University of Amsterdam (Doctorandus) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD)
Thesis
The Kingdom of Mycenae. A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age Aegean.
Academic work
Discipline
Archaeology
Sub-discipline
Bronze Age Aegean and Classical Greek archaeology
Institutions
Leiden University
Jorrit Kelder (Hoorn, 1980), is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian. He is known especially for his work on Mycenaean political structures, and in particular his argument (first proposed in 2005 and elaborated on in a 2010 monograph) that the Mycenaean world was a single, unified state (rather than a patchwork of culturally similar, yet politically independent palace states, as had hitherto been proposed).[1]
Kelder’s professional career is in academic policy and administration, and he worked as a policy officer or adviser for various academic institutions, including the Netherlands Organisation to Scientific Research, the university of Amsterdam, and the university of Oxford. For nearly 9 years, he worked as a Senior Grant Adviser for Leiden University, leaving his post in late 2023 to devote himself to research.[2] He has held, and continues to hold, various (honorary) affiliated positions.[3] He was a visiting professor in Greek Archaeology at Ghent University in the 2019-2020 academic year,[4] a guest researcher at Leiden University,[5] and an associate member of the sub-faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and a member of the common room of Wolfson College, Oxford.[6]
Kelder is a member of the Board of Luwian Studies,[7] a member of the supervisory board of the Teylers Museum[8] and serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Dutch Art and Heritage council, the Mondriaan Fonds.[9]
He has been the recipient of various prestigious fellowships, including a fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and a Guest Scholarship at the J. Paul Getty Museum.[10]
Apart from his work on Mycenaean political structures, Kelder has published extensively on the Mycenaean world and its connections to contemporary civilisations, including Egypt and the Hittite Empire.[11][12]
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^"Scholar Year 2015/2016 (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu.
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^Larsson, Naomi (August 9, 2016). "Lost cities #2: the search for the real Troy – 'not just one city but at least 10'". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
JorritKelder (Hoorn, 1980), is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian. He is known especially for his work on Mycenaean political structures, and...
Mycenaean palace-state could have mustered, some researchers such as JorritKelder have argued that Ahhiyawa was an alliance or confederation. It has been...
challenged by various specialists, such as JorritKelder and, most recently, Birgitta Eder and Reinhard Jung. Kelder pointed out that a number of palaces and...
product during the Minoan and Mycenaean periods. Dutch archaeologist JorritKelder proposed that the Mycenaeans sent shipments of olive oil, probably alongside...
Greece. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400846306. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). "The Kingdom of Mycenae: A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze...
Warriors. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78076-060-5. Kelder, Jorrit. "Greece during the Late Bronze Age | JorritKelder – Academia.edu". academia.edu. Retrieved 24...
Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-315-43491-9. Kelder, 2003–2004: 67 Yakubovich 2010, pp. 107-11 Kelder, Jorrit (2004–2005). "Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia"...
largest corpus, of 400 tablets, is from Thebes. A conjectural reading by JorritKelder and Marco Poelwijk of another Linear B tablet, PY Ta 711, has speculated...
Exegetical Study of a Biblical City, Tribe and Ancestor, 2003, p36-41 Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). "The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece". Jaarbericht...
Document Format and Record Management. She is co-editor, along with Jorrit M. Kelder, of From 'Lugal.Gal' to 'Wanax': kingship and political organisation...
of knowledge about it”. The Board of Trustees includes Ivo Hajnal, JorritKelder, Matthias Oertle and Jeffrey Spier. In May 2016, Luwian Studies went...
by its Board, which currently includes Matthias Örtle, Ivo Hajnal, JorritKelder, Jeffrey Spier and Eberhard Zangger. It is registered with the Handelsregisterambt...
ediana.gwi.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2019-03-26. "Lydian Corpus" (PDF). Kelder, Jorrit. "A new reading of Lydian laqrisa as "words" or "inscriptions" (?)"...
ISSN 1570-7008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2015. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). "The Kingdom of Mycenae: A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze...
Aramaic text specifies the date as the 5th of the month of Markheshvan. Kelder, Jorrit (June 2011). "A new reading of Lydian laqrisa as 'words' or 'inscriptions'...
West: Philology". Hittite Landscape and Geography. Brill. pp. 273–274. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). The Kingdom of Mycenae: A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze...
via". Archived from the original on 2010-05-23. Retrieved 2010-09-24. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2009). "Royal Gift Exchange between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as...
Old Mystery. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926308-0. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). "The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece". Jaarbericht...
Art. University of California Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-520-07488-0. Kelder, Jorrit (2017). Narmer, scorpion and the representation of the early Egyptian...
Tsountas]. Nea Estia (in Greek). 180: 564. Retrieved 31 October 2023. Kelder, Jorrit M. (2009). "Royal Gift Exchange between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as...
biblical studies, vol. 15, Society of Biblical Lit, ISBN 978-1-58983-721-8 Kelder, Jorrit M. (2010). "The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece". 42. Jaarbericht...
Armies of the Middle East, Osprey Publishing Ltd 1981 ISBN 0-85045-384-4 Kelder, Jorrit. "Horseback riding and Cavalry in Mycenaean Greece". Brzezinski, R....
Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2015. Kelder, Jorrit (2004–2005). "The Chariots of Ahhiyawa". Dacia, Revue d'Archéologie...
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