16th Mycenaeological Colloquium
On 3-6 September 2025 the 16th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies will be held in Madrid, Spain. The program will be:
M. Del Freo, “Rapport 2022-2025 sur les textes en écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise, en linéaire A et en linéaire B”
M. Egetmeyer, “2021-2025 report on the Cypriot syllabic inscriptions”
C. Donnelly, “Considering three ‘new’ Cypro-Minoan inscriptions”
F. Aurora, G. Paglione, G. Bodard, C. Cenati, M. Filosa, E. Mylonas, and N. White, “Born digital editions of the Mycenaean documents using EpiDoc”
F. Aura Jorro, “La segunda edición del Diccionario Micénico (DMic.2)”
D. Nakassis, “New developments in Pylian epigraphy”
A. Greco, “Profiling the palaeographic behaviour of a Mycenaean scribe: Hand 117 and the new edition of the Linear B tablets from Knossos dealing with pa-i-to”
E. Notti, “The Linear A documents from Phaistos: A new and updated overview”
T. G. Palaima, “Palaeographia Studiorum Mycenologicorum Mater”
F. Carraro, “Kober’s ‘science of graphics’: when does writing start, and when does it end?”
J. Piquero, “Los orígenes del estudio del micénico y de las escrituras egeas en España”
K. Voutsa, “The history of the Linear B tablets from Pylos in the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum”
M. Civitillo, “Genesis and use of compound signs: Hieroglyphic, Linear A, and Linear B”
A. Karnava, “Writing directions in 1st mill. BC Cypriot epigraphy: local and pan-Cypriot trends”
L. Godart and A. Sacconi, “Les scribes des inscriptions votives et des vases du linéaire A”
T. Meißner and E. Salgarella, “E pluribus unum. Re-evaluating the Linear A syllabary”
A. Kanta and M. Perna, “New light on the fractional system in the Linear A script”
R. J. E. Thompson, “TLDR: Notes on Mycenaean and ‘Minoan’ phonology and script adaptation”
J. Weilhartner, “Differentiation of sex in Aegean scripts”
V. Aravantinos and I. Fappas, “Thebes and Linear B. A reassessment of find-places and contents”
O. Mouthuy and J. Driessen, “The West Magazines of the Palace at Knossos. An interdisciplinary approach to its Linear B tablets”
G. Flouda, “Linear B tablets from Knossos: thoughts on the interface between clay document production and fabric crafts (strings and threads)”
J. M. Jiménez Delgado, “Mycenaean cheesy puns: tu-ro2 versus τῡρός”
M. Valério, “The phonetic value of Linear B sign *56: ku-ru-su-pa3 and the p2-series”
C. W. Shelmerdine, “Written administration at Pylos in LH IIIA1-2 early”
J. Bennet and V. Petrakis, “AV Cs 93: A linear B record of cattle from Ayios Vasileios, Laconia”
L. Bendall, “The political geography between Laconia and Messenia”
M. F. Lane, “Evidence of land improvement and water management in Linear B. A comparison with recent archaeological discoveries”
C. Alonso, “Land management in Mycenaean Pylos: palatial authority, fiscal strategies and the question of eminent domain”
P. de Fidio, “Mycenaean knights”
R. Palmer, “Goats among the sheep: reconstructing the goat industry in the Linear B tablets”
M.-L. Nosch and R. Pierini, “Dressing the Mycenaeans. The terminology of dress and accessories in the Linear B tablets”
H. Landenius Enegren, “O-nu-ka, o-nu-ke and o-nu-ke-ja revisited from an ethnographical perspective”
I. Borguñó and C. Varias, “The Knossos Ag tablets: some thoughts on mixed work teams in Mycenaean times”
A. Bernabé, “Two Mycenaean religious terms: po-ro-po-i and tu-wa-si”
E. R. Luján and F. Díez, “Mycenaean di-wo-pu-ka-ta and boxing in the Aegean Bronze Age”
P. Sabattini, “Constraint-based orthography: modeling Mycenaean spelling rules with Optimality Theory”
L. van Beek, “A new linguistic interpretation of o-ka and of the first line of PY An 657”
J. Rau, “The morphological analysis of PY Aq 64.1 (H21) <]re-wi-jo-te>”
C. De Lamberterie, “Traces de poésie hexamétrique en grec mycénien”
J. L. García Ramón, “Antroponimia micénica, léxico y fraseología”
D. Kölligan, “Bahuvrihi-compounds in o- in Mycenaean and Alphabetic Greek”
E. Džukeska, “On the athematic velar nominal stems in Mycenaean Greek”
C. Le Feuvre, “Myc. pa-ro and Homeric παροίτερος, πάροιθεν”
F. Rougemont and J.-P. Vita, “Les listes de personnel dans les textes en linéaire B et dans les corpus d’Ougarit et d’Alalakh: des outils administratifs remis dans une perspective élargie aux administrations du Bronze recent”
J. Kelder, “Burning or eating, and where to do so? Mycenaean religion through the lens of Hittite texts”
M. Mann, “Mycenaean descriptions of chariots from a cognitive science perspective”
W. Waal, “Rule or exception? The Linear B tablets in comparative perspective”
EMAC 2025
On 8–12 September 2025 the 17th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC 2025) will be held in Bilbao, Spain. Further information is available at https://emac2025bilbao.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Hacıosmanoğlu, M. Kibaroğlu, Mustafa, H. Mönninghoff, and J. Opitz, “Cypro-Cilician Iron Age White Painted Ware at Sirkeli Höyük: Investigating Provenance and Cultural Affiliation”
E. Tema, J. Morales, A. Goguitchaichvili, and P. Gaber, “Cypriot Ceramics as Ancient Geomagnetic Field Recorders: New Insights from the Archaeological Site of Idalion”
A. Hein and V. Kilikoglou, “Still looking for the ideal cooking pot - Digital multi-scale models of cooking vessels”
I. Orleansky, “Interpreting Philistine Decorated Pottery Motifs Through R Programming Language”
A. Tsoupra, P. Barrulas, E. Nodarou, P. Moita, and J. Mirão, “Looking for clays: A geoarchaeological study of ceramic raw materials from Naxos (Greece)”
ICAP 2025
On 15–20 September 2025 the 16th annual International Conference of Archaeological Prospection (ICAP 2025) will be held in Ghent, Belgium. Further information is available at https://www.prospect.ugent.be/icap2025/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Plageras, J. Guillemoteau, P. Koyan, P. Nitschke, and N. Papadopoulos, “Shallow Marine FD – EMI Geophysical Prospection: A multi-instrument archaeological experiment in Stomio, Crete, Greece”
N. Papadopoulos, D. Oikonomou, A. Argyriou, C. Polykretis, and G. Cantoro, “Extensive geophysical survey in the archaeological site of Petres, northern Greece”
R. Ryndziewicz, T. Herbich, B. Lis, and A. Batziou, “Multi-Method non-invasive investigation of the Pefkakia/Demetrias site (Thessaly, Greece)”
N. Papadopoulos, A. Plageras, D. Oikonomou, M. Manataki, G. Cantoro, C. Knappett, and T. Theodoulou, “Geophysical mapping of coastal and shallow submerged Bronze Age settlements: The case of Palaikastro, Eastern Crete Greece”
IKUWA 8
On 13-17 October 2025 the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA 8) will be held in Oostende, Belgium. Further information is available at https://www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Van de Moortel, “A New 3D Reconstruction of the Middle Bronze Age Boat from Mitrou, Greece”
S. Spanos, “Ship Representations of the Late Geometric Period”
SMEIA II
On 28–30 October 2025 the 2nd International Symposium on the Metallurgy of the European Iron Age (SMEIA II) will be held in Mainz, Germany. Further information is available at https://www.leiza.de/forschung/forschungsfelder/zusammenleben-in-komplexer-werdenden-sozialen-gefuegen/international-symposium-on-the-metallurgy-of-the-european-iron-age-ii-smeia-ii. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Ioannides and A. Charalambous, “Reviving Copper Production: New Insights into Iron Age Metallurgy at Asgata–Kalavasos, Cyprus”