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Robert Koehl

fl. 1981–2022

Scholar and curator, active 1981–2022.

Life and work

  1. 1985
    Assembled the 1985 exhibition Ancient Artifacts: Cyprus 2500–500 B.C. from John Ringling's collection, and published Mycenaean pottery from Tell Atchana and Aegean rhyta.

    Florida State University, Florida Flambeau (1985)

  2. 1985
    Florida State University archaeologist who commented on the 1985 Cyprus exhibition and reported on the Cypriot ware found at Kommos in Crete.

    Florida State University, Florida Flambeau (1985)

  3. 2005
    Published the Mycenaean sherds stored at Woolley's dig house (2005) and presented on their level markings at AIA 2005.

    Amir Sumaka Fink, Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana (Alalakh): Stratigraphy, chronology, history (2010), p. 137

  4. Undated
    Interpreted the Hagia Triada relief vases, including the Chieftain Cup and Harvester Rhyton, within Minoan male initiation rituals.

    Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (2006), p. 336

  5. Undated
    Studied the imported Mycenaean pottery from Tell Atchana (Alalakh) and found almost no LH IIIB present.

    Guy D. Middleton, Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean (2020), p. 184

  6. Undated
    Catalogued the Minet el-Beida vase in his synthesis of Aegean Bronze Age rhyta, placing it in the Type III conical group, and described a handle with a horse head.

    Redécouverte d'un <i>unicum</i> de Minet el-Beida : un vase à boire à décor plastique zoomorphe (2018), p. 204

  7. Undated
    Made a report on and interpretation of the Cypriot ware found at Kommos.

    Excavations at Kommos (Crete) during 1980 (1981), p. 246

  8. Undated
    Spoke in the recorded talk «A cult statue rendered on a Mycenaean krater from Cyprus» (Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, 2022-02-22). As stated in the recording: Received his BA in Classics from Pomona College in 1974; Received his PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982; Specialist in Minoan and Mycenaean culture; has participated in excavations at Gezer, Kokkaria Hill on Paros, Gla, Kommos and Psira; Currently staff specialist in Aegean culture on the excavations at Atchana (Alalakh) in Turkey; Author of Serapeum III / The Imported Bronze and Iron Age Wares of Area II/X at Paphos, published 1985.

    Robert B. Koehl, «A cult statue rendered on a Mycenaean krater from Cyprus», recorded lecture, 57th Public Lecture Series - Spring Semester 2022, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2022-02-22, at 0:00:00

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  • Koehl analysed Tell es-Sa'idiyeh stirrup jars by NAA in Jerusalem.

    two Simple Style stirrup jars and three stirrup jars from Tell es-Sa'idiyehGauß et al. 2011, p. 180

Mentioned in

7 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.W. Gauß (ed.), M. Lindblom (ed.), R. A. K. Smith (ed.), J. C. Wright (ed.) (2011). Our cups are full: Pottery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  2. 2.Florida State University, Florida Flambeau (1985).
  3. 3.Amir Sumaka Fink, Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana (Alalakh): Stratigraphy, chronology, history (2010).
  4. 4.Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (2006).
  5. 5.Guy D. Middleton, Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean (2020).
  6. 6.Redécouverte d'un <i>unicum</i> de Minet el-Beida : un vase à boire à décor plastique zoomorphe (2018).
  7. 7.Excavations at Kommos (Crete) during 1980 (1981).
  8. 8.Robert B. Koehl, «A cult statue rendered on a Mycenaean krater from Cyprus», recorded lecture, 57th Public Lecture Series - Spring Semester 2022, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2022-02-22, at 0:00:00. Online

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