ruled the Waves: Knossian Power Overseas,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 393-398.

C. G. Starr, "The Myth of the Minoan Thalassocracy," Historia 3(1954-55) 282-291.

M. and H. Van Effenterre, "Menaces sur la Thalassocratie," in R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), THALASSA. L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège/Austin 1991) 267-270.

M. Wiener, "The Isles of Crete?: The Minoan Thalassocracy Revisited," TAW III.1(1990) 128-161.

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Minoan External Relations: The Greek Mainland

P. P. Betancourt, "Discontinuity in the Minoan-Mycenaean Religions: Smooth Development or Disruptions and War?," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 219-225.

E. Borgna, "Circolazaione della ceramica nello scambio ceerimoniale tra mondo miceneo palaziale e Creta tardominoica: la prospettiva di Festòs nel TM III," in V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI: Simposio italiano di Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Rome 1999) 199-205.

J. Bouzek, "Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete: The Problem of Migrations," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 85-90.

J. H. Crouwel and W.-D. Niemeier, "Eine knossische Palaststilscherbe mit Bukranion-Darstellung aus Mykene," AA (1989) 5- .

J. L. Crowley, "Minoan Influence on Mycenaean Art: Chronological Problems with the Prototypes," in P. Åström (ed.), High, Middle or Low? III (Göteborg 1989) 124-141.

A. L. D’Agata, “Central Southern Crete and its Relations with the Greek Mainland in the Postpalatial Period,” in A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005) 109-130 [with response by C. Shelmerdine (131-137) and discussion (139-143)].

E. N. Davis, The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware (New York 1976).

K. Demakopoulou, "Crete and the Argolid in the LM II/LH IIB to IIIA1 Periods. Evidence from Kokla," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 101-112.

K. Demakopoulou, “Knossos and the Argolid: New Evidence from Midea,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 405-410.

O. T. P. K. Dickinson, The Origins of Mycenaean Civilization (Göteborg 1977).

O. T. P. K. Dickinson, "Cretan Contacts with the Mainland during the Period of the Shaft Graves," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 115-118.

O. Dickinson, "Minoans in Mainland Greece, Mycenaeans in Crete?," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 63-71.

R. Hägg, "On the Nature of the Minoan Influence in Early Mycenaean Messenia," Opuscula Atheniensia 14(1982) 27-37.

R. Hägg, "Degrees and Character of the Minoan Influence on the Mainland," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 119-122.

B. Hallager, "Mycenaean Pottery in Crete," in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 263-269.

S. Hiller, "Knossos and Pylos. A Case of Special Relationship?," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 73-83.

J. Hurwit, "The Dendra Octopus Cup and the Problem of Style in the Fifteenth Century Aegean," AJA 83(1979) 413-426.

R. Janko, "A Stone Object Inscribed in Linear A from Ayios Stephanos, Laconia," Kadmos 21(1982) 97-100.

G. S. Korres, "The Relations between Crete and Messenia in the Late Middle Helladic and Early Late Helladic Period," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 141-152.

H. Matthäus, "Minoan Influence on the Greek Mainland during the Sixteenth Century B.C. and the Origins of Mycenaean Civilization," TUAS 5(1980) .

P. A. Mountjoy and M. J. Ponting, "The Minoan Thalassocracy Reconsidered: Provenance Studies of LH IIA/LM IB Pottery from Phylakopi, Ay. Irini and Athens," BSA 95(2000) 141-184.

W-D. Niemeier, "Zum Problem von Import und Imitation minoischer Keramik in frühmykenischer Zeit," in Aux origines de l'hellénisme: Hommage à Henri van Effenterre (Paris 1984) 111-119.

B. Pålsson Hallager, "Mycenaean Pottery in LM IIIA1 Deposits at Khania, Western Crete," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 173-183.

M. R. Popham, "Mycenaean-Minoan Relations between 1450 and 1400 B.C.," BICS 23(1976) 119-121.

J. B. Rutter, “Southern Triangles Revisited: Lakonia, Messenia, and Crete in the 14th – 12th Centuries B.C.,” in A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005) 17-50 [with response by O. T. P. K. Dickinson (51-58) and discussion (59-64)].

T. L. Shear, Jr., "Minoan Influence on the Mainland: Variations of Opinion since 1900," in A Land Called Crete. A Symposium in Memory of Harriet Boyd Hawes (Northampton 1967) 47-65.

H. Whittaker, “Religion and Power. The Nature of Minoan Influence on Early Mycenaean Religion,” Opuscula Atheniensia 27(2002) 151-157.

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Minoan External Relations: The Cyclades, Kythera, and Minoan Colonialism

A Bevan, “The Rural Landscape of Neopalatial Kythera: a GIS Perspective,” JMA 15(2002) 217-256.

A. Bevan, E. Kiriatzi, C. Knappett, E. Kappa, and S. Papachristou, “Excavation of Neopalatial Deposits at Tholos (Kastri), Kythera,” BSA 97(2002) 55-96.

K. Branigan, "Minoan Colonialism," BSA 76(1981) 23-33.

C. Broodbank, "Kythera Survey: Preliminary Report on the 1998 Season," BSA 94(1999) 191-214.

C. Broodbank and E. Kiriatzi, “The First ‘Minoans’ of Kythera Re-visited: Technology, Demography and Landscape in the Prepalatial Aegean,” AJA 111(2007) .

J. N. Coldstream and G. L. Huxley (eds.), Kythera: Excavations and Studies (London 1972).

W. W. Cummer and E. Schofield, Keos III: Ayia Irini: House A (Mainz 1984).

J. L. Davis, "Minos and Dexithea: Crete and the Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age," in J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979) 143-157.

J. L. Davis, "Minoans and Minoanization at Ayia Irini, Keos," TAW II (1980) 257-260.

C. Doumas, "The Minoan Thalassocracy and the Cyclades," AA (1982) 5-14.

L. A. Hitchcock, "Blending the Local with the Foreign: Minoan Features at Ayia Irini, House A," in L. G. Mendoni and A. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Paris 1998) 169-174.

G. L. Huxley, "Kythera and the Minoan Maritime Economy," in E. Acquaro et al. (eds.), Monumenti precoloniali nel Mediterraneo antico (Rome 1988) 65-71.

E. Kiriatzi, “Sherds, Fabrics and Clay Sources: Reconstructing the Ceramic Landscapes of Prehistoric Kythera,” in R. Laffineur and K. Foster (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 123-130.

C. Knappett and I. Nikolakopoulou, “Exchange and Affiliation Networks in the MBA Southern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Miletus,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 175-184.

S. Manning, "The Emergence of Divergence: Development and Decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades," in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1994) 221-270.

C. Morris and R. Jones, "The Late Bronze Age III Town of Ayia Irini and its Aegean Relations," in L. G. Mendoni and A. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Paris 1998) 189-199.

P. A. Mountjoy, “Knossos and the Cyclades in Late Minoan IB,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 399-404.

P. A. Mountjoy and M. J. Ponting, "The Minoan Thalassocracy Reconsidered: Provenance Studies of LH IIA/LM IB Pottery from Phylakopi, Ay. Irini and Athens," BSA 95(2000) 141-184.

T. G. Palaima, "Linear A in the Cyclades: The Trade and Travel of a Script," TUAS 7(1982) 15-22.

C. Renfrew and W. Brice, "A Linear A Tablet Fragment from Phylakopi in Melos," Kadmos 16(1977) 111-119.

Y. Sakellarakis, "Minoan Religious Influence in the Aegean. The Case of Kythera," BSA 91(1996) 81-99.

Y. Sakellarakis and J-P. Olivier, "Un vase en pierre avec inscription en linéaire A du sanctuaire de sommet minoen de Cythère," BCH 118(1994) 343-351.

E. Schofield, "The Western Cyclades and Crete: a 'Special Relationship'," OJA 1(1982) 9-25.

E. Schofield, "Plus and Minus Thera: Trade in the Western Aegean in Late Cycladic I-II," TUAS 7(1982) 9-14.

E. Schofield, "The Minoan Emigrant," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Cambridge 1983) 293-301.

E. Schofield, "Migration Theory and the Minoans," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 41-50.

S. L. Stucynski, "Cycladic Imports in Crete: A Brief Survey," TUAS 7(1982) 50-59.

M. H. Wiener, "Crete and the Cyclades in LM I: The Tale of the Conical Cups," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 17-26.

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Minoan External Relations: The Dodecanese

M. Benzi, "Evidence for a Middle Minoan Settlement on the Acropolis at Ialysos (Mt. Philerimos)," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 93-105.

J. L. Davis, "The Earliest Minoans in the South-East Aegean: a Reconsideration of the Evidence," AS 32(1982) 33-41.

A. Furumark, "The Settlement at Ialysos and Aegean History c. 1550-1400 B.C.," Opuscula Archaeologica 6(1950) 150-271.

D. Levi, “Iasos. Le campagne di scavo 1969-70,” Annuario 47-48(1969-70) 461-532.

M. Melas, “Minoan and Mycenaean Settlement in Kasos and Karpathos,” BICS 30(1983) 53-61.

M. Melas, "The Dodecanese and W. Anatolia in Prehistory: Interrelationships, Ethnicity, and Political Geography," AS 38(1988) .

L. Morricone, “Coo – Scavi e scoperte nel Serraglio e in località minori (1935-1943), Annuario 34-35(1972-73) 139-396.

A. Papagiannopoulou, "Were the S. E. Aegean Islands Deserted in the MBA?," AS 35(1985) 85-92.

L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, "Anaskaphe tou minoïkou oikismou sta Trianda tes Rodou," AD 37A(1982) 139- .

A. Sampson, "Minoïka apo ten Telon," AAA 13(1980) 68-72.

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Minoan External Relations: Anatolia

J. Aruz, "Crete and Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age: Sealings from Phaistos and Karahöyük," in M. Mellink, E. Porada, and T. Özgüç eds.), Aspects of Art and Iconography: Anatolia and its Neighbors. Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç (1993) 35-54.

M. Benzi, “Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean at the Time of the Trojan War,” in F. Montanari (ed.), Omero Tremila Anni Dopo [Storia e Letteratura. Raccolta di Studi e Testi 210] (Rome 2002) 343-405.

E. L. Brown, "Linear A on Trojan Spindlewhorls, Luvian-based WANAX at Cnossus," in G. Schmeling and J. D. Mikalson (eds.), Qui miscuit utile dulci: Festschrift Essays for Paul Lachlan MacKendrick (Wauconda 1997) 51-68.

E. H. Cline, "The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 115-144.

E. Jewell, The Archaeology and History of Western Antolia during the Second Millennium B.C. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1974).

I. Kaiser, “Minoan Miletus. A View from the Kitchen,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 193-197.

C. Knappett and I. Nikolakopoulou, “Exchange and Affiliation Networks in the MBA Southern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Miletus,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 175-184.

C. Laviosa, "The Minoan Thalassocracy, Iasos and the Carian Coast," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 183-185.

C. Mee, "Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 137-146.

N. Momigliano, “Iasos and the Aegean Islands before the Santorini Eruption,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005).
217-225.

B. and W.-D. Niemeier, “Projekt ‘Minoisch-mykenisches bis protogeometrisches Milet’: Zielsetzung und Grabungen auf dem Stadionhügel und am Athenatempel,” AA (1997) 189-248.

B. and W.-D. Niemeier, “The Minoans of Miletus,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 543-554.

W.-D. Niemeier, “A Linear A Inscription from Miletus (MIL Zb1),” Kadmos 35(1996) 87-99.

W.-D. Niemeier, “The Minoans in the South-eastern Aegean and in Cyprus,” in V. Karageorghis and N. Stampolidis (eds.), Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus – Dodecanese – Crete 16th – 6th Century B.C. (Athens 1998) 29-47.

W.-D. Niemeier, “The Minoans and Mycenaeans in Western Asia Minor: Settlement, Emporia, or Acculturation,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 199-204.

H. Parzinger, "Zur frühesten Besiedlung Milets," IstMitt 39(1989) 415-431.

P. Pavúk, “Aegeans and Anatolians. A Trojan Perspective,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 269-277.

O. Pelon, "Crète et Anatolie: données maliotes," in R. Lebrun (ed.), Acta Anatolica E. Laroche Oblata [Hethitica VII] (1987) 381-392.

A. Raymond, “Importing Culture at Miletus: Minoans and Anatolians at Middle Bronze Age Miletus,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 185-191.

A. Raymond, “Minoanization at Miletus: The Middle Bronze Age Ceramics,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 221-229.

J. B. Rutter, “Southwestern Anatolian Pottery from Late Minoan Crete: Evidence for Direct Contacts between Arzawa and Keftiu?,” in M. H. Wiener, J. L. Warner, J. Polonsky, and E. E. Hayes (eds.), Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery [Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt] (Boston 2006) 138-153.

W. Schiering, "Die minoisch-mykenische Siedlung in Milet vor dem Bau der grossen Mauer," IstMitt 25(1975) 9-15.

W. Schiering, "The Connections between the Oldest Settlement at Miletus and Crete," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 187-188.

W. Schiering, "Zu den Beziehungen zwischen der ältesten Siedlung von Milet und Kreta," in W. Müller-Wiener (ed.), Milet 1899-1980. Ergebnisse, Probleme und Perspektiven einer Ausgrabung (Frankfurt 1986) 11-15.

P. Taracha, “Bull-leaping on a Hittite Vase. New Light on Anatolian and Minoan Religion,” Archaeologica Warsawa 53(2002) 7-20.

J. Vanschoonwinkel, “La Crète minoenne et l’Anatolie,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 229-269.

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Minoan External Relations: The Northern Aegean

H-G. Buchholz, "Doppeläxte und die Frage der Balkanbeziehungen des ägäischen Kulturkreises," in A. G. Poulter (ed.), Ancient Bulgaria (1983) 43-134.

M. Guzowska,, “Traces of Minoan Behavioural Patterns in the North-East Aegean,” in A. Aslan, S. Blum, G. Kastl, F. Schweizer, and D. Thumm (eds.), Mauerschau: Festschrift für Manfred Korfmann II (Remshalden-Grünbach 2002) 585-594.

D. Matsas, "Samothrace and the Northeastern Aegean: The Minoan Connection," Studia Troica 1(1991) 159-179.

D. Matsas, "Minoan Long-Distance Trade: A View from the Northern Aegean," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) I: 235-247.

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Minoan External Relations: Cyprus

E. Banou, "Scheseis Kretes kai NA Mesogeiou kata ton 14o p. Ch. ai. Endeixeis yia emborikes antallages apo te melete tes kerameikes," Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A2 (Rethymno 1995) 649-664.

H.-G. Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Münster 1999).

G. Cadogan, "Cyprus and Crete c. 2000-1400 B.C.," in Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium "The Relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 B.C. (Nicosia 1979) 63-68.

G. Cadogan, “The Aegean and Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age: It Takes Two to Tango,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 313-321.

H. W. Catling, "Minoan Metalwork at Palaikastro: Some Questions," BSA 92(1997) 51-58.

H. W. Catling and V. Karageorghis, "Minoika in Cyprus," BSA 55(1960) 109-127.

H. W. Catling and J. A. MacGillivray, "An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos," BSA 78(1983) 1-8.

E. H. Cline, "The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 115-144.

A. L. D’Agata, “Cult Activity on Crete and Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age and the Beginning of the Early Iron Age. What Comparative Analysis Can Tell Us,” in V. Karageorghis, H. Matthäus, and S. Rogge (eds.), Cyprus: Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period (Bibliopolis 2005) 1-17.

J. F. Daniel, “Prolegomena to the Cypro-Minoan Script,” AJA 45(1941) 249-282.

L. Godart and A. Sacconi, “La plus ancienne tablette d’Enkomi et le Linéaire A,” in V. Karageorghis (ed.), Actos of the International Archaeological Symposium, ‘The Relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 B.C.’ (Nicosia 1979) 128-133.

G. Graziadio, "La dinamica dei rapporti cipro-egei nei secoli XX-XIII a.C.: vecchi problemi e nuove ricerche," Miscellanea in Memoria di Giuliano Cremonesi (Pisa 1995) 253-275.

G. Graziadio, “L’adozione della wishbone handle nell’Egeo: un aspetto trascurato dei rapporti cipro-egei,” in V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI: Simposio italiano di Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Rome 1999) 365-377.

G. Graziadio, “The Relations between the Aegean and Cyprus at the Beginning of Late Bronze Age: An Overview of the Archaeological Evidence,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 323-334.

G. Graziadio, “Lusso e potere: le prime influenze artistiche egee sull’artigianato cipriota dell’età del Bronzo,” in B. Adembri (ed.), AEIMNESTOS: Miscellanea di Studi per Mauro Cristofani (Florence 2005) 2-14.

S. Hemingway, "Minoan Metalworking in the Postpalatial Period: a Deposit of Metallurgical Debris from Palaikastro," BSA 91(1996) 213-252.

C. Lambrou-Phillipson, "Cypriot and Levantine Pottery from House AD Center at Pseira," JOAS 2(1990) 1-10.

S. W. Manning and F. A. De Mita, Jr., "Cyprus, the Aegean, and Maroni Tsarroukas," in Cyprus and the Aegean in Antiquity: From the Prehistoric Period to the 7th Century A.D. (Nicosia 1997) 103-141.

E. K. Mantzourani and A. J. Theodorou, "An Attempt to Delineate the Sea Routes between Crete and Cyprus during the Bronze Age," in V. Karageorghis (ed.), The Civilizations of the Aegean and their Diffusion in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean 2000-600 B.C. (Nicosia 1991) 38-56.

E. Masson, Cyprominoica: repertoires, documents de Ras Shamra, essays d’interprétation [SIMA 31:2] (Göteborg 1974).

E. Masson, “Une inscription peinte d’Enkomi en caractères chypro-minoens,” RDAC (1979) 210-213.

E. Masson,”Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions and Potters’ Marks,” in T. Dothan and A. Ben-Tor, Excavations at Ahtienou, Cyprus 1971-1972 [Qedem 16] (Jerusalem 1983) 121-123.

E. Masson, “Inscriptions et marques chypro-minoennes à Kition,” in V. Karageorghis, Excavations at Kition V, Part II: The Pre-Phoenician Levels (Nicosia 1985) 280-284.

E. Masson, “Marques chypro-minoennes à Maa-Paleokastro,” in V. Karageorghis and M. Demas, Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979-1986 (Nicosia 1988) 399-403.

W.-D. Niemeier, “The Minoans in the South-eastern Aegean and in Cyprus,” in V. Karageorghis and N. Stampolidis (eds.), Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus – Dodecanese – Crete 16th – 6th Century B.C. (Athens 1998) 29-47.

T. Palaima, “Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context,” in Y. Duhoux, T. G. Palaima, and J. Bennet (eds.), Problems in Decipherment (Louvain-la-Neuve 1989) 121-187.

T. G. Palaima, “Ideograms and Supplementals and Regional Interaction among Aegean and Cypriote Scripts,” Minos 24(1989) 29-54.

A. Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou, “Crète minoenne et Chypre: La transmission et la diffusion d’une écriture linéaire,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 203-215.

I. Pini, “Kypro-Ägäische Rollsiegel. Ein Beitrag zur Deinition und zum Ursprung der Gruppe,” JdI 95(1980) 77-108.

M. R. Popham, "Connections between Crete and Cyprus between 1300-1100 B.C.," in Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium "The Relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000 - 500 B.C. (Nicosia 1979) 178-191.

J. S. Smith, “Writing Styles in Clay of the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age,” in N. C. Stampolidis and V. Karageorghis (eds.), PLOES . . . Sea Routes . . .: Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th – 6th c. BC (Athens 2003) 277-289.

J. S. Smith, “International Style in Mediterranean Late Bronze Age Seals,” in N. C. Stampolidis and V. Karageorghis (eds.), PLOES . . . Sea Routes . . .: Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th – 6th c. BC (Athens 2003) 291—302.

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Minoan External Relations: Egypt

J. Aruz, "Imagery and Interconnections,” Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 33-48.

K. Aslanidou, “The Minoan Wall Paintings from Tell El-Dab’a/’Ezbet Helmi: The Life-size Male Figures,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 463-469.

E. J. W. Barber, "Aegean Ornaments and Designs in Egypt," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 13-16.

M. Bernal, Black Athena. The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization I-II (New Brunswick 1987, 1991).

P. P. Betancourt, "Middle Minoan Objects in the Near East," E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 5-11.

P. P. Betancourt, "Relations between the Aegean and the Hyksos at the End of the Middle Bronze Age," in E. D. Oren (ed.), The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives (Philadelphia 1997) 429-432.

P. P. Betancourt, “Egyptian Connections at Hagios Charalambos,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 449-453.

A. Bevan, “Emerging Civilized Values? The Consumption and Imitation of Egyptian Stone Vessels in EM II – MM I Crete and its Wider Eastern Mediterranean Context,” in J. C. Barrett and P. Halstead (eds.), The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 6] (Sheffield 2004) 107-126.

M. Bietak, "Minoan Wall-paintings Unearthed at Ancient Avaris," Egyptian Archaeology: Bulletin of the Egyptian Exploration Society 2(1992) 26-28.

M. Bietak, "Connections between Egypt and the Minoan World: New Results from Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris," in W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (eds.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant (London 1995) 19-28.

M. Bietak, "'Rich beyond the Dreams of Avaris: Tell el-Dab'a and the Aegean World - A Guide for the Perplexed'. A Response to Eric H. Cline," BSA 95(2000) 185-205.

M. Bietak and N. Marinatos, "The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris," Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 49-62.

M. Bietak and N. Marinatos," Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) and the Minoan World," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 40-44.

M. Bietak, J. Dorner, I. Hein, and P. Janosi, "Neue Grabungsergebnisse aus Tell el-Dab'a und 'Ezbet Helmi im östlichen Nildelta 1989-1991," Ägypten und Levante 4(1994) 9-80.

J. Bourriau and K. Eriksson, "A Late Minoan Sherd from an Early 18th Dynasty Context at Kom Rabi'a, Memphis," in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 95-120.

K. Branigan, "Crete, the Levant and Egypt in the Early Second Millennium B.C.," in Pepragmena tou Gamma' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A' (Athens 1973) 23-27.

H. H. Brock, "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Some Evidence from Small Objects," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 120-127.

F. M. Carinci, "Western Messara and Egypt during the Protopalatial Period: A Minimalist View," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 31-37

E. Cline, "A Wrinkle in Time: Orientalia and the Mycenaean Occupation(s) of Crete," in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 163-167.

E. Cline, "Rich beyond the Dreams of Avaris: Tell el-Dab'a and the Aegean World - A Guide for the Perplexed," BSA 93(1998) 199-219.

E. H. Cline, "The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 115-144.

N. Cucuzza, "'Egyptianizing' Amphorae in Minoan Crete," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 101-106.

E. N. Davis, "The Egyptian Influence on Minoan Figure Painting," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 64-70.

Y. Duhoux, Des Minoens en Égypte? ‘Keftiou’ et ‘les îles au milieu du Grand Vert’ (louvain/Paris 2003).

E. Edel, "Die hieroglyphische Inschrift auf der Dioritstatuette des User aus Knossos," in S. Israelit-Groll (ed.), Studies in Egyptology Presented to Miriam Lichtheim I (Jerusalem 1990) 122-133.

L. Fitton, S. Quirke, and M. Hughes, Northerners at Lahun: Neutron Activation Analysis of Minoan and Related Pottery in the British Museum [Lahun Studies 1] (London 1999).

D. Gill and J. Padgham, “'One Find of Capital Importance': A Reassessment of the Statue of User from Knossos,” BSA 100(2005) 41-59.

P. W. Haider, "Ägäer in ägyptischen Diensten zwischen ca. 1550 und 1200 vor Chr.," Laverna 1(1990) 18-49.

P. W. Haider, “Minoan Deities in an Egyptian Medical Text,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 479-482.

W. Helck, Die Beziehungen Ägyptens und Vorderasiens zur Ägäis bis ins 7.Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Darmstadt 1979).

W. Helck and R. Drenkhahn, Die Beziehungen Ägyptens und Vorderasiens zur Ägäis bis ins 7.Jahrhundert v. Chr. [2nd ed.] (Darmstadt 1995).

M. Heltzer, "Cretans in Egypt," Kadmos 27(1988) 167-169.

S. Hiller, "Zur Rezeption ägyptischer Motive in der minoischen Freskenkunst," Ägypten und Levante 6(1996) 83-105.

S. Hiller, "Egyptian Elements on the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus," in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 361-369.

S. Hood, "Crete, Syria and Egypt," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 21-23.

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P. Janosi, "Die stratigraphische Position und Verteilung der minoischen Wandfragmente in den Grabungsplätzen H/I und H/IV von Tell el-Dab'a," Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 63-72.

H. J. Kantor, "The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium B.C.," AJA 51(1947) 1-103.

B. J. Kemp, "The Discovery of the Painted Plaster Fragments at Malkata," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 45-46.

B. J. Kemp and R. S. Merrillees, Minoan Pottery in Second Millennium Egypt (Mainz 1980).

R. B. Koehl, "Minoan Rhyta Found in Egypt," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 94-100.

R. Laffineur, "From West to East: The Aegean and Egypt in the Early Late Bronze Age," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 53-67.

V. La Rosa, "To Whom Did the Queen Tiyi Scarab Found at Hagia Triada Belong?," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 86-93.

J. Leclant, "L'Égypte et l'Égée au second millénaire," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) II: 613-625.

J. A. MacGillivray, "A Minoan Cup at Tell el-Dab'a," Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 81-84.

N. Marinatos, "On the Rhetoric of Egyptian and Minoan Art," in P. J. Holliday (ed.), Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (1993) 74-87.

N. Marinatos, "The Tell el-Dab'a Paintings: A Study in Pictorial Tradition," Ägypten und Levante 8(1998) 83-99.

H. Matthäus, "Representations of Keftiu in Egyptian Tombs and the Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze Age," BICS 40(1995) 177-194.

R. S. Merrillees, "Aegean Bronze Age Relations with Egypt," AJA 76(1972) 281-294.

R. S. Merrillees, "Egypt and the Aegean," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 149-155.

R. S. Merrillees and J. Evans, "An Essay in Provenance: the Late Minoan IB Pottery from Egypt," Berytus 28(1980) 1-45.

R. S. Merrillees and J. Winter, "Bronze Age Trade between the Aegean and Egypt. Minoan and Mycenaean Pottery from Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum," Miscellanea Wilbouriana 1(1972) 101-133.

A. Michailidou, "O zygos ste zoe ton katoikon tou Aigaiou kai tes Aigyptou," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 128-149.

M. Mikrakis, "Mousike sten Krete kai ten Aigypto: ena idiaitero pedio anaptyxes politismikon desmon," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 162-169.

P. Militello, "Nilotic Models and Local Reelaboration: The Hagia Triada Example," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 78-85.

L. Morgan, "Minoan Painting and Egypt: The Case of Tell el-Dab'a," in W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (eds.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant (London 1995) 29-53.

L. Morgan, “Paintings, Harbors, and Intercultural Relations,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 117-129.

M. Nicolakaki-Kentrou, "Amenhotep III and the Aegean: New Evidence on Intimacy. The Painted Plaster Fragments from Site K at Malkata," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 47-51.

W.-D. and B. Niemeier, "Minoan Frescoes in the Eastern Mediterranean," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 69-97.

C. Obsomer, “Hérodote II 148 à l’origine du mot Labyrinthos? La Minotauromachie revisitée,” Cretan Studies 9(2003) 105-186.

M. Panagiotaki, "Crete and Egypt: Contacts and Relationships Seen through Vitrous Materials," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 154-161.

D. Panagiotopoulos, “Keftiu in Context: Theban Tomb-Paintings as a Historical Source,” OJA 20(2001) 263-283.

J. D. S. Pendlebury, Aegyptiaca. A Catalogue of Egyptian Objects in the Aegean Area (Cambridge 1930).

J. Phillips, “Egypt in the Aegean During the Middle Kingdom.” In S. Schoske (ed.), Akten des Vierten Internationalen Ägyptologen Kongresses München, Vol. 4 (Hamburg 1985) 319-333.

J. Phillips, The Impact and the Implications of the Egyptian and Egyptianizing Objects Found in Bronze Age Crete ca. 3000 - 1100 B.C. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto 1991).

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J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997).

J. Phillips, “The Last Pharoahs on Crete: Old Contexts and New Readings,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 455-461.

J.-C. Poursat, "Malia et l'Égypte," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 29-30.

S. Quirke and L. Fitton, "An Aegean Origin for Egyptian Spirals?," in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 421-444.

P. Rehak, "Aegean Breechcloths, Kilts, and the Keftiu Paintings," AJA 100(1996) 35-51.

P. Rehak, "Aegean Natives in the Theban Tomb Paintings: The Keftiu Revisited," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 39-50.

J. B. Rutter, “An Orientalizing Type of Minoan Rhyton from House X at Kommos,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 185-190.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, "The Keftiu and the Minoan Thalassocracy," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 197-203.

M. C. Shaw, "Ceiling Patterns from the Tomb of Hepzefa," AJA 74(1970) 25-30.

M. C. Shaw, "Bull-leaping Frescoes at Knossos and their Influence on the Tell el-Dab'a Murals," Ägypten und Levante 5(1995) 91-120.

M. C. Shaw, "Anatomy and Execution of Complex Minoan Textile Patterns in the Procession Fresco from Knossos," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 52-63.

W. S. Smith, Interconnections in the Ancient Near East (New Haven 1965).

J. Strange, Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation (Leiden 1980).

I. Tzachili, "Aigyptiakes kai minoïkes endymasies: politismikes diaphores kai sympleromatikoteta," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 71-77.

C. Vandersleyen, “Keftiu: A Cautionary Note,” OJA 22(2003) 209-212.

J. Versoutter, L'Égypte et le monde égéen préhellénique (Cairo 1956).

J. Vercoutter, "Égyptiens et Préhellènes, nouveaux pointes de vue," in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 463-470.

S. Wachsmann, Aegeans in the Theban Tombs (Louvain 1987).

G. A. Wainwright, "The Keftiu-People of the Egyptian Monuments," Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 6(1914) 24-83.

P. M. Warren, "Egyptian Stone Vessels from the City of Knossos: Contributions towards Minoan Economic and Social Structure," Ariadne [Aphieroma ston Styliano Alexiou] 5 (1989) 1-9.

P. M. Warren, "A Merchant Class in Bronze Age Crete? The Evidence of Egyptian Stone Vases from the City of Knossos," in N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean [SIMA 90] (Jonsered 1991) 295-301.

P. M. Warren, "Minoan Crete and Pharaonic Egypt," in W. V. Davies and L. Schofield (eds.), Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant (London 1995) 1-18.

P. Warren, "Crete and Egypt: The Transmission of Relationships," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 24-28.

P. Warren, “A Model of Iconographical Transfer. The Case of Crete and Egypt,” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 221-227.

P. M. Warren, “The Date of the Thera Eruption in Relation to Aegean-Egyptian Interconnections and the Egyptian Historical Chronology,” in E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman, and A. Schwab (eds.), Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak (Leuven 2006) II: 305-321.

L. V. Watrous, "Late Bronze Age Kommos: Imported Pottery as Evidence for Foreign Contact," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), A Great Minoan Triangle in South-Central Crete: Kommos, Hagia Triadha, Phaistos [Scripta Mediterranea VI] (Toronto 1985) 7-18.

L. V. Watrous, "Egypt and Crete in the Early Middle Bronze Age: A Case of Trade and Cultural Diffusion," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 19-27.

M. Wedde, "The Intellectual Stowaway: On the Movement of Ideas within Exchange Systems: A Minoan Case Study," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège 1997) 67-76.

J. Weingarten, The Transformation of Egyptian Taweret into the Minoan Genius: A Study in Cultural Transmission in the Middle Bronze Age (Partille 1991).

J. Weingarten, "Proportions and the Palaikastro Kouros: A Minoan Adaptation of the First Egyptian Proportional Canon," in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 471-481.

J. Weingarten, "The Transformation of Egyptian Taweret into the Minoan Genius," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 114-119.

J. Weingarten, “How Many Seals Make a Heap: Seals and Interconnections on Prepalatial Crete,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 759-766.

H-P. Wotzka, "The Abuse of User. A Note on the Egyptian Statuette from Knossos," BSA 85(1990) 449-453.

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Minoan External Relations: The Levant

J. Aruz, "Syrian Seals and the Evidence for Cultural Interaction between the Levant and Crete," in W. Müller (ed.), Sceaux Minoens et Mycéniens [CMS Beiheft 5] (Berlin 1995) 1-21.

E. Banou, "Scheseis Kretes kai NA Mesogeiou kata ton 14o p. Ch. ai. Endeixeis yia emborikes antallages apo te melete tes kerameikes," Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A2 (Rethymno 1995) 649-664.

M. Bernal, Black Athena. The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization I-II (New Brunswick 1987, 1991).

P. P. Betancourt, "Middle Minoan Objects in the Near East," E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 5-11.

P. P. Betancourt, “The Legged Flask from Pseira,” in V. Karageorghis and N. Stampolidis (eds.), Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus – Dodecanese – Crete 16th – 6th Century B.C. (Athens 1998) 49-53.

K. Branigan, "Byblite Daggers in Cyprus and Crete," AJA 70(1966) 123-126.

K. Branigan, "Further Light on Prehistoric Relations between Crete and Byblos," AJA 71(1967) 117-121.

K. Branigan, "Crete, the Levant and Egypt in the Early Second Millennium B.C.," in Pepragmena tou Gamma' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A' (Athens 1973) 23-27.

H.-G. Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Münster 1999).

A. Caubet, "The International Style" A Point of View from the Levant and Syria," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 105-111.

E. H. Cline, "The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 115-144.

D. Collon, "Bull-leaping in Syria," Egypt and the Levant 4(1994) 81-85.

C. Davaras and J. Soles, "A New Oriental Cylinder Seal from Mochlos. Appendix: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals Found in the Aegean," AE 134(1995) 29-66.

E. Fiandra, "Similarities and Differences in the Architectural Structures of the Palaces in Crete and Ugarit," SMEA 39(1997) 49-73.

V. Hankey and A. Leonard, Jr., "Aegean LB I and II Pottery in the East: 'Who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?'," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 29-36.

M. Heltzer, "Sinaranu, Son of Siginu, and the Trade Relations between Ugarit and Crete," Minos 23(1988) 7-13.

M. Heltzer, "The Trade of Crete and Cyprus with Syria and Mesopotamia and their Eastern Tin-Sources in the XVIII-XVII Century B.C.," Minos 24(1989) 7-27.

L. A. Hitchcock, “’Who Will Personally Invite a Foreigner, Unless He Is a Craftsman?’: Exploring Interconnections in Aegean and Levantine Architecture,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 691-699.

S. Hood, "Crete, Syria and Egypt," in A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos: Politismikoi desmoi trion chilietion (Athens 2000) 21-23.

B. Jones, “The Clothes-Line: Imports and Exports of Aegean Cloth(es) and Iconography,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 707-715.

H. J. Kantor, "The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium B.C.," AJA 51(1947) 1-103.

M. Kochavi, "Some Connections between the Aegean and the Levant in the Second Millennium B.C.: A View from the East," in G. Kopcke and I. Tokumaru (eds.), Greece between East and West: 10th to 8th Centuries B.C. (Mainz 1992) 7-15.

C. Lambrou-Phillipson, "Cypriot and Levantine Pottery from House AD Center at Pseira," JOAS 2(1990) 1-10.

M. R. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers (eds.), Black Athena Revisited (Chapel Hill 1996).

E. Møller, "A Reevaluation of the Oriental Seals Found in Crete," in J. G. P. Best and N. M. W. de Vries (eds.), Interaction and Acculturation in the Mediterranean I (Amsterdam 1980) 85-104.

W.-D. Niemeier, "Minoan Artisans Travelling Overseas: The Alalakh Frescoes and the Painted Plaster Floor at Tel Kabri (Western Galilee)," in R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), THALASSA. L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège/Austin 1991) 189-201.

W.-D. and B. Niemeier, "Minoan Frescoes in the Eastern Mediterranean," in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.), The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium [Aegaeum 18] (Liège/Austin 1998) 69-97.

C. Palyvou, “The Cosmopolitan Harbor Town of Ugarit and the ‘Aegean’ Aspects of its Architecture,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 31-447.

J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonion 1997).

I. Pini, “Mitanni-Rollsiegel des ‘Common Style’ aus Griechenland,” PZ 58(1983) 114-126.

J. W. Shaw, "Two Three-holed Stone Anchors from Kommos, Crete: Their Context, Type and Origin," IJNA 24(1995) 279-291.

W. S. Smith, Interconnections in the Ancient Near East (New Haven 1965).

J. S. Soles, “From Ugarit to Mochlos – Remnants of an Ancient Voyage,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 429-439.

J. Strange, Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation (Leiden 1980).

L. V. Watrous, "Late Bronze Age Kommos: Imported Pottery as Evidence for Foreign Contact," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), A Great Minoan Triangle in South-Central Crete: Kommos, Hagia Triadha, Phaistos [Scripta Mediterranea VI] (Toronto 1985) 7-18.

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Minoan External Relations: Italy and the Central Mediterranean

L. Alberti, “La tazza di Punta le Terrare non è stipple (e forse non è neppure una tazza),” SMEA 46(2004) 121-125.

F. Blakolmer, “Relations between Prehistoric Malta and the Aegean: Myth and Reality,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] 653-662.

H-G. Buchholz, "The Problem of Minoan Relations with the West at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age," TUAS 5(1980) 45-60.

F. Campus and V. Leonelli, La tipologia della ceramica nuragica: Il materiale edito (Viterbo 2000).

M. L. F. Ceruti, L. Vagnetti, and F. Lo Schiavo, "Minoici, Micenei e Ciprioti in Sardegna nella seconda meta del II millennio a. C.," in M. Balmuth (ed.), Studies in Sardinian Archaeology III (Oxford 1987) 7-38.

R. Guglielmino, “Rocavecchia: nuove testimonianze di relazioni con l’Egeo e il Mediterraneo orientale,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 637-651.

R, Jung, “Pote? Quando? Wann? Quand? When? Translating Italo-Aegean Synchronisms,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 473-484.

V. La Rosa, “Pour une réflexion sur le problème de la première presence égéenne en Sicile,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 571-583.

M. Marazzi and S. Tusa, “Egei in Occidente. Le piu antiche vie maritime alla luce dei nuovi scavi sull’isola di Pantelleria,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 599-609.

B. Pålsson Hallager, "A New Social Class in Late Bronze Age Crete: Foreign Traders in Khania," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 111-119.

B. Pålsson Hallager, "Crete and Italy in the Late Bronze Age III Period," AJA 89(1985) 293-305.

R. Peroni and F. Trucco (eds.), Enotri e Micenei nella Sibaritide I-II (Taranto 1994).

M. Pincherle, La civiltà minoica in Italia: le città saturnie (Ospedaletto 1990).

A. Rizio, “Vivara: An ‘International’ Port in the Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 623-627.

L. Vagnetti, "Late Minoan III Crete and Italy: Another View," PdP 40(1985) 29-33.

L. V. Watrous, "A Preliminary Report on Imported "Italian" Wares from the Late Bronze Age Site of Kommos on Crete," SMEA 27(1989) 69-79.

L. V. Watrous, P. M. Day, and R. E. Jones, "The Sardinian Pottery from the Late Bronze Age Site of Kommos in Crete: Description, Chemical and Petrographic Analysis, and Historical Context," in M. S. Balmuth and R. H. Tykot (eds.), Sardinian and Aegean Chronology: Towards the Resolution of Relative and Absolute Dating in the Mediterranean (Oxford 1998) 337-340.

G. S. Webster, A Prehistory of Sardinia 2300 - 500 B.C. [Sheffield Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 5] (Sheffield 1996).

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Neopalatial Texts and Sealing Systems
[see also under "Linear A" in the lesson entitled "Middle Minoan Crete"]

I. Schoep, Minoan Administration on Crete. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Documents in Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leuven 1996).

I. Schoep, "Towards an Interpretation of Different Levels of Administration in Late Minoan IB Crete," Aegean Archaeology 3 (Warsaw 1996) 75-85.

I. Schoep, "Tablets and Territories? Reconstructing Late Minoan IB Political Geography through Undeciphered Documents," AJA 103(1999) 201-221.

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Minoan Survivals in Classical Greek Culture

A. Evans, "The Minoan and Mycenaean Element in Hellenic Life," JHS 32(1912) 277-297.

S. Sherratt, "With Us but Not of Us: The Role of Crete in Homeric Epic," in D. Evely, I. S. Lemos, and S. Sherratt (eds.), Minotaur and Centaur: Studies in the Archaeology of Crete and Euboea Presented to Mervyn Popham [BAR International 638] (Oxford 1996) 87-99.

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MONOPALATIAL CRETE: Knossos in the Late Minoan II and IIIA1 Periods: the Era of the Warrior-Graves

[see "LM Painting and Representational Art" for LM II-IIIA1 pottery, "LM Non-Palatial Architecture" for LM II-IIIA settlements]

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Synthetic Treatments of the Monopalatial Era

H. W. Catling, Some Problems in Aegean Prehistory, c.1450-1380 B.C. [14th J. L. Myres Memorial Lecture] (Oxford 1989).

J. Driessen and A. Farnoux, "La Crète mycénienne ou les noces d'Ariane et de Thésée," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 1-7.

J. Driessen and I. Schoep, "The Architect and the Scribe. Political Implications of Architectural and Administrative Changes on MM II - LM IIIA Crete," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) II: 649-664.

R. J. Firth, "Estimating the Population of Crete during LM IIIA/B," Minos 29-30 (1994-95) 33-55.

E. Hallager, "Final Palatial Crete. An Essay in Minoan Chronology," in Studies in Ancient History and Numismatics Presented to Rudi Thomsen (Aarhus 1988) 11-21.

S. Hood, "Warlike Destruction in Crete c. 1450 B.C.," Pepragmena tou E' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 1985) 170-178.

V. La Rosa, "La civiltà cretese dal MM III al miceneo," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1063-1089.

N. Merousis, “Changes in the Economic and Administrative Organization of Crete in the Late Minoan II-III Period: A New Proposal,” BSA 97(2002) 163-169.

A. D. Peatfield, “After the ‘Big Bang’ – What? Or, Minoan Symbols and Shrines beyond Palatial Collapse,” in S. A. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds.), Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece (Oxford 1994) 19-36.

M. R. Popham, "Cretan Sites Occupied between c. 1450 and 1400 B.C.," BSA 75(1980) 163-167.

L. Preston, “A Mortuary Perspective on Political Changes in Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete,” AJA 108(2004) 321-348.

P. Rehak and J. G. Younger, "Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete," AJA 102(1998) 91-173.

D. Vallianou, "New Evidence of Earthquake Destructions in Late Minoan Crete," in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 153-168.

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Knossos and the Surrounding Town in the Late Minoan II - III Periods

J. Bennet, "Knossos and LM III Crete: a Post-palatial Palace?," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 307-312.

D. Doxey, "Causes and Effects of the Fall of Knossos in 1375 B.C.," OJA 6(1987) 301-324.

J. Driessen, An Early Destruction in the Mycenaean Palace at Knossos: A New Interpretation of the Excavation Field-Notes of the South-East Area of the West Wing (Leuven 1990).

J. Driessen, "Le début de l'occupation mycénienne 'eni Knoso eureie'," in C. Brixhe (ed.), Sur la Crète antique. Histoire, écritures, langues (Nancy 1991) 25-41.

J. Driessen, "The Palace at Knossos and its Administration during LM II-III," BICS 40(1995) 244-246.

J. Driessen, "The Arsenal of Knossos (Crete) and Mycenaean Chariot Forces," in M. Lodewijckx (ed.), Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies (1996) 481-498.

J. Driessen, "Le palais de Cnossos au MR II-III: combien de destructions?," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 113-134.

J. Driessen, “Centre and Periphery: Some Observations on the Administration of the Kingdom of Knossos,” in S. Voutsaki and J. Killen (eds.), Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palace States (Cambridge 2001) 96-112.

J. Driessen, “Kretes and Ijawones. Observations on the Identity of Late Bronze Age Knossians,” in J. Bennet and J. Driessen (eds.), ANAQOTA. Studies on Mycenaean Society and Economy Presented to J. T. Killen [Minos Supplement 20] (forthcoming).

E. B. French, "Ephyraean Goblets at Knossos: The Chicken or the Egg," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 149-152.

R. Hägg, "Religious Syncretism at Knossos and in Post-Palatial Crete?," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 163-168.

E. Hallager, The Mycenaean Palace at Knossos (Stockholm 1977).

E. Hallager, "The History of the Palace at Knossos in the Late Minoan Period," SMEA 19(1978) 17-33.

H. W. Haskell, "LM III Knossos: Evidence beyond the Palace," SMEA 27(1989) 81-110.

E. Hatzaki, “From Final Palatial to Postpalatial Knossos: A View from the Late Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIB Town,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 121-126.

F. C. D. Hentschel, The Basis for the Standard Chronology of the Late Bronze Age at Knossos (Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University 1982).

S. Hiller, "Cretan Sanctuaries and Mycenaean Palatial Administration at Knossos," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 205-212

M. S. F. Hood, "'Last Palace' and 'Reoccupation' at Knossos," Kadmos 4(1965) 16-44.

M. S. F. Hood, "Date of the 'Reoccupation' Pottery from the Palace of Minos at Knossos," Kadmos 5(1966) 121-141.

W-D. Niemeier, "Mycenaean Knossos and the Age of Linear B," SMEA 23(1982) 219-287.

W-D. Niemeier, "Das mykenische Knossos und das Alter von Linear B," Beiträge zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 11 (Marburg 1982) 29-126.

W-D. Niemeier, "The Character of the Knossian Palace Society in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

B.C.: Mycenaean or Minoan?," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 217-236.

L. R. Palmer, The Penultimate Palace of Knossos [Incunabula Graeca 33] (Rome 1969).

L. R. Palmer and J. Boardman, On the Knossos Tablets (Oxford 1963).

M. R. Popham, The Destruction of the Palace at Knossos. Pottery of the Late Minoan IIIA Period (Göteborg 1970).

M. R. Popham, The Minoan Unexplored Mansion at Knossos (London 1984).

M. Popham, "The Use of the Palace at Knossos at the Time of its Destruction, c. 1400 B.C.," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 297-299.

M. Popham, "The Historical Implications of the Linear B Archive at Knossos Dating to Either ca. 1400 B.C. or 1200 B.C.," Cretan Studies 1(1988) 217-227.

M. R. Popham, "Late Minoan II to the End of the Bronze Age," in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 89-102.

M. R. Popham, "The Final Destruction of the Palace at Knossos: Seals, Sealings and Pottery: A Reconsideration," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 375-385.

H. von Arbin, "The Alabstron-shaped Vases in the 'Throne Room' at Knossos," Opuscula Atheniensia 15(1984) 7-16.

P. M. Warren, “Knossos: Stratigraphical Museum Excavations, 1978-82. Part II,” JHS-AR 29(1982-83) 63-87.

P. Warren, "The Destruction of the Palace of Knossos," in V. Karageorghis (ed.), The Civilizations of the Aegean and their Diffusion in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, 2000-600 B.C. (Larnaca 1989) 32-37.

H. Waterhouse, "The Flat Alabastron and the Last Ritual in the Throne Room," OJA 7(1988) 361-367.

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The Warrior Graves of Knossos, Katsambas, Archanes, Phaistos, and Chania

L. Alberti, “The Late Minoan II-IIIA1 Warrior Graves at Knossos: The Burial Assemblages,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 127-136.

S. Alexiou, Ysterominoïkoi taphoi limenos Knossou (Katsambas) (Athens 1967).

S. Alexiou, "Eis neos taphos para ton limena Knosou," AE (1970) 1-12.

E. Baboula, “’Buried’ Metal in Late Minoan Inheritance Customs,” in C. F. E. Pare (ed.), Metals Make the World Go Round. The Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe (Oxford 2000) 70-81.

E. Baboula and P. Northover, "Metals Technology versus Context in Late Minoan Burials," in S. M. M. Young, A. M. Pollard, P. Budd, and R. A. Ixer (eds.), Metals in Antiquity [BAR International 792] (Oxford 1999) 146-152.

N. Cucuzza, “Osservazioni sui costumi funerari dell’area di Festòs ed Haghia Triada nel TM IIIA1-A2 Iniziale,” Creta Antica 3(2002) 133-166.

J. Driessen and C. MacDonald, "Some Military Aspects of the Aegean in the Late Fifteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries B.C.," BSA 79(1984) 49-75.

A. Evans, "The Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos,: The Cemetery of Zapher Papoura. The Royal Tomb of Isopata," Archaeologia 59(1906) 391-562.

A. J. Evans, "The 'Tomb of the Double Axes' and Associated Group, and the Pillar Rooms and Ritual Vessels of the 'Little Palace' at Knossos," Archaeologia 65(1913-14) 1-94.

E. Grammatikake, “Gypsades (agros Kyriakos Papadake),” AD 48:2(1993) 445-448.

R. Hägg and F. Sieurin, "On the Origin of the Wooden Coffin in Late Bronze Age Crete," BSA 77(1982) 177-186.

M. S. F. Hood, "Another Warrior-Grave at Ayios Ioannis near Knossos," BSA 51(1956) 81-99.

M. S. F. Hood, "A Minoan Shaft-Grave in the Bank with Hogarth's Tombs," BSA 53-54 (1958-59) 283.

M. S. F. Hood, "A Minoan Shaft-Grave on the Slopes Opposite the Temple Tomb," BSA 53-54(1958-59) 281-282.

M. S. F. Hood and J. N. Coldstream, "A Late Minoan Tomb at Ayios Ioannis near Knossos," BSA 63(1968) 205-218.

M. S. F. Hood and P. de Jong, "Late Minoan Warrior Graves from Ayios Ioannis and the New Hospital Site at Knossos," BSA 47(1952) 243-277.

M. S. F. Hood, G. Huxley, and N. K. Sandars, "A Minoan Cemetery on Upper Gypsades," BSA 53-54(1958-59) 194-262.

R. W. Hutchinsoon, “A Late Minoan Tomb at Knossos,” BSA 51(1956) 68-73.

Ch. Kallitsaki, "The Mycenaean Burial Enclosure in Phourni, Archanes," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 213-227.

A. Karytinos, "Sealstones in Cemeteries: A Display of Social Status?," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 78-86.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, "Noch einmal zu den "Kriegergräbern" von Knossos," JRGZM 32(1985) 196-214.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, "Jewellery in Mycenaean and Minoan Warrior Graves," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 161-171.

V. La Rosa and P. Militello, “Caccia, Guerra o rituale? Alcune considerazioni sulle arme minoiche da Festòs e Haghia Triada,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 241-264.

W. Löwe, Spätbronzezeitliche Bestattungen auf Kreta [BAR International 642] (Oxford 1996).

C. Macdonald, "A Knossian Weapon Workshop in Late Minoan II and IIIA," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 293-295.

H. Matthäus, "Minoische Kriegergräber," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 203-215.

R. Paribeni, "Ricerche nel sepolcreto di Haghia Triada presso Phaestos," Monumenti Antichi 14(1904) 677-756.

I. Pini, Beiträge zur minoischen Gräberkunde (Wiesbaden 1968).

M. R. Popham and E. A. and H. W. Catling, "Sellopoulo Tombs 3 and 4, Two Late Minoan Graves near Knossos," BSA 69(1974) 195-257.

L. Preston, “Mortuary Practices and the Negotiation of Social Identities at LM II Knossos,” BSA 94(1999) 131-143.

L. Preston, “A Mortuary Perspective on Political Changes in Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete,” AJA 108(2004) 321-348.

L. Preston, “Final Palatial Knossos and Postpalatial Crete: A Mortuary Perspective on Political Dynamics,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 137-145.

L. Preston, “Contextualizing the Larnax: Tradition, I”nnovation and Regionalism in Coffin Use on Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete,” OJA 23(2004) 177-197.

L. Preston, “The Kephala Tholos at Knossos: A Study in the Reuse of the Past,” BSA 100(2005) 61-123.

J. Sakellarakis, "Das Kuppelgrab von Archanes und das kretisch-mykenische Tieropferritual," PZ 45(1971) 135-218.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, "Mykenaïkos taphikos peribolos eis Kreten," AAA 5(1972) 399-415.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes (Athens 1991) 67-85, 128-134.

Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Archanes. Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens 1997).

L. Savignoni, "Scavi e scoperte nella necropoli di Phaestos," Monumenti antichi 14(1904) 501-666.

J. Whitley, “Objects with Attitude: Biographical Facts and Fallacies in the Study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Warrior Graves,” CAJ 12(2002) 217-232.

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Sites Other than Knossos during the LM II - IIIA1 Periods

E. Andrikou, E Ysterominoïke III enkatastase stis Archanes (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Athens 1991).

J. A. Arvanitakis, The Neopalatial – Final Palatial Transition at Kommos in South-central Crete: Evidence for Connections with Knossos and for the Extent of Mycenaean Influence in the LM II – IIIA1 Ceramic Record (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto 2005).

E. Banou and G. Rethemiotakis, "Centre and Periphery: New Evidence for the Relations between Knossos and the Area of Viannos in the LM II - IIIA Periods," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 23-57.

T. M. Brogan, R. A. K. Smith, and J. S. Soles, “Mycenaeans at Mochlos? Exploring Culture and Identity in the Late Minoan IB to IIIA1 Transition,” Aegean Archaeology 6(2002) 89-118.

N. Cucuzza, “Osservazioni sui costumi funerary dell’area di Festos ed Haghia Triada nel TM IIIA1-A2 iniziale,” Creta Antica 3(2003) 133-166.

N. Cucuzza, “Il volo del Grifo: Osservazioni sulla Haghia Triada ‘Micenea’,” Creta Antica 4(2004) 199-272.

A.-L. D'Agata, "Hidden Wars: Minoans and Mycenaeans at Haghia Triada in the LM III Period. The Evidence from Pottery," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 47-55.

A. Farnoux, "Malia au Minoen Récent II-IIIA1," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997)135-147.

E. Hallager, "Architecture of the LM II/III Settlement in Khania," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 175-185.

V. La Rosa, “La c.d. Tomba degli ori e il nouvo settore nord-est dell’insediamento di Haghia Triada,” Annuario 70-71(1992-93) 121-172.

V. La Rosa, "Haghia Triada à l'époque mycénienne: l'utopie d'une ville-capitale," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 249-266.

J. A. MacGillivray, "The Re-Occupation of Eastern Crete in the Late Minoan II - IIIA1/2 Periods," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 275-279.

B. Pålsson-Hallager, "Late Minoan II and Chania," Pepragmena tou ST' Diethnous Kretologikou Diethnous Synedriou A2 (Chania 1990) 77-83.

R. Paribeni, "Ricerche nel sepolcreto di Haghia Triada presso Phaestos," Monumenti antichi 14(1904) 677-755.

O. Pelon, "Le palais post-palatial à Malia," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 341-355.

M. R. Popham, "Cretan Sites Occupied between c. 1450 and 1400 B.C.," BSA 75(1980) 163-167.

J. W. and M. C. Shaw, "'Mycenaean' Kommos," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 425-434.

L. V. Watrous and D. Hadzi-Vallianou, “Palatial Rule and Collapse (Middle Minoan IB – Late Minoan IIIB),” in L. V. Watrous, D. Hadzi-Vallianou, and H. Blitzer, The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete [Monumenta Archaeologica 23] (Los Angeles 2004) 277-304.

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The Palace Style and LM II-IIIA1 Ceramics

M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki and E. Papadopoulou, "LM IIIA:1 Pottery from Khamalevri, Rethymnon," in E. and B. P. Hallager (eds.), Late Minoan III Pottery: Chronology and Terminology [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 1] (Aarhus 1997) 111-151.

J. Arvanitakis, “Evidence for Ceramic Regionalism in Early Final Palatial Crete: New Perspectives,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 243-249.

J. H. Crouwel and C. E. Morris, "Pictorial Pottery of Late Minoan II - LM IIIA2 Early from Knossos," BSA 90(1995) 157- .

J. H. Crouwel and W.-D. Niemeier, "Eine knossische Palaststilscherbe mit Bukranion-Darstellung aus Mykene," AA (1989) 5- .

A.-L. D'Agata, "Hidden Wars: Minoans and Mycenaeans at Haghia Triada in the LM III Period. The Evidence from Pottery," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 47-55.

S. Hiller, "Der SM II - Palaststil. Ausdruck politischer Ideologie?," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) II: 561-573.

W-D. Niemeier, Die Palaststilkeramik von Knossos. Stil, Chronologie und historischer Kontext (Berlin 1985).

M. R. Popham, The Minoan Unexplored Mansion at Knossos [BSA Supplement 17] (Oxford 1984) 151-182.

J. B. Rutter, “Southwestern Anatolian Pottery from Late Minoan Crete: Evidence for Direct Contacts between Arzawa and Keftiu?,” in M. H. Wiener, J. L. Warner, J. Polonsky, and E. E. Hayes (eds.), Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery [Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt] (Boston 2006) 138-153.

M. Tsipopoulou and L. Vagnetti, "A Late Minoan III Grey Wheel-made Piriform Jar from Eastern Crete," SMEA 34(1994) 43-50.

L. V. Watrous, "The Relationship of Late Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIA1," AJA 85(1981) 75-77.

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Survivals of Minoan Neopalatial Forms in the Monopalatial and Final Palatial Eras

N. Demopoulou, J-P. Olivier, and G. Rethemiotakis, "Une statuette en argile MR IIIA de Poros/Irakliou avec inscription en linéaire A," BCH 117(1993) 501-521.

O. Krzyszkowska, Aegean Seals: An Introduction [BICS Supplement 85] (London 2005), esp. 193-231.

D. Levi, "La tomba a tholos di Kamilari presso a Festos," Annuario 23-24(1961-62) 7-148.

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Linear B and the Late Minoan III Economic, Religious, Political, and Social Order

J. Bennet, "The Structure of the Linear B Administration at Knossos," AJA 89(1985) 231-249.

J. Bennet, "The Wild Country East of Dikte: The Problem of East Crete in the LM III Period," in J. T. Killen, J. L. Melena, and J-P. Olivier (eds.), Studies in Mycenaean and Classical Greek Presented to John Chadwick [Minos 20-22] (Salamanca 1987) 77-88.

J. Bennet, "Knossos in Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Linear B Administration of LM II-III Crete," AJA 94(1990) 193-211.

P. P. Betancourt, "Discontinuity in the Minoan-Mycenaean Religions: Smooth Development or Disruptions and War?," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 219-225.

J. Driessen, “Centre and Periphery: Some Observations on the Administration of the Kingdom of Knossos,” in S. Voutsaki and J. Killen (eds.), Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palace States (Cambridge 2001) 96-112.

L. Godart and Y. Tzédakis, "Les royaumes mycéniens de Crète," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 153-161.

S. Hiller, "Cretan Sanctuaries and Mycenaean Palatial Administration at Knossos," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 205-212.

J. T. Killen, "The Role of the State in Wheat and Olive Production in Mycenaean Crete," Aevum 72(1998) 19-23.

L. Melena, and J-P. Olivier (eds.), Studies in Mycenaean and Classical Greek Presented to John Chadwick [Minos 20-22] (Salamanca 1987) 77-88.

N. Merousis, “Changes in the Economic and Administrative Organization of Crete in the Late Minoan II-III Period: A New Proposal,” BSA 97(2002) 163-169.

J-P. Olivier, "La collecte et la circulation de l'information économique dans la Crète mycénienne," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 313-317.

T. G. Palaima, "Preliminary Comparative Textual Evidence for Palatial Control of Economic Activity in Minoan and Mycenaean Crete," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 301-306.

C. Renfrew, "Word of Minos: The Minoan Contribution to Mycenaean Greek and the Linguistic Geography of the Bronze Age Aegean," CAJ 8(1998) 239-264.

C. W. Shelmerdine, "Historical and Economic Considerations in Interpreting Mycenaean Texts," in J-P. Olivier [ed.], Mykenaïka [BCH Supplement 25] (1992) 567-589.

V. Stürmer, "Culture minoenne versus pouvoir mycénienne," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 435-443.

I. Tournavitou, "Arts and Crafts: Contrasts and Comparisons between Neopalatial and 'Mycenaean' Crete. The Case of Ivory," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 445-454.

I. Tzachili, “Counting and Recording Textiles in the Mycenaean Archives of Knossos,” in A. Michailidou (ed.), Manufacture and Measurement. Counting, Measuring and Recording Craft Items in Early Aegean Societies (Athens 2001) 177-193.

L. V. Watrous and H. Blitzer, "Central Crete in LM II - IIIB1: The Archaeological Background of the Knossos Tablets," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 511-516.

L. V. Watrous and D. Hadzi-Vallianou, “Palatial Rule and Collapse (Middle Minoan IB – Late Minoan IIIB),” in L. V. Watrous, D. Hadzi-Vallianou, and H. Blitzer, The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete [Monumenta Archaeologica 23] (Los Angeles 2004) 277-304.

J. Weingarten, "The Sealing Bureau cracy of Mycenaean Knossos: The Identification of Some Officials and their Seals," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 445-454.

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The Mycenaean Presence on Crete during the Monopalatial Era

J. Bouzek, "Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete: The Problem of Migrations," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 85-90.

E. Cline, “A Wrinkle in Time: Orientalia and the Mycenaean Occupation(s) of Crete,” in J. Phillips (ed.), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East: Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell (San Antonio 1997) 163-167.

N. Cucuzza, “Il volo del Grifo: Osservazioni sulla Haghia Triada ‘Micenea’,” Creta Antica 4(2004) 199-272.

O. Dickinson, "Minoans in Mainland Greece, Mycenaeans in Crete?," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 63-71.

J. Driessen and A. Farnoux, "Mycenaeans at Malia?," in B. Rutkowski (ed.), Aegean Archaeology I (Warsaw 1994) 54-64.

J. Driessen and I. Schoep, "The Stylus and the Sword. The Role of Scribes and Warriors in the Conquest of Crete," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 389-401.

B. Hallager, "Mycenaean Pottery in Crete," in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 263-269.

H. W. Haskell, "Mycenaeans at Knossos: Patterns in the Evidence," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 187-193.

S. Hiller, "Knossos and Pylos. A Case of Special Relationship?," Cretan Studies 5(1996) 73-83.

M. R. Popham, "Mycenaean-Minoan Relations between 1450 and 1400 B.C.," BICS 23(1976) 119-121.

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FINAL PALATIAL CRETE: Crete in the Late Minoan III Period after the LM IIIA2 Early Destruction of Knossos until the End of the LM IIIB Period

[see "LM Painting and Representational Art" for LM IIIA2-C pottery, "LM Non-Palatial Architecture" for LM IIIA2-C settlements]

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Synthetic Treatments of the Period

E. S. Banou, “Nea stoicheia yia tis scheseis tes Viannou me ten Knoso kata ten Ysterominoïke IIIA epoche,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12] (London 2004) 187-206.

B. Burke, “Materialization of Mycenaean Ideology and the Ayia Triada Sarcophagus,” AJA 109(2005) 403-422.

R. J. Firth, "Estimating the Population of Crete during LM IIIA/B," Minos 29-30 (1994-95) 33-55.

H. W. Haskell, “Wanax to Wanax: Regional Trade Patterns in Mycenaean Crete,” in A. Chapin (ed.), CHARIS : Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr [Hesperia Supplement 33] (Princeton 2004) 151-160.

A. Kanta, The Late Minoan III Period in Crete. A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution (Göteborg 1980).

J-C. Poursat, "La fin des arts 'palatiaux' dans la Crète mycénienne," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 387-390.

F. Schachermeyr, Die ägäische Frühzeit III: Kreta zur Zeit der Wanderungen vom Ausgang der minoischen Ära bis zur Dorisierung der Insel (Vienna 1979).

D. Vallianou, "New Evidence of Earthquake Destructions in Late Minoan Crete," in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 153-168.

H. and M. Van Effenterre, "Sur la Crète mycénienne," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 445-454.

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Settlements

M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki and E. Papadopoulou, “The Habitation at Khamalevri, Rethymnon, during the 12th Century B.C.,” in A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005) 353-397 [with response by B. Eder (399-408) and discussion (409-414)].

E. Andrikou, E Ysterominoïke III enkatastase stis Archanes (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Athens 1991).

E. Banou, “Late Minoan III Mokhlos (East Crete) versus Late Minoan III Viannos (Central Eastern Crete): Differences and Similarities,” in A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005) 145-173 [with response by F. Ruppenstein (175-178) and discussion (179-184)].

N. Cucuzza, "The North Sector Buildings of Haghia Triada," in J. Driessen and A. Farnoux (eds.), La Crète mycénienne [BCH Supplément 30] (Paris 1997) 73-84.

N. Cucuzza, “Religion and Architecture: Early LM IIIA2 Buildings in the Southern Area of Haghia Triada,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 169-174.

N. Cucuzza, “Il volo del Grifo: Osservazioni sulla Haghia Triada ‘Micenea’,” Creta Antica 4(2004) 199-272.

A. L. D'Agata, "Hidden Wars: Minoans and Mycenaeans at Haghia Triada in the LM III Period. The Evidence from Pottery," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 47-55.

A. L. D'Agata, "Dinamiche sociali, modelli culturali e indicatori etnici a H. Triada nel TM III. L'evidenza offerta dalla ceramica," in V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI. Simposio Italiano de Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Rome 1999) 189-198.

A. Farnoux, “Malia et la Crète à l’époque mycénienne,” RA (1992) 201-216.

E. Hallager, "Khania and Crete ca. 1375-1200 B.C.," Cretan Studies 1(1988) 115-124.

H. W. Haskell, "LM III Knossos: Evidence Beyond the Palace," SMEA 27(1989) 81-110.

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