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The paper examines the famous Tanagra terracotta coffins (larnakes) as loci of enduring memory that contributed to the construction of funerary place and sought to prescribe affect within the heterotopic spaces of tombs. Their complex materialities, which allude to different media, elite and vernacular, local and distant, as well as their evocative iconography, rendered them powerful resources by which to remember ancestors and normatively prescribed affect on the occasion of death. Based on a new synthesis, the study discusses the material and iconographic characteristics of the larnakes and their spatial contexts from the perspective of affect. The larnakes are then cast against broader affective practices, concepts, and visual traditions of the Bronze Age and the later Greek world, and a tentative affective script for death at Tanagra is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores pig husbandry across the Aegean and Anatolia based on zooarchaeological data and ancient texts. The western Anatolian citadel of Kaymakçı is the departure point for discussion, as it sits in the Mycenaean-Hittite interaction zone and provides a uniquely large assemblage of pig bones. NISP, mortality, and biometric data from 38 additional sites across Greece and Anatolia allows observation of intra- and interregional variation in the role of pigs in subsistence economies, pig management, and pig size characteristics. Results show that, first, pig abundance at Kaymakçı matches Mycenaean and northern Aegean sites more closely than central, southern, and southeastern Anatolian sites; second, pig mortality data and biometry suggest multiple husbandry strategies and pig populations at Kaymakçı, but other explanations cannot yet be excluded; and, third, for the Aegean and Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age more generally, pig data suggests pluriformity, which challenges the use of "pig principles" in this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]