Vol. 2 Edited by Katarzyna Żebrowska Agata Ulanowska Kazimierz Lewartowski SYMPOZJUM EGEJSKIE PAPERS IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 2 (2019) EDITED BY KATARZYNA ŻEBROWSKA, AGATA ULANOWSKA & KAZIMIERZ LEWARTOWSKI logo WUW.indd 1 5/12/2014 12:54:19 PM INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW SYMPOZJUM EGEJSKIE PAPERS IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 2 (2019) Editors of the series Katarzyna Żebrowska (University of Warsaw) Agata Ulanowska (University of Warsaw) Kazimierz Lewartowski (University of Warsaw) Address Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-092 Warsaw, Poland Editorial board Pietro Maria Militello (University of Catania) Krzysztof Nowicki (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences) Kostas Paschalidis (National Archaeological Museum of Athens) Peter Pavúk (Charles University) Małgorzata Siennicka (University of Göttingen) Reviewers Stefanos Gimatzidis (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona) Włodzimierz Lengauer (University of Warsaw) Beata Miazga (University of Wrocław) Jerolyn Morrison (University of Leicester) Jolanta Młynarczyk (University of Warsaw) Małgorzata Siennicka (University of Göttingen) Peggy Sotirakopoulou (independent researcher) Piotr Taracha (University of Warsaw) Rik Vaessen (independent researcher) Melissa Vetters (University of Salzburg) Jennifer M. Webb (La Trobe University) Jörg Weilhartner (University of Salzburg) Judith Weingarten (British School at Athens) Commissioning editor Dorota Dziedzic Editor Mateusz Tokarski Language proof Paul Barford Front cover and layout Maria Jagodzińska Printing Totem.com.pl © Copyright by the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2019 © Copyright by the University of Warsaw Press, 2019 © Copyright by the individual authors, 2019 Projekt finansowany w ramach programu Ministra Nauki i ISBN 978-83-235-3869-1 (print) Szkolnictwa Wyższego pod nazwą „Strategia Doskonałości ISBN 978-83-235-3877-6 (online) – Uczelnia Badawcza” w latach 2018–2019 nr projektu 0009/ ISSN 2544-6398 SDU/2018/18 w kwocie 968 000,- zł. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego The project is financed from the programme “Strategy of 00-497 Warszawa, ul. Nowy Świat 4 Excellence – University Research” of the Minister of Science [email protected] and Higher Education in the years 2018–2019, project num- Dział Handlowy: tel. (+48 22) 55-31-333 ber 0009/SDU/2018/18, 968,000 PLN, and the Institute of E-mail: [email protected] Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Księgarnia internetowa: www.wuw.pl TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction KATARZYNA ŻEBROWSKA, AGATA ULANOWSKA & KAZIMIERZ LEWARTOWSKI 7 Cycladic Sauceboats in the Deposit of the Camerette in Ayia Triada CHIARA DE GREGORIO 11 A Case of Identity. Investigating the Symbolism of Spindle Whorls in Early and Middle Cypriot Tombs SARAH DOUGLAS, GIULIA MUTI 19 Animism or Analogism? Bird Depictions and Their Significance for the Reconstruction of Cretan Bronze Age Ontologies JULIA BINNBERG 31 Minoan Pottery Kilns: A Re-Evaluation of Their Morphology, Technology, and Function IOANNIS PAPPAS 43 The Kitchen of the Palace and the Cooking Areas of the Houses in a Minoan Neopalatial Town. The Example of Kato Zakros GEORGIOS-PANAGIOTIS GEORGAKOPOULOS 57 The Rules of the Game. Cypriot Bronze Age Gaming Stones: Their ‘Informative Perspective’ about Social Practices ALESSANDRA SAGGIO 69 Materialising Mythology. The Cup of Nestor from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae STEPHANIE AULSEBROOK 79 Aegean Headbands: A Functional Approach. Macroscopic, Microscopic, and Experimental Studies BETTY RAMÉ 91 Between Crete and Anatolia. Metal Finds of the So-Called Lower Interface in the LBA MILOŠ ROHÁČEK 101 Crisis at the Cult Centre. Evidence from the Megaron Basements STEPHANIE AULSEBROOK 111 Pottery as an Indicator of Interregional Contacts. Place of Vardar and Struma River Valleys in the Cultural Network of Central Macedonia in the Late Bronze Age — State of Research and Further Perspectives CEZARY BAHYRYCZ 123 INTRODUCTION After c. 150 years of intensive research, Aegean archae- traditions. In their specialist studies, they use various ology is still a vigorous and dynamically developing methodological approaches, both theoretical and exper- discipline of broad research interests. These comprise imental. This publication is a collection of articles the combination of traditional excavation with scientific which are the outcome of the 4th and 5th Conference methods, research based on large data sets, iconogra- in Aegean Archaeology that took place in Poland in phic and textual studies, studies in religion, gender, 2016 (the young researchers’ session, April 8th, 2016, technology, and production, socio-cultural and socio- Archaeological Museum in Poznań) and 2017 (June economic analyses, methods of landscape and tex- 1st and 2nd, 2017, Institute of Archaeology, University tile archaeologies, as well as theoretical deliberations. of Warsaw). Unfortunately, not all of the papers orig- Geographically, investigation of the Bronze Age Aegean inally presented could be published in this volume. has spread off the shores and islands of the Aegean The list of the conference participants who discussed Sea, to the north and south, east and west, comprising the results of their current work in the field of Aegean now a large area of the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeology comprised also: Claudia V. Alonso- Being so vibrant and dynamic, the archaeology Moreno (Autonomous University of Madrid), Mariya of the Aegean attracts each year new adepts: scholars Avramova (University of Warsaw; National Library and students who enter the discipline with new ideas of Poland), Kinga Bigoraj (University of Warsaw), and research enthusiasm. The Sympozjum Egejskie series Dr Peta Bulmer (University of Liverpool), Katarzyna is a platform created to present and introduce these Dudlik (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Anna new topics, approaches, and methodologies, as well as Filipek (University of Warsaw), Oihane González the achievements of new authors who are at the begin- Herrero (Autonomous University of Madrid), Joseph ning of their research career as ‘Aegeanists ’. Gaynor (University of Liverpool), Michael Hirschler It is our great honour to present the second volume (University of Graz), Beata Kaczmarek (Adam of Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology. Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Monika Koźlakowska This peer-reviewed series was originally created as an (University of Warsaw), Anna Lekka (Hellenic answer to the great interest of adepts of the discipline Ministry of Culture), Stefan Müller (Heidelberg in the Conferences in Aegean Archaeology organised University), Jakub Niebieszczański (Adam Mickiewicz by the editors successively since 2013. Although the core University in Poznań), Francesco Tropea (University of the series derives from the papers presented at the of Nottingham), Dimitris Tsikritsis (University of Conferences in Aegean Archaeology, it also welcomes Edinburgh), Agata Ulanowska (The Centre for Research other contributions relevant to the Aegean Bronze Age. on Ancient Technologies of the Institute of Archae- The first volume in the series, published in 2017, ology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences), comprised eight articles exploring a range of topics and Katarzyna Żebrowska (University of Warsaw). related to the Aegean region and cultures in the Bronze The contributions are arranged in a geo- Age, as well as all connected themes, in this specific chronological order, starting with the discussion on case: funerary architecture and ritual practices, Minoan Cycladic vessels found in the Early and Middle Bronze art, the ties linking textile technology and Minoan Age contexts in Crete. In the article ‘ Cycladic Sauceboats glyptic, the use of databases in the study of small finds, in the Deposit of the Camerette in Ayia Triada ’, Chiara the ‘ archaeology of childhood ’ in Crete and Cyprus, De Gregorio presents the results of typological and as well as Aegean and western Anatolian networks in contextual studies carried out on the Early Minoan the Late Bronze Age.1 III to Middle Minoan II pottery from the Deposit of The present volume, published by the University the Camerette in Ayia Triada. She focuses her atten- of Warsaw Press, contains eleven contributions sub- tion on one particular vessel type present within the mitted by an international group of authors brought ceramic repertoire, the so-called ‘ sauceboat ’, a form up in different ‘ archaeological schools ’ and academic deriving from the Early Cycladic II Keros-Syros Culture. 1 Żebrowska K., A. Ulanowska, K. Lewartowski (eds.) (2017) (available in open access: http://archeologia.uw.edu.pl/ Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology, 1, Warsaw zalaczniki/upload2127.pdf, accessed: 17.04.2019). 8 INTRODUCTION De Gregorio considers the find a possible local interpre- Alessandra Saggio proposes an innovative approach tation of the Cycladic model and stresses that this kind to the study of Cypriot gaming stones in her article of evidence could be especially helpful in reconstruct- ‘ The Rules of the Game. Cypriot Bronze Age Gaming ing the place of Ayia Triada in the interregional contacts Stones: Their ‘ Informative Perspective ’ about Social in the Late Prepalatial period. Practices ’. She analyses the various contexts of the finds Sarah Douglas and Giulia Muti, in their contri- in order to enhance the informative potential of the bution ‘A Case of Identity. Investigating the Symbolism objects. Saggio successfully uses