This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between ‘science-based’ and ‘humanities-based’ approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the second mainly written communication, and the third blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include use of color in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; a reinterpretation of the ‘Harvester Vase’ from Ayia Triada; re-readings of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae, of Aegean representations of warfare, and of how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; and the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth. Topics in the second group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B. In the third group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices; and concludes with a further exploration of the color palette used at Pylos.Table of ContentsList of contributorsIntroductionJohn Bennet1. Image, Context and Peak Sanctuaries, Tripartite Buildings and the Palace at KnossosMatthew Haysom and t2. Representations of Palatial Staple Finance in the Late Bronze Age Southern the ‘Harvester Vase’ from Agia Triadha and the Gold Sheet with Relief Procession from PeristeriaPaul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou3. Re-presenting in Colours at the ‘Palace of Nestor’: Original Polychromy and Painting MaterialsHariclia Brecoulaki, Andreas G. Karydas, Vassilis Perdikatsis and Maria P. Colombini4. Representation and Hidden TechnologiesSue Sherratt5. Materialising Images of Violence and their Media as Status Symbols in the Late Bronze Age AegeanAngelos Papadopoulos6. the Depiction of Martial Culture at LH IIIB MycenaeKate Harrell7. The Colourless Some Thoughts on the Mycenaean Colour Palette and the Art of Pylian DiplomacyMark S. Peters8. ‘Representations of Time’ in Linear B Documents from Knossos and PylosAngeliki Karagianni9. Representing People Through Taste and Social Status and Sensory Experiences in a Mycenaean Palatial Feasting ContextRachel Fox10. Icon, Index, Language Notation in the Cretan Hieroglyphic ScriptSilvia Ferrara11. ‘Picture-Writing’ and Phoneticism after  Scripta Minoa  IArtemis Karnava12. Minoan Seal-Use and from a Functionalist to a more Social ApproachIlse Schoep13. Redefining Writing in the Bronze Age AegeanSarah Finlayson14. Mycenaean Scribes and LiteracyCynthia W. Shelmerdine15. Mycenaean Scribes and Mycenaean Interpreting Linguistic Variation in the Linear B DocumentsRupert Thompson16. Arthur Evans and Linear his Efforts towards an Understanding of the ScriptJorg Weilhartner

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