Sinclair Hood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinclair Hood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sinclair |
| FAMILY NAME | Hood |
| SIGNATURE | HOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Group of Middle and Late Minoan Tombs South of the Palace at Knossos
This publication presents the results of the excavation in 1960 of a group of Minoan tombs on the lower slopes of Ailias, on the east side of the River Kairatos, in an area almost opposite the Temple Tomb at Knossos. One or two of these tombs were built in Middle Minoan times. Tomb I was used again for four burials in Late Minoan II–IIIA, the period when the other three tombs (II–IV) appear to have been exclusively used. The publication presents …
Minoan Town-Shrines
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
Excavations of 1987 on the south front of the palace at Knossos
This report describes the excavation of two pits which had been dug into the natural rock, apparently in connection with the storage and perhaps original manufacture of plaster, in the space named after them the ‘Room of the Plaster Pits’. The pits were filled and covered in LM II, and the evidence for their date helps to bring the history of this part of the palace into clearer focus. The Room of the Plaster Pits may be the same as the elusive L…
Knossos
Various soundings were made into Minoan Bronze Age deposits in the Palace area in 1969, 1973, and 1987. These include work on the South Front (H.I.6), described here
An Early British Interest in Knossos
Four letters written in 1879, 1880, and 1884, by Thomas B. Sandwith, the British Consul in Crete, to the British Museum throw light on the early history of the site of the Bronze Age palace at Knossos. The first of these letters (1879) contains a brief eyewitness account of the excavations of Minos Kalokairinos there in the winter of 1878–9 and urges the British Museum to continue his work. The two later letters (1884) deal with his gift of a pit…
The Ashmolean Shell Plaque (AM 1938.537)
This shell applique in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford was acquired by Evans in Crete in 1894. He was told that it came from the Mesara, but there is no evidence to link it with the Ayios Onoufrios deposit. The material is Aegean Spondylus gaederopus L., not Tridacna from the Red Sea. The plaque is probably Cretan work of the period of the Early Palaces (Middle Minoan I–II), not Early Minoan or Archaic Greek as Evans at different times believed. I…
Pigs or Pulse? The Pens at Knossos
Roman Crete - I. F. Sanders
Roman Crete - I. F. Sanders: Roman Crete. An Archaeological Survey and Gazetteer of Late Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete. (Archaeologists Handbooks to the Roman World.) Pp. xiv + 185; 63 figures, 72 photoplates in text; folding map. Warminster, Wilts.: Aris & Phillips, 1982. Paper, £18. - Volume 33 Issue 1
Discrepancies in 14 C Dating as Illustrated From the Egyptian New and Middle Kingdoms and From the Aegean Bronze Age and Neolithic
An early oriental cylinder seal impression from Romania
What has been interpreted as the clay impression of an early Mesopotamian cylinder seal has been identified among material from nineteenth‐century excavations at the Neolithic site of Tordos in Transylvania (Romania). The cylinder which made the impression might in fact have been a wooden one of Syrian origin dating from the third millennium. The Tordos impression would fit into a picture of contacts between the Near East and the Balkans at the b…
The Minoans
The Minoans. The Story of Bronze Age Crete
Isles of Refuge in the Early Byzantine Period
Some years ago in an article offered in honour of my friend, Dr. Jírí Neustupný, I described three settlements on small off-shore islands round the coasts of South Greece, where some of the native population appear to have taken refuge during the period of the Slav invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. (Fig. 1). In August 1969, when I was in Galaxidhi on the west side of the bay of Itea, Mrs. Lois Ventris told me about a group of isle…
Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete
‘It is a singular fact regarding the eparkhia of Agios Vasiles, that throughout its whole extent not any ancient city has been discovered; and yet there can be no doubt that in one or two of the most populous of these valleys there must have been a town of more or less importance. To all my inquiries, however, in my two journeys through the greater part of the province, I could learn of no ruins or traditional site of any Hellenic city. ... Notwi…
Travels in Crete, 1962
These travels occupied us during four weeks of July and August 1962. Our initial intention was not to look for new sites, but to visit those already known, in order to revise the lists in Pendlebury's The Archaeology of Crete (1939). Crete has perhaps been more thoroughly explored than any other part of Greece. Pashley ( Travels in Crete (1837)) and Spratt ( Travels and Researches in Crete (1865)) identified many ancient Greek and Roman cities. A…
The Knossos Tablets
I do not see that Professor Palmer has any adequate grounds for his refusal to accept the definitive opinion of Evans and Mackenzie that the Linear B tablets found at Knossos were all of them-or the great bulk of them-from the ruins of the Palace and other buildings destroyed at the end of the Late Minoan II period about 1400 B.C.This opinion was based, not upon a few isolated 'facts' of the kind which Professor Palmer has, with commendable dilig…
The Date of the Linear B Tablets frome Knossos
In an article in the Observer for 3 July, and again in the Listener for 27 October, 1960, Professor L. R. Palmer argues that the Linear B inscribed clay tablets found at Knossos date not from the end of the I 5th century B.C. but from a time some two hundred years or so later. These tablets according to the excavator of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, belonged to the age of what he called the 'Last Palace', destroyed about 1400 B.C. But after the dest…
Italy and the United Nations
Journal Article Italy and the United Nations: Report of a Study Group set up by the Italian Society for International Organization Get access Italy and the United Nations: Report of a Study Group set up by the Italian Society for International Organization. Foreword by Giuseppe Sperduti. New York, Manhattan Publishing Co. for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1959. xiii+208 pp. Index. $3. S. C. Hood S. C. Hood Search for other works…
The Tombs
Tomb I (Plan, Fig. 2; Plate 49 b ). This was the original tomb whose collapse led to the discovery of the cemetery. It was also apparently the earliest in point of time, containing four clay vases ( 1–4 ) decorated in a fine style which may go back before the destruction of the Last Palace. The main chamber was more or less rectangular (L. 1·90, W. about 2·50), approached by a level dromos (L. 3·00, W. 0·85–90), on the left side of which was a wa…
A Minoan shaft-grave on the slopes opposite the Temple Tomb (Knossos Survey 152 )
The slopes of Ailias beyond the Kairatos stream to the east of the Minoan city have so far largely escaped the intensive vineyard cultivation that has swallowed so much of the land round Knossos. Isolated tombs and cemeteries (e.g. Knossos Survey 58, 95, 96 ) have been explored on these slopes due east and north of the Palace of Minos, but virtually nothing has yet been recorded from the area to the south. Minoan sherds on the surface of the fiel…
A Minoan shaft-grave in the bank with Hogarth's Tombs (Knossos Survey 16 )
What seemed to be the covering slabs of a tomb were noticed by the School's foreman, Manoli Markoyiannakis, exposed in the low field bank which forms the southern continuation of the high bank with the Geometric tombs dug by Hogarth and Payne, a couple of metres north of the path running eastwards across the base of the Kefala ridge past the Hellenic tower ( BSA 52 (1957) 244ff.). During the course of the School's excavation of the early Christia…
Sub-marine exploration in Crete, 1955
In 1955 it was decided to transfer the School's undersea activity from Chios to Crete during the time that excavations on land were being continued at Knossos. The Greek Ministry of Education most generously granted permission for the School to carry on diving operations at selected points off the coast of Crete in co-operation with the Ephor of Antiquities, Dr. Nicolas Platon. The campaign lasted three weeks, from August 9th to 30th, with a part…
Clay larnakes
Some sixteen clay coffins or larnakes of the well-known Late Minoan type with gabled lids were recovered from nine tombs (IV, VI, VII in the first group, all the tombs IX–XIV of the second, and XVI of the third). They were made of coarse gritty pithos fabric, with the surface orange, paler orange or buff, or greenish, due to wet-smoothing or the application of a thin slip. The chests were between 0·75 and 1·20 long, standing to a height of about …
Inventory of the vases and other Objects from the cemetery
I. 1. Rhyton (Fig. 26, Plate 54 c ). Ht. 0·364. Ht. incl. handle 0·405. Diam. at tip 0·104. Diam. of spout 0·02. Broken but complete; the paint is slightly worn and the rim chipped. The painting is in orange and brown, with linear decoration on the lower part of the cone and interlocking zigzags above. The lip and the outer edges of the handle are outlined. The handle is of the raised metallic type and the lip overhangs slightly; the tip of the s…
Excavations at Tabara el Akrad, 1948–49
Tell Tabara el Akrad lies about a twenty minute walk east of Atchana: to the north near the main road is Tell Akrad, and to the south the high conical Tell Saluq, now surmounted by a frontier post. In the Atchana season of Autumn 1948 I visited the site and brought back samples of a hand-made burnished pottery, which was recognised by Sir Leonard Woolley as quite different from anything found either at Atchana or at the neighbouring Chalcolithic …
Travels in Crete, 1962
These travels occupied us during four weeks of July and August 1962. Our initial intention was not to look for new sites, but to visit those already known, in order to revise the lists in Pendlebury's The Archaeology of Crete (1939). Crete has perhaps been more thoroughly explored than any other part of Greece. Pashley ( Travels in Crete (1837)) and Spratt ( Travels and Researches in Crete (1865)) identified many ancient Greek and Roman cities. A…
The Knossos Tablets
I do not see that Professor Palmer has any adequate grounds for his refusal to accept the definitive opinion of Evans and Mackenzie that the Linear B tablets found at Knossos were all of them-or the great bulk of them-from the ruins of the Palace and other buildings destroyed at the end of the Late Minoan II period about 1400 B.C.This opinion was based, not upon a few isolated 'facts' of the kind which Professor Palmer has, with commendable dilig…
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
The Ashmolean Shell Plaque (AM 1938.537)
This shell applique in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford was acquired by Evans in Crete in 1894. He was told that it came from the Mesara, but there is no evidence to link it with the Ayios Onoufrios deposit. The material is Aegean Spondylus gaederopus L., not Tridacna from the Red Sea. The plaque is probably Cretan work of the period of the Early Palaces (Middle Minoan I–II), not Early Minoan or Archaic Greek as Evans at different times believed. I…
Discrepancies in 14 C Dating as Illustrated From the Egyptian New and Middle Kingdoms and From the Aegean Bronze Age and Neolithic
An early oriental cylinder seal impression from Romania
What has been interpreted as the clay impression of an early Mesopotamian cylinder seal has been identified among material from nineteenth‐century excavations at the Neolithic site of Tordos in Transylvania (Romania). The cylinder which made the impression might in fact have been a wooden one of Syrian origin dating from the third millennium. The Tordos impression would fit into a picture of contacts between the Near East and the Balkans at the b…
The Minoans
Isles of Refuge in the Early Byzantine Period
Some years ago in an article offered in honour of my friend, Dr. Jírí Neustupný, I described three settlements on small off-shore islands round the coasts of South Greece, where some of the native population appear to have taken refuge during the period of the Slav invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. (Fig. 1). In August 1969, when I was in Galaxidhi on the west side of the bay of Itea, Mrs. Lois Ventris told me about a group of isle…
A Late Minoan III ‘kitchen’ at Makritikhos (Knossos) (Knossos Survey 90 )
In the summer of 1951 N. Dadoudis, while digging a deep trench to bury stones from a plot of land belonging to him on the east edge of Makritikhos village, about 250 metres north of the Palace of Minos, found a complete Minoan amphora (Plan, Fig. 5, no. 3 ). He reported this discovery to the Ephor of Antiquities for Crete, Dr. N. Platon, who invited Piet de Jong, then the School's Curator at Knossos, to examine the area. Excavation revealed a sma…
The Story of the Italian Resistance
Journal Article The Story of the Italian Resistance Get access The Story of the Italian Resistance. By Roberto Battaglia. Trans. and ed. by P. D. Cummins. Introduction by Bernard Wall. London, Odhams Press, 1958. 287 pp. Illus. Map. Index. 21s. S. C. Hood S. C. Hood Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1958, Page 538, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608045 Published: …
A Hellenic Fortification Tower on the Kefala Ridge at Knossos
In the course of a search for tombs in the Knossos area during the spring of 1951 I noticed some large blocks of limestone masonry with curved edges that had just been removed from a newly planted vineyard, the property of Georgios Kargatzes, near the top of the hill forming the southern end of the long ridge on the northern tip of which stands the Isopata Royal Tomb. The site is about 250 metres north-west of the Zafer Papoura cemetery of Late M…
Excavations at Tabara el Akrad, 1948–49
Tell Tabara el Akrad lies about a twenty minute walk east of Atchana: to the north near the main road is Tell Akrad, and to the south the high conical Tell Saluq, now surmounted by a frontier post. In the Atchana season of Autumn 1948 I visited the site and brought back samples of a hand-made burnished pottery, which was recognised by Sir Leonard Woolley as quite different from anything found either at Atchana or at the neighbouring Chalcolithic …
A new approach to studies on fungi
A Hellenic Fortification Tower on the Kefala Ridge at Knossos
In the course of a search for tombs in the Knossos area during the spring of 1951 I noticed some large blocks of limestone masonry with curved edges that had just been removed from a newly planted vineyard, the property of Georgios Kargatzes, near the top of the hill forming the southern end of the long ridge on the northern tip of which stands the Isopata Royal Tomb. The site is about 250 metres north-west of the Zafer Papoura cemetery of Late M…
The Story of the Italian Resistance
Journal Article The Story of the Italian Resistance Get access The Story of the Italian Resistance. By Roberto Battaglia. Trans. and ed. by P. D. Cummins. Introduction by Bernard Wall. London, Odhams Press, 1958. 287 pp. Illus. Map. Index. 21s. S. C. Hood S. C. Hood Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1958, Page 538, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608045 Published: …
The Tombs
Tomb I (Plan, Fig. 2; Plate 49 b ). This was the original tomb whose collapse led to the discovery of the cemetery. It was also apparently the earliest in point of time, containing four clay vases ( 1–4 ) decorated in a fine style which may go back before the destruction of the Last Palace. The main chamber was more or less rectangular (L. 1·90, W. about 2·50), approached by a level dromos (L. 3·00, W. 0·85–90), on the left side of which was a wa…
A Minoan shaft-grave on the slopes opposite the Temple Tomb (Knossos Survey 152 )
The slopes of Ailias beyond the Kairatos stream to the east of the Minoan city have so far largely escaped the intensive vineyard cultivation that has swallowed so much of the land round Knossos. Isolated tombs and cemeteries (e.g. Knossos Survey 58, 95, 96 ) have been explored on these slopes due east and north of the Palace of Minos, but virtually nothing has yet been recorded from the area to the south. Minoan sherds on the surface of the fiel…
A Minoan shaft-grave in the bank with Hogarth's Tombs (Knossos Survey 16 )
What seemed to be the covering slabs of a tomb were noticed by the School's foreman, Manoli Markoyiannakis, exposed in the low field bank which forms the southern continuation of the high bank with the Geometric tombs dug by Hogarth and Payne, a couple of metres north of the path running eastwards across the base of the Kefala ridge past the Hellenic tower ( BSA 52 (1957) 244ff.). During the course of the School's excavation of the early Christia…
Sub-marine exploration in Crete, 1955
In 1955 it was decided to transfer the School's undersea activity from Chios to Crete during the time that excavations on land were being continued at Knossos. The Greek Ministry of Education most generously granted permission for the School to carry on diving operations at selected points off the coast of Crete in co-operation with the Ephor of Antiquities, Dr. Nicolas Platon. The campaign lasted three weeks, from August 9th to 30th, with a part…
Clay larnakes
Some sixteen clay coffins or larnakes of the well-known Late Minoan type with gabled lids were recovered from nine tombs (IV, VI, VII in the first group, all the tombs IX–XIV of the second, and XVI of the third). They were made of coarse gritty pithos fabric, with the surface orange, paler orange or buff, or greenish, due to wet-smoothing or the application of a thin slip. The chests were between 0·75 and 1·20 long, standing to a height of about …
Inventory of the vases and other Objects from the cemetery
I. 1. Rhyton (Fig. 26, Plate 54 c ). Ht. 0·364. Ht. incl. handle 0·405. Diam. at tip 0·104. Diam. of spout 0·02. Broken but complete; the paint is slightly worn and the rim chipped. The painting is in orange and brown, with linear decoration on the lower part of the cone and interlocking zigzags above. The lip and the outer edges of the handle are outlined. The handle is of the raised metallic type and the lip overhangs slightly; the tip of the s…
A Late Minoan III ‘kitchen’ at Makritikhos (Knossos) (Knossos Survey 90 )
In the summer of 1951 N. Dadoudis, while digging a deep trench to bury stones from a plot of land belonging to him on the east edge of Makritikhos village, about 250 metres north of the Palace of Minos, found a complete Minoan amphora (Plan, Fig. 5, no. 3 ). He reported this discovery to the Ephor of Antiquities for Crete, Dr. N. Platon, who invited Piet de Jong, then the School's Curator at Knossos, to examine the area. Excavation revealed a sma…
The cemetery
The existence of Late Minoan tombs somewhere in this area was noted by Evans, and several of those found during our excavations had been partly destroyed or plundered. Nineteen tombs were discovered in all. One of them (XVIII) was a Middle Minoan tomb (see p. 220). The rest (with the possible exception of tomb VIII which was found empty, and which from its shape and character may be Middle Minoan) all belonged to the Late Minoan III period, from …
Italy and the United Nations
Journal Article Italy and the United Nations: Report of a Study Group set up by the Italian Society for International Organization Get access Italy and the United Nations: Report of a Study Group set up by the Italian Society for International Organization. Foreword by Giuseppe Sperduti. New York, Manhattan Publishing Co. for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1959. xiii+208 pp. Index. $3. S. C. Hood S. C. Hood Search for other works…
The Date of the Linear B Tablets frome Knossos
In an article in the Observer for 3 July, and again in the Listener for 27 October, 1960, Professor L. R. Palmer argues that the Linear B inscribed clay tablets found at Knossos date not from the end of the I 5th century B.C. but from a time some two hundred years or so later. These tablets according to the excavator of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, belonged to the age of what he called the 'Last Palace', destroyed about 1400 B.C. But after the dest…
The Knossos Tablets
I do not see that Professor Palmer has any adequate grounds for his refusal to accept the definitive opinion of Evans and Mackenzie that the Linear B tablets found at Knossos were all of them-or the great bulk of them-from the ruins of the Palace and other buildings destroyed at the end of the Late Minoan II period about 1400 B.C.This opinion was based, not upon a few isolated 'facts' of the kind which Professor Palmer has, with commendable dilig…
Travels in Crete, 1962
These travels occupied us during four weeks of July and August 1962. Our initial intention was not to look for new sites, but to visit those already known, in order to revise the lists in Pendlebury's The Archaeology of Crete (1939). Crete has perhaps been more thoroughly explored than any other part of Greece. Pashley ( Travels in Crete (1837)) and Spratt ( Travels and Researches in Crete (1865)) identified many ancient Greek and Roman cities. A…
Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete
‘It is a singular fact regarding the eparkhia of Agios Vasiles, that throughout its whole extent not any ancient city has been discovered; and yet there can be no doubt that in one or two of the most populous of these valleys there must have been a town of more or less importance. To all my inquiries, however, in my two journeys through the greater part of the province, I could learn of no ruins or traditional site of any Hellenic city. ... Notwi…
Isles of Refuge in the Early Byzantine Period
Some years ago in an article offered in honour of my friend, Dr. Jírí Neustupný, I described three settlements on small off-shore islands round the coasts of South Greece, where some of the native population appear to have taken refuge during the period of the Slav invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. (Fig. 1). In August 1969, when I was in Galaxidhi on the west side of the bay of Itea, Mrs. Lois Ventris told me about a group of isle…
The Minoans
The Minoans. The Story of Bronze Age Crete
An early oriental cylinder seal impression from Romania
What has been interpreted as the clay impression of an early Mesopotamian cylinder seal has been identified among material from nineteenth‐century excavations at the Neolithic site of Tordos in Transylvania (Romania). The cylinder which made the impression might in fact have been a wooden one of Syrian origin dating from the third millennium. The Tordos impression would fit into a picture of contacts between the Near East and the Balkans at the b…
Discrepancies in 14 C Dating as Illustrated From the Egyptian New and Middle Kingdoms and From the Aegean Bronze Age and Neolithic
Roman Crete - I. F. Sanders
Roman Crete - I. F. Sanders: Roman Crete. An Archaeological Survey and Gazetteer of Late Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete. (Archaeologists Handbooks to the Roman World.) Pp. xiv + 185; 63 figures, 72 photoplates in text; folding map. Warminster, Wilts.: Aris & Phillips, 1982. Paper, £18. - Volume 33 Issue 1
Pigs or Pulse? The Pens at Knossos
An Early British Interest in Knossos
Four letters written in 1879, 1880, and 1884, by Thomas B. Sandwith, the British Consul in Crete, to the British Museum throw light on the early history of the site of the Bronze Age palace at Knossos. The first of these letters (1879) contains a brief eyewitness account of the excavations of Minos Kalokairinos there in the winter of 1878–9 and urges the British Museum to continue his work. The two later letters (1884) deal with his gift of a pit…
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