Editorial Note7
Maurizio Del Freo

Mycénien pa-we-a pe-ne-we-ta /pharweha phernewwenta/ : des textiles avec des pièces rapportées9-20
Alain Blanc

Drinking with Animals: Investigating Zoomorphic Decorations on Second-Millennium BCE Western Anatolian Pottery21-46
Ján Bobik, Tunç Kaner, Peter Pavúk, Christopher H. Roosevelt

Some Thoughts on the Genesis of Linear B47-76
Carlo Consani

The Greek Term κτοίνα between the Second and the First Millennium BC77-94
Maurizio Del Freo

The Ceramic Deposits at Anemospilia (Archanes): A Central Cretan Perspective95-116
Luca Girella

Three Knossos Livestock Records (C(4) 911, C(4) 912 and C(4) 917)117-124
John T. Killen

Some Further Thoughts on ku-ne and qo-we (MY Fu 711)125-132
John T. Killen

Built Environments, Funerary Landscapes, and Cultural Transitions on Kos:
The “Serraglio”, Eleona, and Langada during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages133-154
Francesca Nani, Salvatore Vitale, Calla McNamee

PY Vn 130 and Un 267 Explicated as Paired Records Pertaining to Scented Oil155-160
Thomas G. Palaima

Early Bronze Age Karkemish in Context: A View from Recent Investigations on the Acropolis Mound161-190
Sara Pizzimenti, Agnese Vacca

A New Look at the Late Minoan I(B) Administrative Horizon191-225
Ilse Schoep

Editorial note7
Anna Lucia D’Agata

From Marking to Writing? A Picrolite Inscribed Plaque from Erimi in Cyprus9-30
Luca Bombardieri, Yiannis Violaris, Demetrios A. Iosephides, Dante Abate, Thilo Rehren, Massimo Perna

A Feast Event at Misis Höyük: Building Activity, Communal Consumption and Ritual Practice in 8th Century BC Plain Cilicia 31-82
Anna Lucia D’Agata, Younes Naime, Renata Perego, Maria Perri

Deciphering Kober’s Contribution to the Decipherment of Linear B83-98
Brent Davis, Anthony Bronzo

‘Minoan’ or ‘Mycenaean’ Wine? Observations on an LM IIIA Inscribed Pithos from Knossos99-106
Maurizio Del Freo, Julien Zurbach, with a note by Kostas S. Christakis

A Pot-boiler at Pylos?107-114
John Killen

‘Heads’ of Thrones: Once More on Mycenaean se-re-mo-ka-ra-a-pi and se-re-mo-ka-ra-o-re115-136
Vassilis Petrakis

Une bague en or de Poros / Héracleion avec inscription en Linéaire A (PO Zf 2)7-16
Nota Dimopoulou, Jean-Pierre Olivier†

Tracing Mobility in Southeast Aegean/Southwest Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age 17-40
Antonis Kourkoulakos

Between Frustration and Progress: An Integrated Cypro-Minoan Signary and Its Paleographic Diversity 41-62
Martina Polig, Cassandra M. Donnelly

Storage and Cooking Ware from the Middle Minoan Settlement at Apodoulou, Crete: A Typological Assessment63-104
Ioanna Venieri

1922-2022: ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER MICHAEL VENTRIS’S BIRTH: A LETTER FROM SINCLAIR HOOD TO TREVOR BRYCE ON THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B

Preface105-106
Anna Lucia D’Agata

An Introduction107-110
Trevor Bryce

The Letter from Sinclair Hood to Trevor Bryce of 30th May 2012 and Skepticism about the Validity of the Ventris Decipherment of Linear B First Announced 18th June 1952111-138
Thomas G. Palaima

Was there a Rejection of Ventris’ Decipherment in 1950s and 1960s Oxford?139-140
Ewen Bowie

| Significant Objects and the Biographical Approach: An Inscribed Handle from Misis in Cilicia7-26
Anna Lucia D’Agata, Valentina Cannavò, Massimo Perna, Daniele Putortì

| The Swastika Motif in the Central Mediterranean during the Early Bronze Age27-48
Sara Marino

| Distribution and Functions of Minoan Inscribed Clay Vessels and the Consequences for the Question of Literacy in the Bronze Age Aegean 49-66
Barbara Montecchi

| Pylos Ta 716 and Mycenaean Ritual Paraphernalia: A Reconsideration67-96
Thomas G. Palaima, Nicholas G. Blackwell

| Tableware from the Middle Minoan Settlement at Apodoulou, Crete: A Typological Assessment97-132
Ioanna Venieri

| Orientalizing Architecture: Prinias, ‘Ain Dārā and Hittite Echoes in Greek Architectural Sculpture133-164
Serdar Yalçın

| The Use and Misuse of the Ahhiyawa Texts7-22
Oliver Dickinson

| Some Considerations on the Connections between Western Peloponnese and Cyprus in the Mycenaean Period23-46
Giampaolo Graziadio

| Speaking Pictures, Writing Words: On the Interplay of Communication in Ancient Mesopotamia46-58
Davide Nadali

| How to Bewitch Someone: Bewitching Techniques According to Incantations in the Hittite and Luwian Ritual Texts59-70
Laura Puértolas Rubio

| Non-Connective Behaviour of the Particle –que in the Linear B Documents from Pylos71-84
Ester Salgarella

POLITICAL BOUNDARIES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS DURING THE IRON AGE IN SOUTH-EAST ANATOLIA:
CILICIA, AMUQ AND THE KARA SU VALLEY

| Misis (ancient Mopsouestia) and the Plain of Cilicia in the Early First Millennium BC: Material Entanglements, Cultural Boundaries, and Local Identities87-110
Anna Lucia D’Agata

| Hybridity of Style: Iron Age Pottery from Sirkeli Höyük111-146
Sabine Kulemann-Ossen, Hanna Mönninghoff

| The Iron Age Sequence in the Amuq147-164
Marina Pucci

| The Iron Age Pottery of Zincirli Höyük: An Assemblage Among Neighbouring Traditions165-184
Sebastiano Soldi

| Inaugurating the Court-Centred Building? A MM IIIB Feasting Deposit at Neopalatial Sissi, North-Central Crete7-40
Ilaria Caloi

| How Difficult? Mountain Roads and Pathways Reaching Ancient Melid (Malatya) in South-Eastern Anatolia: A Reconsideration41-62
Francesco Di Filippo, Lucia Mori

| Holocene Fault Scarps at Mycenae (Greece) and Possible Cultural Ties63-74
Eric R. Force, Jeremy B. Rutter

| Nominative Case and Brachylogic Syntax in Mycenaean Texts75-94
José Miguel Jiménez Delgado

| The ‘Administered’ System of Trans-Mediterranean Maritime Relations at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC: Apogee and Collapse95-110
Massimiliano Marazzi

| Syllabogram *65 or Logogram *129 (= FAR)? The Sign AB 65/129 on Thebes Tablets, AB 65 in Linear A, and Some Remarks on the O-Stem Genitive Singular in -Xo111-130
Rachele Pierini

| The Dossier sa-ra-pe-da of Pylos Revisited131-142
Juan Piquero Rodríguez

| Linguistic Awareness in the Development of the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Sign Values143-160
Miguel Valério

| Eating Molluscs at Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy), 1700 BC161-190
Massimo Vidale, Sara T. Levi, Marco Bettelli, Andrea Di Renzoni, Matteo Bettuzzi, Valentina Cannavò, Franco Casali, Francesca Ferranti, Leandro Lopes, Maria Pia Morigi, Carmelo Triolo, Mario Triolo

| FORUM ARTICLE

The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa: A Hittite Perspective191-196
Trevor Bryce

Reaction to Bryce Article, by Eric Cline197-199

The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa: Facts, Factoids and Probabilities, by Jorrit M. Kelder200-207

An Aegean Archaeologist’s Response to “The Kingdom Of Ahhiyawa: A Hittite Perspective”, by Jeremy B. Rutter208-213

Response to “The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa: A Hittite Perspective”, by Robert Schon214-216

Hittite-Ahhiyawan Politics as Seen from the Tablets: A Reaction to Trevor Bryce’s Article from a Hittitological Perspective, by Mark Weeden217-227

Postscript, by Anna Lucia D’Agata228-230

| Repair, Recycle or Modify? The Response to Damage and/or Obsolescence in Mycenaean Metal Vessels and Its Implications for Understanding Metal Recycling7-26
Stephanie Aulsebrook

| Working Tools, Toilet Implements and Personal Adornments in Weapons Burials at Early Iron Age at Athens and Lefkandi27-52
Anna Maria D’Onofrio

| The Mystery of the Mycenaean “Labyrinth”: The Value of Linear B pu₂ and Related Signs53-72
Anna P. Judson

| A Fragmentary Libation Table with Inscription in Linear A from Petsopha, Palaikastro (Pk Za 27)73-82
Carl Knappett, Maurizio Del Freo, Julien Zurbach

| A Lost Mycenaean Fresco Fragment Re-Examined83-104
Yannis Galanakis, Emily Catherine Egan

| Out of Date, Out of Fashion: The Change of Dress of Aegean Figures in the Egyptian 18th Dynasty Theban Tombs in the light of Aegean Bronze Age Costume105-130
Uroš Matić, Filip Franković

| LM III Mortuary Practices in West Crete: The Cemeteries of Maroulas and Armenoi near Rethymnon131-157
Eleni Papadopoulou