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The Mycenaean collection of ivory combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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The Mycenaean collection of ivory combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens / Yannis Sakellarakis, Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi.

Author

Sakellarakēs, Giannēs

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Leuven : Peeters, 2022.
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xiii, 63 pages, lxxxix pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm.

Summary

Ivory combs of the Late Bronze Age Aegean have not gained the proper attention so far, despite the fact that they belong, together with the pins and pyxis fashioned by the same material, to prestigious toiletry sets documented in the wider area of the Eastern Mediterranean. Although they never became an indispensable accessory for the Mycenaeans, ivory combs indicate prosperity and high status for the male and female burials they furnished, from the exquisite gold-sheathed specimens of Grave Circle A at Mycenae to the later simple ones of the warrior burials in Achaea. The corpus of the 83 Mycenaean combs held at the National Archaeological Museum is the largest of the kind, with specimens covering almost all the Peloponnese and part of Attica, ranging in date from Late Helladic I to Late Helladic IIIC. Aspects of their technology, typology, iconography, context and social significance discussed in the volume, are expected to shed light on yet another important class of Mycenaean craftmanship.

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Aegaeum ; 46

Uniform Title

Aegaeum ; 46.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-xiii).

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British Library not licensed to copy

Call Number

JFF 22-773

ISBN

9789042948907
9042948906

LCCN

9789042948907

OCLC

1321950906

Author

Sakellarakēs, Giannēs, author.

Title

The Mycenaean collection of ivory combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens / Yannis Sakellarakis, Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2022.

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unmediated

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Series

Aegaeum ; 46

Aegaeum ; 46.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-xiii).

Terms Of Use

British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk

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Kōnstantinidē-Syvridē, Helenē author.

Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)

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e-book version 9789042948914

Other Standard Identifier

9789042948907

Research Call Number

JFF 22-773

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