Katarzyna Żebrowska Agata Ulanowska Kazimierz Lewartowski

Vol. 1 Edited by Katarzyna Żebrowska Agata Ulanowska Kazimierz Lewartowski SYMPOZJUM EGEJSKIE PAPERS IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 1 (2017) EDITED BY KATARZYNA ŻEBROWSKA, AGATA ULANOWSKA & KAZIMIERZ LEWARTOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW SYMPOZJUM EGEJSKIE PAPERS IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 1 (2017) Editors: Katarzyna Żebrowska (University of Warsaw) Agata Ulanowska (University of Warsaw) Kazimierz Lewartowski (University of Warsaw) Reviewers: Mirosław Barwik (University of Warsaw) Kinga Bigoraj (University of Warsaw) Tomasz Gralak (University of Wrocław) Jolanta Młynarczyk (University of Warsaw) Krzysztof Nowicki (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences) Kostas Paschalidis (National Archaeological Museum of Athens) Tomasz Scholl (University of Warsaw) Małgorzata Siennicka (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Anna Smogorzewska (University of Warsaw) Language proof: Paul Barford Front cover and layout: Maria Jagodzińska Publication financed by the University of Warsaw and Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw © Copyrigths: Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw and the individual authors, 2017 ISBN 978-83-61376-59-0 ISSN 2544-6398 Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction KATARZYNA ŻEBROWSKA, AGATA ULANOWSKA, KAZIMIERZ LEWARTOWSKI 7 The multi-chamber tombs in Mavro Spilio: a Cypriot origin? SOFIA ANTONELLO 11 Animals in insular environment The case of Bronze Age Crete through aspects of Minoan art CHRISTOS BOUTSIDIS 19 Small finds analysis: typology and function A case study from Phaistos MARIANNA FIGUERA 27 A note on some pictorial finds from the dromos of Tomb 1 of the Mycenaean cemetery of the Trapeza Traces of funerary rites performed after the burial of the dead AGATA LICCIARDELLO 39 The age of innocence Parallel young lives in Crete and Cyprus GIULIA MUTI 47 Textile technology and Minoan glyptic Representations of loom weights on Middle Minoan prismatic seals AGATA ULANOWSKA 57 Western Anatolia and the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age A view from the Gulf of Izmir RIK VAESSEN 67 The human life hidden in a symbol of flower Between Minoan world and Egypt MONIKA WESOŁOWSKA 79 Plates with coloured figures 85 INTRODUCTION Aegean Archaeology is a dynamically developing dis- customs but currently his interests focus on memory cipline of broad horizons. It explores a vast array of re- of the past among the Archaic and Classical Greeks. search fields such as the archaeology of social organ- isation, religion, gender, landscape, human mobility, The history of the Aegean Conferences at technology etc., and uses a wide range of approaches, the University of Warsaw often multidisciplinary. After more than a century of intensive research and excavations, it still has the The idea of creating the new publication series called potential of making stunning discoveries as proved ‘Sympozjum Egejskie’ was born as a result of the success by recent work at Pylos and Prosilio. The geographi- of consecutive conferences on Aegean Archaeology, cal range of issues related to the Bronze Age Aegean organised by the editors since 2013. The 1st Students’ broadens successively. Aegean archaeologists are busy Conference in Aegean Archaeology organised at the with studying their finds and reconstructing the past University of Warsaw on January 18th, 2013, was an using modern and diversified methodologies includ- initiative of students. There was much need for an ing concepts borrowed from social sciences, econ- opportunity to present work in the field of Aegean omy or natural sciences. Aegean archaeology keeps Archaeology to a broader public, since no other aca- pace with the development of knowledge, its former demic event offered the students a similar possibility. achievements are thus often the subject of critical It was designed as a platform enabling its participants views published in numerous volumes and papers to exchange ideas about the presented topics, share or with “rethinking” or “re-examining” included in their compare different research methods and perspectives, titles. Each year, numerous new scholars and students and develop scientific interests oscillating around di- enter this fascinating field of studies bringing up new verse aspects within the same field of knowledge. ideas, research projects, materials and methodologies. Therefore, it is our great honour to present the first The 2nd Aegean Conference volume of the publication ‘Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology’, a new, peer-reviewed series The next conference,Second Students’ Conference in created as a platform presenting and introducing Aegean Archaeology. Methods – Researches – Perspec- a broad scope of new research approaches and themes, tives, which took place at the Institute of Archaeology as well as the newcomers to the discipline, i.e. these in Warsaw on April 25th, 2014, attracted a number authors who are at the beginning of their research ca- of international speakers and broadened significantly reer in the field of Aegean Archaeology. We also hope the range of discussed topics. This time, a small poster that this series will serve as a concise guide presenting session was also included in the program. The event, the most recent research interests undertaken by early aimed exclusively at young researchers in the dis- career scholars, as well as new trends in archaeology cipline, received positive feedback. It became clear of the Bronze Age Aegean. that the meetings should continue to be organized The series is published by the Department annually and English became the official language of Aegean Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, of the event. The proceedings of this second event University of Warsaw. Its editors, all Aegean archae- have been published in the 4th volume of the Italian ologists themselves, represent various academic in- series Syndesmoi. Quaderni del corso internazionaliz- terests: Katarzyna Żebrowska specialises in the fields zato in Archeologia: Catania, Konya, Varsavia thanks of Italo-Aegean contacts, Aegean influences in Sicilian to the support of Prof. Pietro Maria Militello from the cultures, and funerary architecture, especially in re- University of Catania.1 lation to the landscape, Agata Ulanowska specialises in textile archaeology, specifically textile production, weaving technology and the functionality of textile 1 Militello, P., K. Żebrowska (eds.) 2016, Sympozjum Egejskie. tools, and experimental and experience archaeology, Proceedings of The 2nd Students’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology: Methods – Researches – Perspective, Institute Kazimierz Lewartowski specialises in Mycenaean ar- of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland, April 25th, chaeology with an emphasis on Mycenaean burial 2014, Syndesmoi 4 (Quaderni del corso internazionalizzato in Archeologia: Catania, Konya, Varsavia), Catania. 8 INTRODUCTION The 3rd Aegean Conference In her article, Sofia Antonello investigates the par- In 2015, the Aegean Archaeology Department organ- ticular form of the Minoan multi-chamber tomb using ised the Conference in collaboration with the Institute the example of six Middle Minoan II–III such struc- of Prehistory, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. tures known from the Mavro Spilio necropolis, to the The event, which had grown into a two-day meeting, northeast of the palace of Knossos. She notes that was divided into two individual panels. The Institute Cretan tombs of this type can only be found around of Prehistory hosted the undergraduate and graduate Knossos and in locations in some way connected with students part of the conference, while the Institute the palace. The author turns our attention to Bronze of Archaeology held the proceedings of the panel Age Cyprus, the possible place of origin of the multi- of young researchers (PhD students and doctors who -chamber form. Finally, she discusses some reasons and had recently been assigned the title). For the purposes meanings behind the adoption of this funerary form of the panel, the range of subjects was grouped into in Crete. five blocks concerning burial customs, the archaeology In his contribution, Christos Boutsidis deals with of Crete, humans and nature, inter-Mediterranean animal representations preserved on different types relations, and textile manufacturing. Prof. Janusz of Minoan objects. The quantitative and qualitative Czebreszuk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) analyses of the depictions conducted in diachronic gave an opening lecture on amber in the Aegean order allow the author to distinguish the kinds of an- world. Apart from the authors listed in this volume, imals prevailing in each period and on different types Mariya Avramova (Antiquity of Southeastern Europe of mediums. This is accompanied by short commen- Research Centre, University of Warsaw), Kinga taries on the possible reasons standing behind the Bigoraj (Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research popularity of respective creatures in particular periods Centre, University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Dudlik of time. (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Agnieszka Dr Marianna Figuera demonstrates how a rela- Kaliszewska (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, tional database can be useful in the study of small finds, Polish Academy of Sciences), Monika Koźlakowska perceived as a rather problematic category of artefacts. (Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, She describes her own successful attempts of man- University of Warsaw), Carissa Nicholson (University aging reference

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