Publications

Articles by Tom Palaima

“Note on Vase Inscription KH Z1,” Nestor 6:6 (1979) 1378-1379 || PDF Download

“Observations on Pylian Epigraphy,” Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 21 (1980) 193-203 || PDF Download

“On the Painted Linear Sign from a Wall at Knossos,” Kadmos 20 (1981) 79-82 || PDF Download

“The Organization of Scribal Administration at Pylos,” Acts of the Second International Congress of Peloponnesian Studies, Patras, Greece, May 25-31, 1980 [Athens, 1982] 314-320, plates 14-16 || PDF Download

“Linear A in the Cyclades: The Trade and Travel of a Script,” Temple University Aegean Symposium 7 (1982) 15-22. || PDF Download

“Evidence for the Influence of the Knossian Graphic Tradition at Pylos,” Concilium Eirene XVI ,Proceedings of the 16th International Eirene Congress, Prague, 31.8-4.9 1982 (Prague 1983) 80-84, plates I-II || PDF Download

“Scribal Organization and Palatial Activity,” Pylos Comes Alive, 31-39 || PDF Download

“An Inscribed Stirrup Jar of Cretan Origin from Bamboula, Cyprus,” Kadmos 23 (1984) 65-73 [with P. Betancourt and G.E. Myer] || PDF Download

“Mycenaean Archaeology and the Pylos Texts,” Archaeological Review from Cambridge 3:2 (1984) 76-89 [with C.W. Shelmerdine] || PDF Download

“Inscribed Stirrup Jars and Regionalism in Linear B Crete,” Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 25 (1984) 189-203 || PDF Download

“Secondary Criteria for Identifying Scribal Hands: Interdisciplinary Considerations,” Text 2 (1985) 55-67. || PDF Download

“Perspectives on the Pylos Oxen Tablets: Textual (and Archaeological) Evidence for the Use and Management of Oxen in the Late Bronze Age Messenia (and Crete),” Studia Mycenaea (1988), 85-124. || PDF Download

“Michael Ventris’s Blueprint,” Discovery. Research and Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin 13:2 (1993) 20-26

“The Last Days of the Pylos Polity,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier eds., Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 12 (Liège 1995) 623-633, plate LXXIV

“The Nature of the Mycenaean Wanax: Non-Indo-European Origins and Priestly Functions,” in P. Rehak ed., The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean, Aegaeum 11 (Liège 1995) 119-139, plates XLI-XLII

“A Linear B Tablet from Heidelberg,” in Politeia, 699-670 || PDF Download

“Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?” in J. Bennet and J. Driessen eds., A-NA-QO-TA. Festschrift for J.T. Killen (Minos 33-34: Salamanca 2002) 205-221

”Classics: Apocalypse Now or Working Toward the Future?” Classical Bulletin 75.1 (1999) 85-97, a special issue devoted to the current state and future of Classics edited by L. Golden and K. Herbert.

“Kn02 – Tn 316,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy et al. eds., Floreant Studia Mycenaea. Akten des X. Internationalen Mykenologischen Colloquiums in Salzburg vom 1.-5. Mai 1995 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 274: Vienna 1999) Band II, 437-461.

(with Elizabeth Sikkenga) “Linear A > Linear B,” MELETEMATA. Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year (Aegaeum 20: Liège and Austin 1999) 599-608

“Mycenaean Militarism from a Textual Perspective. Onomastics in Context: lawos, damos, klewos,” in R. Laffineur ed., Polemos: Warfare in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 19: Liège and Austin 1999) 367-378

“The Modalities of Economic Control at Pylos,” KTEMA 26 (2001) 151-159. || PDF Download

(with E. Pope and F. Kent Reilly) Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, March 9–August 1, 2000 (Austin 2000) Pp. vi + 34. 24 text figures. [rev. THES (09/01/00) 25; AJA 106 (2002) 602-604]

“Courage and Prowess Afoot in Homer and the Vietnam of Tim O’Brien,” Classical and Modern Literature 20/3 (2000) 1-22

“The Pylos Ta Series: From Michael Ventris to the New Millennium,” in BICS 44 (2000) 236-237.

“themis in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko,” Faventia 22/1 (2000) 7-19

“The Browning Version’s and Classical Greek,” in B. Amden, P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, A. Schwartz, and Chr. G. Tortzen eds., Noctes Atticae. Studies in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Its Nachleben (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2002 ISBN: 87-72-89-778-3) 199-214

“OL Zh 1: Quousque tandem?” Minos 37-38 (2002-2003) pp. 373-385

“Archaeology and Text: Decipherment, Translation and Interpretation,” in J.K. Papadopoulos and R.M. Leventhal eds., Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives (Cotsen Advanced Seminars 1, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles 2003) pp. 45-73, bibliography 319-378

“‘Archives’ and ‘Scribes’ and Information Hierarchy in Mycenaean Greek Linear B Records,” in Maria Brosius ed., Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003) 153-194 figs. 8.1-8.9

“Reviewing the New Linear B tablets from Thebes,” Kadmos 42 (2003) 31-38

“The Inscribed Bronze ‘Kessel’ from Shaft Grave IV and Cretan Heirlooms of the Bronze Age Artist named ‘Aigeus’ vel sim. in the Mycenaean Palatial Period,” in Y. Duhoux ed., BRICIAKA. A Tribute to W. C. Brice = Cretan Studies 9 [2003] 187-201, pl. XXXI.

“As Told To Wallace Terry,” War, Literature and the Arts 15 (2003) 171-172

“Mycenaean Accounting Methods and Systems and Their Place Within Mycenaean Palatial Civilization,” in C. Wunsch and Michael Hudson eds., Creating Economic Order: Record-Keeping, Standardization and the Development of Accounting in the Ancient Near East, International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies Vol. 4 (Baltimore: CDL Press 2004) 269-301

“Sacrificial Feasting in the Linear B tablets,” in J. C. Wright ed., The Mycenaean Feast, Hesperia 73.2 (2004) 217-246

“Linear B Sources” in S. Trzaskoma et al. eds., Anthology of Classical Myth (Hackett Publishing: Indianapolis/Cambridge 2004) 439-454

“Syntax and Context as Tools for Interpreting Mycenaean Texts and Scribal Processes: Un 718, Ta 709 and K(1) 740,” in T. Krisch, T. Lindner and U. Müller eds., Analecta Homini Universali Dicata = Festschrift Oswald Panagl, Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik Nr. 421 (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz 2004) 268-278

The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History (Annual Lecture 2004: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005). Pp. 64.

Humanities Research Center UT Austin Poetry on the Plaza; “Bob Dylan American Homer” March 1, 2006

“FAR? or ju? and other interpretative conundra in the new Thebes Tablets,” in S. Deger-Jalkotzy and O. Panagl eds., Die Neuen Linear B-Texte aus Theben (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2006) pp. 139-148

“wanaks and Related Power Terms in Mycenaean and Later Greek,” S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I. Lemos eds., Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2006) 53-71

“Civilian Knowledge of War and Violence in Ancient Athens and Modern America,” in Michael Cosmopoulos ed., Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the Iraq War (Chicago 2007) 9-34

“Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View,” in S.P. Morris and R. Laffineur eds., Epos. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology (Aegeaum 28: Liège and Austin 2007) 129-140

“Ilios, Tros and Tlos: Continuing Problems with to-ro, to-ro-o, to-ro-wo, to-ro-ja, wi-ro and a-si-wi-ja/a-si-wi-jo” in F. Lang, C. Reiholdt and J. Weilhärtner, eds. ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΕΙΟΣ Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Phoibos Verlag Vienna 2007) 197-204

“A New Linear B Inscription from the Land Down Under,” in Louise A. Hitchcock, Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowley eds., DAIS. The Aegean Feast. Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference University of Melbourne, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, 25-29 March 2008. Aegaeum 29, Liège and Austin: 2008, pp. 429-432

“Mycenaean Religion,” in C.W. Shelmerdine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (CUP 2008) 342- 355, 358-361

“The Significance of Mycenaean Words Relating to Meals, Meal Rituals, and Food,,” in Louise A. Hitchcock, Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowley eds., DAIS. The Aegean Feast. Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference University of Melbourne, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, 25-29 March 2008. Aegaeum 29, Liège and Austin: 2008, pp. 383-389

“Continuity from the Mycenaean Period in an historical Boeotian Cult of Poseidon (and Erinys),” in D. Danielidou ed., Doron: Timetikos Tomos gia ton Kathegete Spyro Iakobide (Academy of Athens Center for Research in Antiquity Monograph 6: Athens 2009) 527-536

“Linear B,” in E. Cline ed., Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 356-372

“Scribes, Scribal Hands and Palaeography,” in Y. Duhoux and A. Morpurgo Davies eds., A Companion to Linear B Texts (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 127:2 Peeters: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2011) pp. 33-136

“Euboea, Athens and Thebes: The Implications of the Linear B References,” in D. W. Rupp, J. E. Tomlinson et al. (eds.) Euboea and Athens: Proceedings of a Colloquium in Memory of Malcolm B. Wallace. Athens, 26-27 June 2009 Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, No. 6, 2011, pp. 53-76

“Security and Insecurity as Tools of Power in Mycenaean Palatial Kingdoms,” Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII[e] colloque international sur les textes égéens, Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010, édités par Pierre Carlier, Charles De Lamberterie, Markus Egetmeyer, Nicole Guilleux, Françoise Rougemont, Julien Zurbach, 2012, pp. XXVIII-616 Pasiphae Pisa-Rome 2012.

“KO Ko 2010 Cloth fragments of the Rapinewiad,” in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur eds., Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textile in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 33, Leuven – Liège 2012) pp. 807-810

“Kosmos in the Mycenaean Texts: The Response of Mycenaean ‘Scribes’ to the Culture of Kosmos,” M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur eds., Kosmos: Jewellery, Adornment and Textile in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 33, Leuven – Liège 2012) 697-703 + figures CLIX-CLX

“Pylos Tablet Vn 130 and the Pylos Perfume Industry,” in D. Nakassis et al. eds., Festschrift for Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Aegean Bronze Age literacy and its consequences, 2011. || UT Libraries Link

Articles by Joann Gulizio

“Hermes and e-ma-a2: The Continuity of his Cult from the Bronze Age to the Historical Period,” Živa Antika 50 (2000) 105-116.

“A-re in the Linear B Tablets and the Continuity of the Cult of Ares in the Historical Period,” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001) 32-38

Mycenaean religion at Knossos, 2011. || UT Libraries Link

Articles by Aren Wilson-Wright

“Interpreting the Sinaitic Inscriptions in Context: A New Reading of Sinai 345,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (2013), 136-148

“The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic,” Journal of Semitic Studies LIX/1 Spring 2014

Articles by Sarah James

“The Thebes Tablets and the Fq series: A Contextual Analysis,” Minos 37-38 (2002-2003 [2006]), pp. 397-418

Articles by Amanda Krauss

Articles by Susan Lupack

“Deities and Religious Personnel as Collectors,” in Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives, M. Perna, ed., Studi Egei e Vicinorientali vol. 3, Naples 2006, pp. 89-108

“The Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project (EBAP),” Teiresias: A Review and Bibliography of Boiotian Studies, Vol. 37 part 2 (2007) 25-27.

“The Northeast Building of Pylos and An 1281,” in Colloquium Romanum: Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia, vol. II, A. Sacconi, L. Godart and M. Del Freo, eds., Biblioteca di Pasiphae series, Rome 2008, pp. 467-484

“Helène Whittaker. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014),” European Journal of Archaeology 18, pp. 734–738. 2015. || PDF Download

“The Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project 2007–2010: The Intensive Surface Survey – Eleon,” Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 13, pp. 293–357. Co-authors: V. Aravantinos, Burns, B. Burke, Y. Fappas, and C. MacKay. 2016. || PDF Download

“Pu-ro, Pa-ki-ja-ne, and the Worship of an Ancestral Wanax,” in Metaphysis: Ritual, Myth, and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 39), eds. E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner, Liège and Austin, pp. 537–541. 2016. || PDF Download

“The Ea Series: It Takes a Village,” in Aegean Scripts: Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, Denmark, 2–5 September 2015 (Incunabula Graeca), eds. H. L. Enegren and M.-L. Nosch, Rome, pp. 347–362. 2017. || PDF Download

“The Bull and the Throne: Religious Festivals at Pylos,” in Mykene. Die sagenhafte Welt des Agamemnon/Mycenae: The Legendary World of Agamemnon, Philipp von Zabern, pp. 187-190. 2018. || PDF Download (German)

The role of the religious sector in the economy of late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greece, 2002 || UT Libraries Link

Articles by Dimitri Nakassis

“Beauty in clay: Aesthetics and script in Mycenaean Greece,” in Οι Αμέτρητες Όψεις του Ωραίου στην Αρχαία Τέχνη [The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art], ed. Μ. Λαγογιάννη-Γεωργακαράκου (Αθήνα – Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων) 51-56.

S. Gallimore, S. James, W. Caraher, and D. Nakassis, “To Argos: Archaeological Survey in the Western Argolid, 2014-2016,” in From Maple to Olive: Proceedings of a Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens, 10-11 June 2016, ed. D.W. Rupp and J.E. Tomlinson. Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece 10 (Athens: Canadian Institute in Greece) 421-438.

“Labor and Individuals in Late Bronze Age Pylos,” in Labor in the Ancient Near East, ed. P. Steinkeller and M. Hudson (Dresden: ISLET-Verlag) 583-615.

W. Caraher, D. Nakassis and D.K. Pettegrew, “Intensive Survey,” in Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of An Ancient Coastal Town. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 21, ed. W. Caraher, R.S. Moore and D.K. Pettegrew (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research) 17-47.

review of Yannis A. Lolos, Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State. Hesperia Supplement 39. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. In Classical Journal Online 2012.11.06.

J. Gulizio and D. Nakassis, “The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion,” in KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, ed. D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. A. James (Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press) 115-128.

“Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King in Mycenaean Pylos,” Hesperia 81.1, 1–30.

“Structuration and the State in Mycenaean Greece,” in Agency in Ancient Writing, ed. J. Englehardt (Boulder: University Press of Colorado) 231–247.

“Labor Mobilization in Mycenaean Pylos,” in Étudies mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIIIe colloque international sur les textes égéens (Biblioteca di Pasiphae 10), ed. P. Carlier, C. De Lamberterie, M. Egetmeyer, N. Guilleux, F. Rougemont and J. Zurbach (Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra) 269-283.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty and W. Parkinson, “Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective,” American Journal of Archaeology 115.2, 177–184.

review of Walter Gauß, Michael Lindblom, R. Angus K. Smith, and James C. Wright, eds. Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. In American Journal of Archaeology 117.2.

review of Eric H. Cline, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. In Mouseion 13, 153-155.

review of Richard Hope Simpson, Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos (Prehistory monographs 34). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2014. In The Journal of Hellenic Studies 135, 261–262.

D. Nakassis, M. Galaty and W. Parkinson, “State and Society,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, ed. E. H. Cline (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 239–250.

“Named Individuals and the Mycenaean State at Pylos,” in Colloquium Romanum: Atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia, vol. II, A. Sacconi, L. Godart and M. Del Freo, eds., Biblioteca di Pasiphae series, Rome 2008, pp. 549-561

“Athens, Kylon, and the Dipolieia,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51 (2011) 363–381

The individual and the Mycenaean state : agency and prosopography in the Linear B texts from Pylos, 2006 || UT Libraries Link

Articles by Dimitri Nakassis and Kevin Pluta

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta, “Vorsprung durch Technik: Imaging the Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies. Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015, ed. M.-L. Nosch and H. Landenius Enegren (Roma: Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico)

D. Nakassis and K. Pluta, “The Linear B Tablets from Pylos,” in Odysseys, ed. M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakou (Athens: Archaeological Receipts Fund) 91-96. [=D. Nakassis and K. Pluta (2016) “Οι πινακίδες της Γραμμικής Β Γραφής της Πύλου,” in Οδύσσειες, ed. Μ. Λαγογιάννη-Γεωργακαράκου (Αθήνα – Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων) 91-96.] English PDF || Greek PDF

”Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling,” in Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, ed. K.P. Foster and R. Laffineur, (2003) 335-342.