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The altar over shaft grave IV at Mycenae in a wider perspective 101compared to this scene of the Late Neolithic incorporatesboth possible interpretations of the Vinca pieces.νA strikingly similar structure of a later date wasfound in the NC part of the Athenian Agora with astone column, the platform, the cylindrical container(hole). 69 A lekythos from the Stathatos Coll. shows themourning Demeter sitting in front of a lonely columnof a temple or sanctuary (Fig. 8), whilst the lekythosof the former Englefield Coll. probably also depictsDemeter resting in front of a round altar with a centralhole (i.e. a foculus), 70 or the upper kerb of a sacrificialpit (Fig. 9), similarly to that of the Vinca piecesν- and to the circular altar of Shaft grave IV at Mycenae.Fig. 9. Former Englefield Coll., after Holmberg 1953.69. Stro/m 1983 (1985), 144-145, with further references.70. Holmberg 1953, 80-86 and figs 1-2. For further questions on sacral columns, see Makkay 1988, 3-16.PostscriptThe long time interval between the first draft of thispaper in 1990 and its publication would make a revisionsuperficial, even impossible. I only mention my articlefrom 1992 which is concerned with a similar question(Makkay 1992), and also two recent publications on ritualuse of contemporary (or earlier) figurines of the Cucuteniculture (Ursulescu-Tencariu 2006, Monah et al. 2003).Makkay 2006 also offers a summary of early connectionsbetween the steppe cultures and Early Mycenaean Greece.Remembering those days I keep a nice image in my memoryof this event, and I am glad that the collected papersfinally have arrived at the point of publication. Thanks aredue to Prof. Dr. G. Korres who had worked so hard for theorganization of this meeting for so many months, and -with the help of Dr Nektarios Karadimas – also for thispublication for so many years.REFERENCESA ο kerström, A ο ., 1988. ‘Cultic installations in Mycenaeanrooms and tombs’, in E.B. French and K.A. Wardle(eds), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol: BristolClassical Press): 202-205.Andronikos, M., 1968. ‘Totenkult’ in Archaeologia HomericaIII, W (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht): 127ff.Blackburn, E.T., 1970. Middle Helladic Graves and BurialCustoms with Special Reference to Lerna in the Argolid,PhD thesis, University of Cincinnati.Blegen, C.W., 1937. Prosymna, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.Boghian, D. and Mihai, C., 1987. ‘Le complexe de culte etle vasse à décor à Buznea’, in La civilisation de Cucutenien contexte européen (Bibl. Arch. Iassiensis 1, Ias,i:Université “Al. I. Cuza”): 313-325.Branigan, K., 1975. ‘The round graves of Leukas reconsidered’,BSA 79: 38-49.Carruba, O., 1966. Das Beschwörungsritual für die GöttinνWisurijanza, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.Dannheimer, H. (ed.), 1985. Idole. Frühe Götterbilder undOpfergaben (Ausstellungskataloge der PrähistorischenStaatssammlung 12), Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern.Deighton, H.J., 1982. The ‘Weather-God’ in Hittite Anatolia(BAR 143), Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.Dickinson, O.T.P.K., 1977. The Origins of Mycenaean Civilization(SIMA 49), Göteborg: P. A ο ström.Dietrich, B.C., 1965. Death, Fate and the Gods. The Developmentof a Religious Idea in Greek Popular Belief andin Homer (Classical studies 3), London: University ofLondon, the Athlone Press.Dörpfeld, W., 1927. Alt-Ithaka: ein Beitrag zur Homer-Frage,Studien und Ausgrabungen aus der Insel Leukas -Ithaka, München: R. Uhde.Drews, R., 1988. The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European