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K. Kilian

fl. 1978–2022

Excavator and archaeologist, active 1978–2022.

Life and work

  1. 1991
    Possibly found another lion bone at Tiryns in summer 1991, per John Younger's personal communication.

    Anne P. Chapin, Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr (2004), p. 190

  2. 2022
    Said in the recorded talk «Transformations at the twilight of the Late Bronze Age Aegean at Tiryns» (Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, 2022-10-11): Excavated the lower citadel of Tiryns from the late 1970s onwards and showed it was intensely used in palatial and post-palatial periods.

    Joseph Maran, «Transformations at the twilight of the Late Bronze Age Aegean at Tiryns», recorded lecture, 58th Public Lecture Series - Winter Semester 2022, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2022-10-11, at 0:27:51

  3. Undated
    Excavator of Tiryns who published Cypriot imports from its late Mycenaean layers, including terracotta wall brackets attributed to Cyprus, and made the Tiryns material available for the study of Cypriot handmade burnished ware.

    Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (2009), p. 256

  4. Undated
    Granted permission to study the Tiryns material and forwarded information from recent excavations at Tiryns, which the author was permitted to quote.

    Despina Pilides, Handmade Burnished Wares of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus (1991), p. 124

  5. Undated
  6. Undated
    Excavated Building VI at Tiryns, named Room 123 the "House of the Priestess", and linked it to cult activity in west Casemate 7.54.

    Bryan Edward Burns, Import consumption in the bronze age Argolid: effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean society (1999), p. 99

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    Published study of a chariot race scene on a late Mycenaean krater, cited in discussion of the Tiryns krater's seated goddess motif.

    Robert LAFFINEUR; Robin HÄGG, POTNIA: DEITIES AND RELIGION IN THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE (2001), p. 398

Mentioned in

9 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (2009).
  2. 2.Despina Pilides, Handmade Burnished Wares of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus (1991).
  3. 3.Anne P. Chapin, Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr (2004).
  4. 4.Giorgos Bourogiannis, Contextualising Cypriot writing overseas: Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic inscriptions found in Greece (2024).
  5. 5.Bryan Edward Burns, Import consumption in the bronze age Argolid: effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean society (1999).
  6. 6.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).
  7. 7.Robert LAFFINEUR; Robin HÄGG, POTNIA: DEITIES AND RELIGION IN THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE (2001).
  8. 8.Joseph Maran, «Transformations at the twilight of the Late Bronze Age Aegean at Tiryns», recorded lecture, 58th Public Lecture Series - Winter Semester 2022, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2022-10-11, at 0:27:51. Online

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