Unit:
Department of History and ArchaeologyLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Κωνσταντίνος Κοπανιάς, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής της Αρχαιολογίας της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας , Εθνικο Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ελένη Φιλιππάκη, Ερευνήτρια ΕΚΕΦΕ Δημόκριτος
Γιώργος Βαβουρανάκης, Καθηγητής Προϊστορικού Αιγαίου, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας , Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Γιάννης Παπαδάτος, Καθηγητής Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας , Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Νικόλαος Δημάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας , Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Κωνσταντίνος Καλκάνης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων και Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Pascal Butterlin, Καθηγητής Πανεπιστημίου, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Σορβόννης-Παρί I-Πάνθεον
Original Title:
Swords in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East during the Μiddle and Λate bronze age: a study on typology, practical use, and symbolic significance
Translated title:
Swords in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East during the Μiddle and Λate bronze age: a study on typology, practical use, and symbolic significance
Summary:
This thesis, submitted to the Department of History and Archeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, deals with swords of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. It analyzes the symbolic and practical use of these objects, combining theoretical and practical studies. The study of their typology, contextual analysis, iconography and written sources is used to assess their morphological evolution, as well as their practical or symbolic roles. Carrying out archaeometric analysis on samples of swords from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, in combination with the design of sword models in a computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) program, contributes to the identification of their alloy, the understanding of the know-how of their manufacture, as well as their capacity as practical weapons. The thesis thus presents the various biographies of the sword types over a wide geographical area and the comparison of the weapon's role from region to region, taking into account the historical and social conditions operating.
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
Swords, Middle and Late Bronze Age, Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, Archaeometallurgy
Number of references:
1847
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