Archaic terracottas of Boeotia.

What Difference does Time Make? JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal (eds)Papers from the Ancient and Islamic Middle East and China in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Midwest Branch of the American Oriental Society , 2019

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This article aims to show the richness of the study of terracottas. Until now, scholars of the Near East have essentially studied their iconography. This article shows that when the neglected areas of the terracotta object - the back and sides - are studied, a better understanding of the object itself, how it was produced and how it was handled can be achieved.

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Among the most frequently found artefacts in sanctuaries, tombs, houses, caves, and other archaeological sites are terracotta figurines. Having been studied extensively by scholars, in terms of typologies and chronologies, their general classification is well-established. More recently, coroplastic studies have also focused on the analysis of figurines within their immediate contexts (Barret-2011; Huysecom-Haxi/Muller-2015). Despite this progress, many questions still remain concerning the use of figurines at various sites: Did the use of figurines change over time at a specific site? What were the meaning and implications of these changes? Can the figurines be associated with a specific gender or social class? The present panel aims to contribute to the understanding of the use of terracotta figurines within their broader context by addressing the questions above. The panel begins with an examination of recently excavated and still-unpublished terracotta from the Petsas house (LBA) that analyzes consumers’ choice by comparing data about the range of figurines available to consumers with information about the figurines’ depositional context. The second paper explores the terracotta figurines of two sanctuaries in the Iron Age Cypriot city-kingdom of Marion to see how different cult practices impacted the choice of iconography and how this iconography subsequently changed over time. Moving to the Acropolis in Athens, the third paper considers the uses of Archaic generic figurines at this location by comparing the uses of similar items at other Archaic sanctuaries in Greece. The next paper studies Archaic figurines from temple G in Agrigento (6th-5th century BC) to understand the use of the sacred area before the building of the temple and its altar during the Classical period. The paper sheds light on many little-known ritual activities which took place during the Archaic period. Next is an exploration of the development of figurines at Eleon (6th -4th centuries BC) and the implications of changes in ritual practices. The discussion progresses with a paper which discusses the disappearance of piglet figurines at Sicilian sanctuaries (end of the 4th century BC) and their relation to changes in the cult of Demeter and Kore. The last paper of this panel examines a corpus of Corinthian comic terracotta figurines (dating from the Late Classical to Hellenistic periods) found at various locations (sanctuaries, shrines and market centers) demonstrating that these figurines had more than one function. Together, the papers of this panel will explore new questions and methodologies regarding the use of terracottas.

The archaic terracotta figurine Budapest 77.104.A, belonging to the well-known class of Tarentine votives representing a reclining banqueter, is taken here as a starting point for a discussion concerning the artistic sources that determined the style and iconography of this class at its beginning. A number of comparisons with a wide range of works of art of the 6 th century BC help to reconsider the assertion, generally accepted up to now, according to which the theme and the scheme of Tarentine banqueters would have been adapted directly from Eastern Greek art. A thorough stylistic analysis of early Tarentine banqueter types shows, in fact, that Eastern Greek models played a role in the formation of local types only as a part of a more complex whole, in which the impact of Laconian models must have been equally important. In fact, it seems more likely that the ultimate origin of the Tarentine banqueter scheme can be traced back to the art of its metropolis, Sparta. On the other hand, in the second half of the 6 th century, an interest for East Greek models can be observed also in Laconian art itself, with strikingly similar results as it is shown by some coroplastic documents in Taras.

Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (History and Political Science), 2019

This paper sets out to describe and characterize the terracotta production in the ancient Greek city of Kallatis located in the territory of modern Romania. Many of the figurines found here reflect the high level of the development of applied art, which was achieved by this Dorian colony in the second half of the 4th -early 3rd centuries B.C. The author summarizes and classifies almost all the finds of terracotta and also shows the role played by Kallatis in the production and distribution of these products typical of the ancient Greek world. The emergence of artistic workshops in the western Pontic cities was analyzed as a necessity for the newcomers to continue their traditional religious practices, to surround themselves with the faces of the gods that protected them, from birth to beyond the grave. The paper presented the synthesis and cultural osmosis processes, the interferences and the specific tastes of a province that had its own workshops and multiple clients, comparable to that of a metropolis. The conducted analysis confirmed that a large number of discovered terracotta, the remains of a ceramic furnace and other finds indicate the existence in the city of a wide local production of figurines, such as Tanagra -masterpieces of Hellenistic coroplasters.