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1. INTRODUCTION
Carol THOMAS and Michael WEDDE
Desperately Seeking Potnia
3
Katerina KOPAKA
A Day in Potnia’s Life. Aspects of Potnia and Reflected “Mistress” Activities
in the Agean Bronze Age
15
2. SANCTUARIES
Krzysztof NOWICKI
Minoan Peak Sanctuaries: Reassessing their Origins
31
Loeta TYREE
Diachronic Changes in Minoan Cave Cult
39
Alan PEATFIELD
Divinity and Performance on Minoan Peak Sanctuaries
51
Stella CHRYSSOULAKI
The Traostalos Peak Sanctuary: Aspects of Spatial Organisation
57
3. CULT PLACES
Veit STÜRMER
‘Naturkulträume’ auf Kreta und Thera: Ausstattung, Definition und Funktion
69
Lucy GOODISON
From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Perceptions of the Sun in Minoan Ritual
77
Daniela LEFÈVRE-NOVARO
Un nouvel examen des modèles réduits trouvés dans la grande tombe de Kamilari
89
Metaxia TSIPOPOULOU
A New Late Minoan IIIC Shrine at Halasmenos, East Crete
99
Maria HIELTE-STAVROPOULOU
The Horseshoe-Shaped and Other Structures and Installations for Performing Rituals
in Funeral Contexts in Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Times
103
Joseph MARAN
Political and Religious Aspects of Architectural Change on the Upper Citadel of Tiryns.
The Case of Building T
113
Evangelos KYRIAKIDIS
The Economics of Potnia: Storage in ‘Temples’ of Prehistoric Greece
123
Gabriele ALBERS
Rethinking Mycenaean Sanctuaries
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4. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
Philip P. BETANCOURT
The Household Shrine in the House of the Rhyta at Pseira
145
Athanasia KANTA and Anastasia TZIGOUNAKI
The Character of the Minoan Goddess. New Evidence from the Area of Amari
151
Pietro MILITELLO
Archeologia, iconografia e culti ad Haghia Triada in età TM I
159
Nicola CUCUZZA
Religion and Architecture: Early LM IIIA2 Buildings in the Southern Area
of Haghia Triada
169
Erik HALLAGER
A Waste Deposit from a LBA-Shrine in Khania (?)
175
Katie DEMAKOPOULOU and Nicoletta DIVARI-VALAKOU
Evidence for Cult Practice at Midea: Figures, Figurines and Ritual Objects
181
Rainer FELSCH
Opferhandlungen des Alltagslebens im Heiligtum der Artemis Elaphebolos von Hyampolis
in den Phasen SH IIIC - Spätgeometrisch
193
Birgitta EDER
Continuity of Bronze Age Cult at Olympia? The Evidence of the Late Bronze Age
and Early Iron Age Pottery
201
5. CULT PRACTICE
Eleni KONSOLAKI-YANNOPOULOU
New Evidence for the Practice of Libations in the Aegean Bronze Age
213
Vincenzo LA ROSA
Minoan Baetyls: Between Funerary Rituals and Epiphanies
221
Jeffrey SOLES
Reverence for Dead Ancestors in Prehistoric Crete
229
Robert KOEHL
The ‘Sacred Marriage’ in Minoan Religion and Ritual
237
Christine MORRIS
The Language of Gesture in Minoan Religion
245
Geraldine GESELL
The Function of the Plaque in the Shrines of the Goddess with Up-Raised Hands
253
Bernice JONES
The Minoan “Snake Goddess.” New Interpretations of her Costume and Identity
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6. ARTS AND CRAFTS
Elsa PAPATSAROUCHA
Le sanctuaire représenté en fragments : un aspect de l’iconographie talismanique
269
Elizabeth FRENCH
The Mycenae Figures
275
Sylvie MÜLLER-CELKA
Les personnages féminins des perles mycéniennes en verre bleu
277
7. ANIMALS AND CULT
Stefan HILLER
Potnia/Potnios Aigon. On the Religious Aspects of Goats in the Aegean Late Bronze Age
293
Dimitra ROUSIOTI
Did the Mycenaeans Believe in Theriomorphic Divinities?
305
Birgitta P. HALLAGER
The Ram in Cutlic Contexts?
315
8. CONTEXT
Vassos KARAGEORGHIS
The Great Goddess of Cyprus Between the Aegeans and the “Eteocypriots”
323
Assaf YASUR-LANDAU
The Mother(s) of all Philistines? Aegean Enthroned Deities of the 12th-11th Century Philistia
329
Anna Lucia D’AGATA
Religion, Society and Ethnicity on Crete at the End of the Late Bronze Age.
The Contextual Framework of LM IIIC Cult Activities
345
Helène WHITTAKER
Reflections on the Socio-Political Function of Mycenaean Religion
355
Jan DRIESSEN
Crisis Cults on Minoan Crete?
361
9. ICONOGRAPHY
Alison BARCLAY
The Potnia Theron: Adaptation of a Near Eastern Image
373
Robert LAFFINEUR
Seeing is Believing: Reflections on Divine Imagery in the Aegean Bronze Age
387
Eva RYSTEDT
A New (Old) Mycenaean Scene of Worship
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10. WRITTEN SOURCES
Cécile BOËLLE
Po-ti-ni-ja : unité ou pluralité ?
403
Catherine TRÜMPY
Potnia dans les tablettes mycéniennes : quelques problèmes d’interprétation
411
Sarah MORRIS
Potnia Aswiya: Anatolian Contributions to Greek Religion
423
John KILLEN
Religion at Pylos: The Evidence of the Fn Tablets
435
Lisa BENDALL
The Economics of Potnia in the Linear B Documents:
Palatial Support for Mycenaean Religion
445
Joan GULIZIO, Kevin PLUTA and Thomas G. PALAIMA
Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets
453
Louis GODART
La Terre Mère et le monde égéen
463
Anna SACCONI
Les repas sacrés dans les textes mycéniens
467
Marie Louise NOSCH and Massimo PERNA
Cloth in the Cult
471
Peter HAIDER
Minoan Deities in an Egyptian Medical Text
479
AFTERTHOUGHT
Thomas G. PALAIMA
A Linear-B-Inscribed ‘Herring’ from Göteborg: An Ichthyomorphic Epiphany
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