Excavator · Scholar
J. S. Soles
fl. 1989–2022
Excavator and scholar, active 1989–2022. Worked with Costis Davaras and Zofia Anna Stos-Gale.
Life and work
- UndatedExcavator of Mochlos in Crete who co-authored the study of its metal finds, which describes fifteen fragments of copper ingots of Cypriot provenance and interprets them as broken for weighing.
- UndatedCo-authored the metal finds study for Mochlos, which describes fifteen fragments of Cypriot-provenance copper ingots, and interpreted them as deliberately broken for weighing.
- UndatedProvided information about rhyton 2/4/8/c (cat. 400 group) compliments of him; he authored forthcoming publication on Mochlos and related rhyta.
- UndatedExcavator of the settlement at Mochlos in Crete, cited on its metallurgy and on Near Eastern cylinder seals in the Aegean in a study of Aegean–Cypriot interaction.
- UndatedExcavator of the reoccupied settlement at Mochlos on Crete, who identified the village's LM III founder as a Knossian dependent with the rank of telestas.
The Canaanite Transport Amphora within the Late Bronze Age Aegean: (2014), p. 61
- UndatedExcavator of the reoccupied settlement at Mochlos, who identified the largest domestic structure and its Knossian-dependent founder with the rank of telestas.
- UndatedPreferred the earthquake hypothesis for the LM IB destructions (personal communication).
Connections
2 peopleColleagues & contacts
- Worked with Costis DavarasNear Eastern cylinder seals study; Excavations at Mochlos, 1992–1993; A New Oriental Cylinder Seal from Mochlos Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025), p. 118; Tracey Cullen, Aegean Prehistory: A Review (2001), p. 217; Joanne M. A. Murphy; Jerolyn E. Morrison, Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance: Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles (2022), p. xxii1989–1995
- Worked with Zofia Anna Stos-GaleMochlos IC metal finds A. Sacconi; M. Del Freo; L. Godart; M. Negri, Atti del XII Colloquio Internazionale di Micenologia (2008), p. 527
Mentioned in
7 mentionsDocuments · 5
- Archaeoseismological research on Minoan Crete: Past and present
2017
interpreted earthquake damage at Mochlos
Jusseret 2017
- Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta
Koehl 2006
- Aegean Prehistory: A Review
Cullen 2001
- The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to ca. 1200 BC
Graziadio 2025
- The Canaanite Transport Amphora within the Late Bronze Age Aegean
2014
- People · 2listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Tracey Cullen, Aegean Prehistory: A Review (2001).
- 2.A. Sacconi; M. Del Freo; L. Godart; M. Negri, Atti del XII Colloquio Internazionale di Micenologia (2008).
- 3.Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (2006).
- 4.Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025).
- 5.The Canaanite Transport Amphora within the Late Bronze Age Aegean: (2014).
- 6.Dimitri Nakassis; Joann Gulizio; Sarah A. James, KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (2014).
- 7.Jan Driessen; Colin F. Macdonald, The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption (2020).
- 8.Joanne M. A. Murphy; Jerolyn E. Morrison, Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance: Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles (2022).
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