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MYCENAE REVISITED PART 4: ASSESSING THE NEW DATA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2012

O.T.P.K. Dickinson ,
Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki ,
Argyro Nafplioti  and
A.J.N.W. Prag
O.T.P.K. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki
Affiliation:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Argyro Nafplioti
Affiliation:
British School at Athens
A.J.N.W. Prag*
Affiliation:
The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
*
john.prag@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

This is the fourth and final part of the series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis. The contribution of Stamatakis to the excavations, the discrepancies between his unpublished reports to the Archaeological Society and Schliemann's account, and the reliability of that account, are discussed. This is followed by a survey of what can now be said about Grave Circle A, following the restudy of the surviving bones from Graves III–VI and the publication of various details of the arrangement in the graves reported by Stamatakis, and by a final somewhat speculative discussion of what the graves contribute to the study of the development of Mycenae at the time of its rapid rise to prominence and the accompanying major changes in the structure of society, at Mycenae and elsewhere on the Greek mainland.

Μυκηνών επανεξέταση Μέρος 4

Το παρόν είναι το τέταρτο και τελευταίο μια σειράς άρθρων εμπνευσμένων από την εκ νέου ανακάλυψη, το 2003, δύο σκελετών που ανέσκαψε ο Παναγιώτης Σταματάκης το 1877 στο λακκοειδή Τάφο VI του Ταφικού Κύκλου Α των Μυκηνών.Συζητώνται η συνεισφορά του Σταματάκη στην ανασκαφική έρευνα, οι ασυμφωνίες μεταξύ των αδημοσίευτων αναφορών του προς την Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία και των όσων αναφέρει ο Schliemann, και η αξιοπιστία των τελευταίων.Τη συζήτηση αυτή ακολουθεί μια επισκόπηση των νέων στοιχείων για τον Ταφικό Κύκλο Α, μετά την επανεξέταση των σωζόμενων οστών από τους Τάφους ΙΙΙ-VI και τη δημοσίευση λεπτομερών πληροφορίων από τις αναφορές του Σταματάκη για τη διάταξη των ευρημάτων στο εσωτερικό των τάφων. Ακολουθεί μια θεωρητική, τρόπον τινά, συζήτηση της συμβολής που έχουν τα συμπεράσματα για τον Ταφικό Κύκλο Α στη μελέτη της ανάπτυξης των Μυκηνών κατά την περίοδο της ταχείας ανόδου τους σε προεξάρχουσα θέση και των συνακόλουθων μείζονων αλλαγών στη δομή της κοινωνίας, στις Μυκήνες και αλλού στην ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 107 , November 2012 , pp. 161 - 188
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 2012

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