Category: Ceramics
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A New Study of Hellenistic Fine Wares at Corinth
Each of the 45 individual volumes that make up the Corinth Excavation Series published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens marks a labor of love, sweat, and tears. There are specific studies that focus on an individual building, such as the Temple of Apollo, the Odeion, or a Roman villa, unearthed through…
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Chemical and Microscopic Analysis of Attic and Corinthian pottery (Chaviara and Aloupi)
This article (in press) by Artemi Chaviara and Eleni Aloupi in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, examines the chemical and microscopic properties of black-glaze vessels from the Athenian Acropolis, Boeotia, and the potter’s quarter in Corinth. I tried to access the piece via my institution’s website but ran into problems. For now, I can only copy the metadata and abstract below:…
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Early Byzantine Pottery from a Building in Kenchreai
Back in August, I noted that the American Excavations at Kenchreai had developed its own website and digital archive for artifacts recovered from investigations of the last half century. I was pleased to see later in the fall the release of this preliminary report about an assemblage of late Roman /early Byzantine pottery found in a sea-side building excavated by the Greek Archaeological Service in 1976,…
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Ceramics, Cuisine, and Culture (Spataro & Villing, eds.)
This new edited collection devoted to the study of Mediterranean kitchen ware is a welcome development in the scholarship of ancient pottery, the most ubiquitous object unearthed in excavation and documented in regional surveys. Most publications on Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique pottery have focused on amphoras (storage and transport vessels), or fine table wares (for dining), material classes that were produced…
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A New Book on Rural Villas in Roman Greece
David Smith’s recent article in Archaeological Reports notes the publication of a new book titled Villae Rusticae: Family and market-oriented farms in Greece under Roman rule. Proceedings of an International Congress held at Patras, 23-24 April 2010. Edited by A.D. Rizakis and I.P. Touratsoglou, the publishers (Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation) describe the…
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Rinse Willet on the Distribution of Eastern Sigillata A
This new article by Rinse Willet in the journal HEROM looks like a useful overview of different statistical approaches to modeling the distribution of common pottery types in the Roman Mediterranean. The article focuses on the late Hellenistic to early Roman table ware Eastern Sigillata A: Willet, Rinse. “Experiments with Diachronic Data Distribution Methods Applied…
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Ann Brownlee on the Potter’s Quarter
It must be a sign of the official end of summer in the U.S. that the Penn Museum Blog has been running a series of final field reports on field work and study at archaeological sites in Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Xinjiang, Turkey, and Greece. One of these posts comes from Ann Brownlee, Associate Curator of…
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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 2
Here is the second part to last week’s post about new scholarship in the last three months. You can find the full collection of articles and books related to Corinthian studies at the Corinthian Studies Zotero Page. If you don’t see URLs for articles and books below (they sometimes don’t transfer in the copy), visit…
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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1
With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…
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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)
Your latest round of new Corinthian scholarship published or posted online in the last month – just in time for the holiday season. Feel free to reply to this post if you have something to add. If you are interested and qualified to review any of the following, contact me at corinthianmatters@gmail.com. For comprehensive bibliography…
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