THE THERA FOUNDATION & IDRYMA THERAS

The First International Symposium "The Wall-paintings of Thera"

SESSION 1:
TECHNICAL DIMENSION (Chairmen: M. Bietak, C. Doumas)

AHMED EL GORESY, Polychromatic Wall Painting Decorations in Monuments of Pharaonic Egypt: Compositions, Chronology and Painting Techniques

EDNA R. RUSSMANN, The Egyptian Character of Certain Egyptian Painting Techniques

M. BIETAK, N. MARINATOS and C. PALYVOU, The Maze Tableau from Tell el DabÔa

RUDOLFINE SEEBER, The Technique of Plaster Preparation for the Minoan Wall Paintings at Tell el-DabÔa, Egypt - Preliminary Results

V. P ERDIKATSIS, V. KILIKOGLOU, S. SOTIROPOULOU AND E. CHRYSSIKOPOULOU, Physicochemical Characterisation of Pigments from Theran Wall Paintings

E. CHRYSSIKOPOULOU, V. KILIKOGLOU, V. PERDIKATSIS, S. SOTIROPOULOU, K. BIRTACHA and M. ZACHARIOUDAKIS, Making Wall Paintings: An Attempt to Reproduce the Painting Techniques of Bronze Age Thera

SESSION 2:
MODES OF REPRESENTATION (Chairman: C. Renfrew)

COLIN RENFREW, Locus iste: Modes of Representation and the Vision of Thera

KIKI BIRTACHA and MANOLIS ZACHARIOUDAKIS, Stereotypes in Theran Wall Paintings: Modules and Patterns in the Procedure of Painting

ELEANOR GURALNICK, Proportions of Painted Figures from Thera

M. SINCLAIR F. HOOD, Cretan Fresco Dates

MANFRED BIETAK, The Mode of Representation in Egyptian Art in Comparison to Aegean Bronze Age Art

REGINE SCHULZ, Remarks on the Composition of Hunting and Battle Scenes on the Chest of Tutankhamun

M.C. SHAW, Sea Voyages: The Fleet Fresco from Thera, and the Punt Reliefs from Egypt

DOMINIQUE COLLON, Syrian Glyptic and the Thera Wall Paintings

MARIO TORELLI, Santorini, Etruria and Archaic Rome: A Comparison of Mentality and Expression

SARAH P. M ORRIS, From Thera to Scheria: Aegean Art and Narrative

STEFAN HILLER, Thera Ships, Egypt and Homer

MARION TRUE, The Role of Formal Decorative Patterns in the Wall Paintings of Thera

PHILIP P. B ETANCOURT, The Concept of Space in Theran Compositional Systemics

PETER WARREN, From Naturalism to Essentialism in Theran and Minoan Art

SESSION 3:
ARCHITECTURAL/FUNCTIONAL DIMENSIONS (Chairman: C. Doumas)

F. BLAKOLMER, The Functions of Wall Painting and Other Forms of Architectural Decoration in the Aegean Bronze Age

CLAIRY PALYVOU, Concepts of Space in Aegean Bronze Age Art and Architecture

TESSY SALI, The Miniature Frieze of Thera: The Transubstantiation of Religious Beliefs in Architectural Design

JOSEPH SHAW and MARJATTA LUTON, The Foreshore at Akrotiri

SARA IMMERWAHR, Thera and Knossos: Relation of the Paintings to their Architectural Space

BARRY KEMP and FRAN WEATHERHEAD, Palace Decoration at Tell el-Amarna

SESSION 4:
ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION (Chairmen: P. Warren and P. Nomikos)

NATASHA ANGELOPOULOU, Nature Scenes: An approach to a Sympolic Art

P.S. ECONOMIDIS, The ÔLittle FishermanÕ and the Fish he holds

DIMITRA MYLONA, The ÔFishermenÕ Frescoes in the Light of the Fish Bone Evidence

MARIA P. B ELOYIANNI, Baskets in the Fresco of the ÔSaffron GatherersÕ at Akrotiri, Thera: Relevance to the Present

OHN G. COUTSIS, The Insects Depicted on the Wall Paintings of Thera: An Attempt at Identification

EVA PANAGIOTAKOPULU, Butterflies, Flowers and Aegean Iconography: A Story about Silk and Cotton

MOSHE NEGBI and ORA NEGBI, Domestication of Ornamental and Aromatic Plants in the Aegean: The Case of the Madonna Lily

RAY PORTER, The Flora of the Theran Wall Paintings: Living Plants and Motifs Ð Sea Lily, Crocus, Iris and Ivy

ANDREAS VLACHOPOULOS, The Reed Motif in the Thera Wall Paintings and its Association with Aegean Pictorial Art

A. SARPAKI, Plants Chosen to Be Depicted on Theran Wall Paintings: Tentative Interpretations

KENNETH J. HARTE, Birds of the Thera Wall Paintings

DAGMAR KLEINSG†TL, Some Remarks of the Felids of Thera

K. TRANTALIDOU, Animals Bones and Animal Representations at Late Bronze Age Akrotiri

KENNETH J. HARTE, Birds of the Thera Wall Paintings

SESSION 5:
SOCIAL DIMENSION (Chairman: M. Bietak and R. Laffineur)

IRENE J. WINTER, Thera Paintings and the Ancient Near East: The Private and Public Domains of Wall Decoration

BARBARA and WOLF-DIETRICH NIEMEIR, Aegean Frescoes in Syria-Palestine: Alalakh and Tel Kabri

SHELLEY WACHSMANN, Some Notes on Mediterranean Seafaring During the Second Millenium BC

IMMA KILIAN-DIRLMEIER, Thera and Warfare

CHRISTINA A. TELEVANTOU, Aegean Bronze Age Wall Painting: The Theran Workshop

CHRISTOS BOULOTIS, Travelling Fresco Painters in the Aegean Late Bronze Age: The Diffusion Patterns of a Prestigious Art

ELLEN N. DAVIS, The Organisation of the Theran Artists

MARISA MARTHARI, The Attraction of the Pictorial: Observations of the Relationship of Theran Pottery and Theran Fresco Iconography

ROBERT LAFFINEUR, Dress, Hairstyle and Jewellery in the Thera Wall Paintings

SESSION 6:
RELIGIOUS OR SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS (Chairwoman: M. True)

LYVIA MORGAN, Form and Meaning in Figurative Painting

GERALNDINE C. GESELL, Blood on the Horns of Consecration?

IRINI PAPAGEORGIOU, On the Rites de Passage in Late Cycladic Akrotiri, Thera: A Reconsideration of the Frescoes of the ÔPriestessÕ and the ÔFishermenÕ of the West House

CHRISTOS DOUMAS, Age and Gender in the Theran Wall Paintings

ADDITIONAL NOTE: NEW DATA FROM AYIA TRIADA

PIETRO MILITELLO and VINCENZO LA ROSA, New Data on Fresco Painting from Ayia Triada

CLOSING ADDRESSES

Robert Laffineur

Peter M. Nomikos

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