AEGIS

Contents

Foreword ;

The value of digital recordings and reconstructions for the understanding of three-dimensional archaeological features (Constantinos Papadopoulos) ;

The contribution of systematic zooarchaeological analysis in understanding the complexity of prehistoric societies: The example of late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis-Koiladas in northern Greece (Vasiliki Tzevelekidi) ;

The Heraion of Samos under the microscope: A preliminary technological and provenance assessment of the Early Bronze Age II late to III (c. 2500–2000 BC) pottery (Sergios Menelaou) ;

Time past and time present: the emergence of the Minoan palaces as a transformation of temporality (Giorgos Vavouranakis) ;

Palaepaphos during the Late Bronze Age: characterizing the urban landscape of a late Cypriot polity (Artemis Georgiou) ;

‘What would the world be to us if the children were no more?’: the archaeology of children and death in LH IIIC Greece (Chrysanthi Gallou-Minopetrou) ;

The Late Helladic IIIC period in coastal Thessaly (Eleni Karouzou) ;

The Bronze Age on Karpathos and Kythera (Mercourios Georgiadis) ;

East Phokis revisited: its development in the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the light of the latest finds (Antonia Livieratou) ;

Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper (Vana Orfanou) ;

Representations of western Phoenician eschatology: funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life (Eleftheria Pappa) ;

Piraeus: beyond ‘known unknowns’ (Florentia Fragkopoulou) ;

The casting technique of the bronze Antikythera ephebe (Kosmas Dafas) ;

A brief, phenomenological reading of the Arkteia (Chryssanthi Papadopoulou) ;

Cylindrical altars and post-funerary ritual in the south-eastern Aegean during the Hellenistic period: 3rd to 2nd centuries BC (Vasiliki Brouma) ;

Lamps, symbolism and ritual in Hellenistic Greece (Nikolas Dimakis) ;

In search of the garden-peristyle in Hellenistic palaces: a reappraisal of the evidence (Maria Kopsacheili) ;

Damophon in Olympia: some remarks on his date (Eleni Poimenidou) ;

Entering the monastic cell in the Byzantine world: archaeology and texts (Giorgos Makris) ;

Discovering the Byzantine countryside: the evidence from archaeological field survey in the Peloponnese (Maria Papadaki) ;

On a Fāṭimid Kursī in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai (George Manginis) ;

The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day (Anastasia Leriou) ;

Showcasing new Trojan wars: archaeological exhibitions and the politics of appropriation of ancient Troy (Antonis Kotsonas)