Judith Weingarten
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Weingarten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Weingarten |
| SIGNATURE | WEINGARTEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos–pyrgos, Crete
The Minoan settlement of Myrtos–Pyrgos on the south coast of Crete has produced five seals (and one unfinished seal), 11 seal impressions on clay vessels, two roundels and one nodulus, as well as two Linear A tablets and two inscriptions on clay vessels. Dating between Early Minoan II and Late Minoan IB, these documents form valuable evidence for the development of sealing, marking and writing practices at a small but important rural settlement, …
Minoan Seals and Sealings
More than any other ancient work of art, seals are intimate objects which are literally bound to their owners. In ancient societies, their primary purpose was to secure property—whether in the home or the public arena—and to assign responsibility by means of clay sealings impressed by a specific individual who is identified by the seal's impression. The study of Minoan seals began even before the discovery of Minoan civilization. Long before arch…
ABook Review of Arslantepe Cretulae
Volume 5 of nine planned volumes in the Arslantepe series is a magnificent book. It describes in immense detail the thousands of meticulously excavated cretulae found in the late fourth-millennium palatial complex at Arslantepe (level VI A = Late Chalcolithic 5), southeastern Turkey. Given the wealth of evidence, there seems to be material for decades more of research. First, the cretulae of the book’s title is Latin for “sealings” (Cic. Verr. 4.…
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess
Another Look at Lerna
The Early Helladic IIB sealings from Lerna have rarely been considered as functional documents even though they are often called as evidence for EH II economic complexity, for elite control of resources or even for ‘central place’ redistribution. Close analysis of the sealings, however, casts doubt on whether the documents support these economic or social interpretations, seeming rather to point to the grafting of a foreign system of resource man…
Seal-use and administration In the South-west Basement area at Knossos
New soundings in the area of the Room of the Clay Signet provide a terminus post quem of LM II for the sealings and clay signet fallen into the SW Basement Area of the palace of Knossos. Based on this chronological datum, the sphragistic documents are reviewed together with the Linear B tablets with which they fell, in an attempt to reconstruct the administrative activity carried out in the rooms above the SW Basement. We pinpoint an unexpected b…
The Five Roundels from Malia, with a Note on Two New Minoan Genii
This paper discusses five MM III(B?) roundels from Malia, four of which display unusual inscriptions and/or sealing procédures, and considers what thèse variations imply for administration in the early neopalatial period. We also publish two roundels' seal impressions each depicting a Minoan Genius at a hitherto unknown stage in the demon's iconographical development
The Multiple Sealing System of Minoan Crete and Its Possible Antecedents in Anatolia
The Multiple Sealing System ( MSS ) is defined as the habitual stamping of regular combinations of two or three different seal impressions on clay nodules ( bullae ). This system was thought to be peculiar to LM IB Zakro, where it is indeed most fully developed, but a Minoan MSS can now be traced back ‐ via MM IIIB Knossos ‐ to the earliest administrative use of sealings on Crete, at MM IIB Phaistos. This early MSS at Phaistos has close links wit…
An unpublished inscribed roundel from Knossos (KH Wc 48; HM 1626)
Among the clay sealings from Knossos stored in the Heraklion Museum was found, in 1990, a hitherto unnoted roundel inscribed on both sides with signs in Linear A. The only completely preserved sign, AB 04 (TE), may perhaps represent an ideogram, while the motif on the two incompletely preserved seal impressions of a goat-monster seems to represent a development of the Minoan Genius not previously noted. The exact provenance is unknown. The sugges…
The Sealing Structures of Minoan Crete
Middle Minoan Knossos shares in the sealing evolution which we have seen elsewhere on the island (SSMC I): the earliest sealings are placed directly on objects, a practice which, in time, generally yields to nodules which hang on cords (first crescents, then prismatic types) and flat‐based nodules which were pressed over leather strips, presumably parchment documents. We have no LM IB sealings from Knossos, a site which might have been expected t…
A Roundel from Knossos(?) in the Ashmolean Museum
A completely preserved roundel in the Ashmolean Museum is described. It is argued that it probably comes from Evans's 1901–4 excavations in the area of the Temple Repository at Knossos
The Sealing Structures of Minoan Crete
The thousands of MM clay sealings in Room 25 of the First Palace of Phaistos testify to the importation into Crete of the Near Eastern system of storeroom administrative controls. Minoan practice then diverged from the Near Eastern model. The development of a recognizably Minoan sealing system is illustrated by the LM IB sealing deposits from Ayia Triada, Zakro and Khania (with something of its evolution traceable via Mallia and Knossos). Despite…
Another Look at Lerna
The Early Helladic IIB sealings from Lerna have rarely been considered as functional documents even though they are often called as evidence for EH II economic complexity, for elite control of resources or even for ‘central place’ redistribution. Close analysis of the sealings, however, casts doubt on whether the documents support these economic or social interpretations, seeming rather to point to the grafting of a foreign system of resource man…
The Sealing Structures of Minoan Crete
The thousands of MM clay sealings in Room 25 of the First Palace of Phaistos testify to the importation into Crete of the Near Eastern system of storeroom administrative controls. Minoan practice then diverged from the Near Eastern model. The development of a recognizably Minoan sealing system is illustrated by the LM IB sealing deposits from Ayia Triada, Zakro and Khania (with something of its evolution traceable via Mallia and Knossos). Despite…
The Five Roundels from Malia, with a Note on Two New Minoan Genii
This paper discusses five MM III(B?) roundels from Malia, four of which display unusual inscriptions and/or sealing procédures, and considers what thèse variations imply for administration in the early neopalatial period. We also publish two roundels' seal impressions each depicting a Minoan Genius at a hitherto unknown stage in the demon's iconographical development
The Multiple Sealing System of Minoan Crete and Its Possible Antecedents in Anatolia
The Multiple Sealing System ( MSS ) is defined as the habitual stamping of regular combinations of two or three different seal impressions on clay nodules ( bullae ). This system was thought to be peculiar to LM IB Zakro, where it is indeed most fully developed, but a Minoan MSS can now be traced back ‐ via MM IIIB Knossos ‐ to the earliest administrative use of sealings on Crete, at MM IIB Phaistos. This early MSS at Phaistos has close links wit…
The Sealing Structures of Minoan Crete
The thousands of MM clay sealings in Room 25 of the First Palace of Phaistos testify to the importation into Crete of the Near Eastern system of storeroom administrative controls. Minoan practice then diverged from the Near Eastern model. The development of a recognizably Minoan sealing system is illustrated by the LM IB sealing deposits from Ayia Triada, Zakro and Khania (with something of its evolution traceable via Mallia and Knossos). Despite…
A Roundel from Knossos(?) in the Ashmolean Museum
A completely preserved roundel in the Ashmolean Museum is described. It is argued that it probably comes from Evans's 1901–4 excavations in the area of the Temple Repository at Knossos
The Sealing Structures of Minoan Crete
Middle Minoan Knossos shares in the sealing evolution which we have seen elsewhere on the island (SSMC I): the earliest sealings are placed directly on objects, a practice which, in time, generally yields to nodules which hang on cords (first crescents, then prismatic types) and flat‐based nodules which were pressed over leather strips, presumably parchment documents. We have no LM IB sealings from Knossos, a site which might have been expected t…
The Multiple Sealing System of Minoan Crete and Its Possible Antecedents in Anatolia
The Multiple Sealing System ( MSS ) is defined as the habitual stamping of regular combinations of two or three different seal impressions on clay nodules ( bullae ). This system was thought to be peculiar to LM IB Zakro, where it is indeed most fully developed, but a Minoan MSS can now be traced back ‐ via MM IIIB Knossos ‐ to the earliest administrative use of sealings on Crete, at MM IIB Phaistos. This early MSS at Phaistos has close links wit…
An unpublished inscribed roundel from Knossos (KH Wc 48; HM 1626)
Among the clay sealings from Knossos stored in the Heraklion Museum was found, in 1990, a hitherto unnoted roundel inscribed on both sides with signs in Linear A. The only completely preserved sign, AB 04 (TE), may perhaps represent an ideogram, while the motif on the two incompletely preserved seal impressions of a goat-monster seems to represent a development of the Minoan Genius not previously noted. The exact provenance is unknown. The sugges…
The Five Roundels from Malia, with a Note on Two New Minoan Genii
This paper discusses five MM III(B?) roundels from Malia, four of which display unusual inscriptions and/or sealing procédures, and considers what thèse variations imply for administration in the early neopalatial period. We also publish two roundels' seal impressions each depicting a Minoan Genius at a hitherto unknown stage in the demon's iconographical development
Seal-use and administration In the South-west Basement area at Knossos
New soundings in the area of the Room of the Clay Signet provide a terminus post quem of LM II for the sealings and clay signet fallen into the SW Basement Area of the palace of Knossos. Based on this chronological datum, the sphragistic documents are reviewed together with the Linear B tablets with which they fell, in an attempt to reconstruct the administrative activity carried out in the rooms above the SW Basement. We pinpoint an unexpected b…
Another Look at Lerna
The Early Helladic IIB sealings from Lerna have rarely been considered as functional documents even though they are often called as evidence for EH II economic complexity, for elite control of resources or even for ‘central place’ redistribution. Close analysis of the sealings, however, casts doubt on whether the documents support these economic or social interpretations, seeming rather to point to the grafting of a foreign system of resource man…
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess
ABook Review of Arslantepe Cretulae
Volume 5 of nine planned volumes in the Arslantepe series is a magnificent book. It describes in immense detail the thousands of meticulously excavated cretulae found in the late fourth-millennium palatial complex at Arslantepe (level VI A = Late Chalcolithic 5), southeastern Turkey. Given the wealth of evidence, there seems to be material for decades more of research. First, the cretulae of the book’s title is Latin for “sealings” (Cic. Verr. 4.…
Minoan Seals and Sealings
More than any other ancient work of art, seals are intimate objects which are literally bound to their owners. In ancient societies, their primary purpose was to secure property—whether in the home or the public arena—and to assign responsibility by means of clay sealings impressed by a specific individual who is identified by the seal's impression. The study of Minoan seals began even before the discovery of Minoan civilization. Long before arch…
Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos–pyrgos, Crete
The Minoan settlement of Myrtos–Pyrgos on the south coast of Crete has produced five seals (and one unfinished seal), 11 seal impressions on clay vessels, two roundels and one nodulus, as well as two Linear A tablets and two inscriptions on clay vessels. Dating between Early Minoan II and Late Minoan IB, these documents form valuable evidence for the development of sealing, marking and writing practices at a small but important rural settlement, …
History (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · Ancient Near East History (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Law, logistics, and international trade (5 works) · Seal (emblem (4 works)