KE-RA-ME-JA : studies presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Ke-ra-me-ja is a woman's name that appears on a Linear B tablet from Knossos.

It means "potter" ( , from Greek , "potter's clay") and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine's scholarly pursuits: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts.

It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way.

The intellectual content of the essays presented to her in this volume demonstrate not only that her research has had a wide-ranging influence, but also that it is a model of scholarship to be emulated.