Scholar
N. K. Sandars
fl. 1955–2005
Scholar, active 1955–2005.
Life and work
- 1955Published in PPS 1955 Mycenaean knives, including Athens inventory 4937 and the Enkomi knife discussion.
- 1961Helped the author with details of swords previously unknown to him during preparation of the 1961 paper.
- 1978Scholar of Aegean bronze swords and author of The Sea Peoples (1978), cited for the Enkomi Horned God and for the origins of Cypriot ashlar masonry after 1200 BC.
- 1978Author of The Sea Peoples (1978), cited for comparative reliefs; the passage also cites his work for the Enkomi ingot god.
J. M. Blázquez, Blázquez, J. M. Fenicios, Griegos Y Cartagineses En Occidente [ocr] [1992] (1992)
- 1985Author of The Sea Peoples (London, 1985), cited as the source of a figure showing banded body armour identified with Sea Peoples dress; bibliographic reference only.
- UndatedGave much help in discussing the material from North Greece and Albania connected with the publication.
- UndatedWrote on the first Aegean swords and their ancestry and on later Aegean bronze swords, cited in the passage's notes.
Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete (1998), p. 124
- UndatedDevised a typology of Aegean bronze swords, supplied notes on a Cypriot bronze sword in Istanbul, and was cited for a seal from Enkomi and the dating of the Enkomi Horned God.
- UndatedDevised a typology of Aegean bronze swords, grouping the foreign Type II sword with native class F.
Despina Pilides, Handmade Burnished Wares of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus (1991), p. 233
- UndatedCited as a source for a seal from Enkomi, Cyprus, showing the Sea Peoples' warrior headdress.
- UndatedCommented on flat leaf-shaped razor blades of the type to which Knossos razor L 128 belongs.
- UndatedCited for the derivation of horned helmets from Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant, and for dating the Enkomi Horned God to the 12th century.
Åsa Sjöholm, Scandinavian Rock Carvings and Sardinian Bronzes, p. 37
Connections
1 personDisputes & the law
- Rival of Gunnel HultAshlar masonry origins on Cyprus Bronze Age Ashlar Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus, Ugarit, and Neighboring Regions (1986), p. 5811978–1983
Mentioned in
9 mentionsDocuments · 8
- The Dark Age of Greece: An archaeological survey of the eleventh to the eighth centuries BC
1971
discussed cist origins and migration
Snodgrass 1971
- Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework
1985
compared Sardinian warrior equipment
Schiavo et al. 1985
- A 'new' mirror handle from Cyprus
Krzyszkowska 1992
- Handmade burnished wares of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus
Pilides 1991
- Late Minoan Vases and Bronzes in Oxford
1968
- Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete
Rehak & Younger 1998
- People · 1listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Bronze Age Ashlar Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus, Ugarit, and Neighboring Regions (1986).
- 2.Antiquity 1961-06: Vol 35 Iss 138 (1961).
- 3.J. M. Blázquez, Blázquez, J. M. Fenicios, Griegos Y Cartagineses En Occidente [ocr] [1992] (1992).
- 4.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).
- 5.Late Minoan Vases and Bronzes in Oxford (1968).
- 6.Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete (1998).
- 7.A ‘new’ mirror handle from Cyprus (1992).
- 8.Despina Pilides, Handmade Burnished Wares of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus (1991).
- 9.Víctor M. Guerrero Ayuso; Jaume García Rosselló; Manuel Calvo Trias; Simón Gornés Hachero, Prehistoria de las Islas Baleares / Prehistory of the Balearic Islands: Archaeological Record and Social Evolution before the Iron Age (2007).
- 10.M. R. Popham; J. H. Betts; M. Cameron; H. W. Catling; E. A. Catling; D. Evely; R. A. Higgins; D. Smyth, The Minoan Unexplored Mansion at Knossos Text and Plates Supplementary Volume (1984).
- 11.Åsa Sjöholm, Scandinavian Rock Carvings and Sardinian Bronzes.
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