Serdecznie zapraszamy do udziału w Seminarium Archeologicznym IKŚIO PAN, w ramach którego dr Christina Tsouparopoulu, adiunkt w Zakładzie Starożytnych Kultur Egiptu i Bliskiego Wschodu, zaprezentuje wykład pt.

"Connecting Western Eurasia in mid-2nd millennium BCE: Material Flows of Common Mitanni cylinder seals".

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In her talk, Dr Tsouparopoulu will discuss Ancient Near Eastern material used and consumed in mainland Greece during the Late Bronze Age period. A new contextual analysis combined with new museum research (and pXRF material characterisation) of the objects in question -about 20 cylinder seals of the Common Mitanni style, made of frit/faience, and excavated mainly in chamber tombs in mainland Greece- indicates that these were indeed foreign and imported objects. They were not manufactured in the Aegean, but rather at different workshops in the Ancient Near East, were not acquired all at once, and contrary to the prevailing lore and my original hypothesis, they were most possibly not strengthening nor aiding in elite formation and status consolidation of their buried owners in life nor death.