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Collector

Sammlung Giamalakis

fl. 1954–1970

Collector, active 1954–1970.

Life and work

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    1. Collector on Crete whose collection held Minoan objects and a steatite cylinder seal of unknown provenance dated to LC I, regarded as Cypriot, Syro-Cypriot or Syrian.

      Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025), p. 118

    2. Holds a triple vessel made of three three-legged birds, whose Early Minoan date the passage suggests revising, possibly to LM IIIB-IIIC.

      Robert Laffineur; Thomas G. Palaima, Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference (2021), p. 285

    3. Held the Chersonesus sword, Collection No. 500, on Crete.

      Later Aegean Bronze Swords (1963), p. 146

    4. Held a bull's head from Zakro (Crete) in its collection, cited as an illustrated Minoan object.

      Das Kuppelgrab A von Archanes und das kretisch-mykenische Tieropferritual (1970), p. 192

    5. Held a fine bronze Moschophoros in his collection, cited for comparison with the Khaniale Tekke finds.

      The Annual of the British School at Athens 1954: Iss 49

    6. Owned Kultgefäß in Form von drei vereinten Taubenkörpern, Kreta, frühe Bronzezeit

      Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999), p. 654

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Sources

  1. 1.Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025).
  2. 2.Robert Laffineur; Thomas G. Palaima, Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference (2021).
  3. 3.Later Aegean Bronze Swords (1963).
  4. 4.Das Kuppelgrab A von Archanes und das kretisch-mykenische Tieropferritual (1970).
  5. 5.The Annual of the British School at Athens 1954: Iss 49.
  6. 6.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).

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