Griffin Warrior Tomb Articles Open Access

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Thanks to the generosity of the Publications Office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the editor of its journal Hesperia, Jen Sacher, we are pleased to announce that the following articles are available free of charge at jstor.org for a limited time only. Enjoy:

(1) The Gold Necklace from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker
Hesperia 87.4 (2018), pp. 611-632
DOI: 10.2972/hesperia.87.4.0611
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.87.4.0611

(2) The Combat Agate from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis
Hesperia 86.4 (2017), pp. 583-605
DOI: 10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0583
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0583

(3) The Lord of the Gold Rings: The Griffin Warrior of Pylos
Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker
Hesperia 85.4 (2016), pp. 627-655
DOI: 10.2972/hesperia.85.4.0627
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.85.4.0627

(4) An Archer from the Palace of Nestor: A New Wall-Painting Fragment in the Chora Museum
Hariclia Brecoulaki, Caroline Zaitoun, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Andreas G. Karydas, Maria Perla Colombini, Ugo Bartolucci
Hesperia 77.3 (2008), pp. 363-397
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40205755

(5) Animal Sacrifice, Archives, and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor
Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis
Hesperia 73.2 (2004), pp. 179-215
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4134892

CaLiBRA: Cambridge Linear B Research Archive

CaLiBRA

Welome to the Cambridge Linear B Research Archive. The archive currently hosts a searchable database of photographs of the Linear B tablets from Pylos.

Tablet and photograph search

Type a tablet identifier into the search box to find tablets. Examples include Cn to find all tablets of the Cn series, A- to find tablets of series A, Aa, Ab etc.

Find a specific tablet using its serial number with its site prefix and/or series prefix, e.g. PY 64, Aq 64.
Use a scribe identifier (H21), stylus identifier (S4) or class identifier (Ciii) to find tablets by scribal information.

If you know a plate number for the Pylos photograph set you can use that too. Examples are Pylos.1 and Pylos.1.3.

Use a list of search terms separated by commas to find tablets and photographs which match any of the criteria, e.g. Aq, Wr, H4, Pylos.96 to find tablets in the Aq series, the Wr series, tablets by hand 4 and plate 96 of the Cincinnati set of Pylos photographs.

More complex search terms can be built up using brackets and the and operator, e.g. (Aq, Cn) and (3, 64).

A Finding Aid for the Pylos Excavations Archive

A Finding Aid for the Pylos Excavations Archive
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan

 

A new finding aid for the Pylos Excavations Archive at the ASCSA has replaced the old inventory. In addition, with the remainder of a grant from the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, which funded the organization and publication of a conference in honor of Carl and Elizabeth Blegen in 2013-2014, we digitized a number of excavation notebooks.

The thorough finding aid is the intellectual product of Research Archivist, Dr. Leda Costaki (with the exception of the catalog of the Pylos frescoes which was done by Eileen Gantos in 1996). Dr. Jeff Kramer, Post-Doctoral Fellow (Archivist of Excavation Records), is currently completing a similar finding aid for the Pylos Excavation records in the Classics Department of the University of Cincinnati. Links to both finding aids will be posted on each repository's web site.

Pylos aficionados, you can access the new finding aid at: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/pylos-excavations-finding-aid

And see also Excavation Records:  Excavation notebooks, architectural plans and drawings, and photographs related to ASCSA excavations.

GRAVE OF THE “GRIFFIN WARRIOR”, PALACE OF NESTOR, PYLOS, GREECE

GRAVE OF THE “GRIFFIN WARRIOR”, PALACE OF NESTOR, PYLOS, GREECE

Centuries before the destruction of the Mycenaean palaces, a warrior died and was buried alone near the site of the later “Palace of Nestor at Pylos.”  His burial was accompanied by one of the most magnificent displays of wealth discovered in Greece in recent decades.  The character of the objects that followed him to the afterlife prove that this part of Greece, like Mycenae, was being indelibly shaped by close contact with Crete.  This was the time of the very birth of European civilization.

The warrior’s tomb was discovered and excavated in summer 2015 by a team sponsored by the University of Cincinnati: students, professors, and professional archaeologists from a dozen different universities, representing as many different nationalities.  Project co-directors Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis of the University of Cincinnati note:  “The team did not discover the grave of the legendary King Nestor, who headed a contingent in the Greek forces at Troy.  Nor did it find the grave of his father, Neleus.  They found something perhaps of even greater importance: the tomb of one of the powerful men who laid foundations for the Mycenaean civilization, the earliest in Europe.”

Overlooking the bay of Navarino, high above the sea on the ridge of Englianos, sits the “Palace of Nestor at Pylos,” the most completely preserved of all Bronze Age palaces on the Greek mainland...

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