Diamantis Panagiotopoulos is Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg.His research interests include the social structures of the Aegean civilizations, Aegean imagery, theinterconnections between the Aegean and the Near East in the second millennium B.C., and ancient sealingpractices. He is currently director of the interdisciplinary research program on Minoan Koumasa, Crete.