Hellenistic Pottery

Ninina Cuomo di Caprio

    Series: Studia Archaeologica, 144
    Format: 17 x 24 cm
    Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
    Pages and Illustrations: 720, 200 b/w ill
    Publication Year: 2007
PDF ISBN 9788891317490
ISBN: 978-88-8265-397-2
A circa vent'anni dalla pubblicazione, il manuale ormai classico di Ninina Cuomo di Caprio viene riproposto per rispondere a precise esigenze di studio nel campo della ricerca archeologica e di formazione nell'ambito universitario. Il testo è stato completamente ripensato e riscritto, valorizzando le qualità che lo hanno imposto nel settore: la chiarezza, la completezza, l'attenzione culturale e storica alla tecnologia della ceramica. Nel ripercorrere il cammino seguito da un manufatto fittile dalla modellazione in argilla alla cottura nella fornace a combustibile solido naturale, l'attenzione è rivolta non soltanto agli aspetti tecnici ma anche alla piena consapevolezza circa le molte facce della produzione ceramica. La trattazione è incentrata sul mondo antico ma non solo classico: si aprono sviluppi riguardanti sia la preistoria sia il mondo medievale. Tutto questo rende il volume uno strumento di lavoro ancora più prezioso. La seconda parte del manuale è dedicata alle analisi di laboratorio che possono essere utili per una migliore comprensione della ricerca archeologica ed è completata da un'appendice sulle fonti letterarie antiche.

This is a published doctoral thesis in Turkish language at the Dokuz Eylül University, submitted by Gülseren Kan Şahin in 2015. In this dissertation pottery finds from Hadrianopolis and its chora in southwestern Paphlagonia (northwestern central Turkey) are presented in detail, which were collected between the years 2005 and 2008. A version of this thesis in English language is already published in 2016 as a part of BAR International Series (no. 2786) and in Turkish language in 2019 as a part of publication series of Turkish Historical Society.
Paphlagonia was an ancient region on the Black Sea coast of north-central Anatolia, bordered by Bithynia to the west, Pontus to the east and Galatia to the south.  Today, Hadrianopolis and its chora lie in the region around Eskipazar in the Turkish province of Karabük. Between 2005 and 2008 an archaeological team from the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir carried out archaeological field surveys, excavations and restorations in Hadrianopolis and its close surroundings. During these four field campaigns, 1550 sherds ranging between the Pre-Iron Age (IInd mill. BC.) and the Middle Byzantine period (late 11th/early 12th cent. AD.) were collected, most of which consisted of Late Roman-Early Byzantine (late 5th-mid 8th cent. AD.) coarse ware. In this study 30 main pottery groups were constituted, based on their chronology, function and fabric. The book contains a detailed description of each find deposit, including the typologies and fabrics of wares and a comprehensive catalogue with drawings, as well as photos, of each sherd. It is, thus, the first extensive pottery report of the Turkish Black Sea area, offering a continual picture of all the wares and chronologies available, including their chronologies.

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Qal‘at ‘Aïsha is a fortress located in the Mount Lebanon range that was discovered during an archaeological survey by the author. Built on a rocky peak 2,219 m above sea level, this stronghold is surrounded by hostile rugged terrain and subject to extreme weather conditions, including low temperatures and abundant snow for six to seven months a year. Qal‘at ‘Aïsha enjoys a unique location with an unimpeded view of the coastline between Ras al-Bassit, Syria, and Batrun, Lebanon. The pottery sherds collected from the site are few, but these few fragments attest to human settlement and occupation
between the Chalcolithic and the Late Roman period.

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We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international symposium, entitled “Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Mediterranean in Izmir, Turkey”. Between May 17 and 18, 2018 we have hosted c. 50 participants from 15 countries and 34 papers dealing with terracotta unguentaria were presented in these two days of symposium. We ask you to send us your paper, if it deals with terracotta unguentaria. The Editorial Board asks you kindly to provide an original, previously unpublished and scientific paper, dealing with unpublished materials from excavated or surveyed sites or from the museums with previously unpublished photos without copyright problems.

Sardis became a city sometime in the early first millennium BCE, and it remained the largest urban center in Lydia for a period of about 1500 years. Over that time its fortunes and character changed, as did its relationship with its large, fertile, rural surroundings. In this paper I examine this relationship during a span of three to four hundred years, from the 5th/4th through the 2nd/1st centuries BCE. I compare locally produced and imported pottery recovered in excavations at Sardis itself with that found by the Central Lydian Archaeological Survey (CLAS), an intensive field project covering about 350 km2 around the Gygean Lake. There is an odd, counter-intuitive, correlation between the political importance of Sardis and its rural settlement. During the city's years of political stature, survey results show that many people lived out in the hinterland, far from the city. In the second century BCE the pattern switched. After the Seleucid defeat at Magnesia (190 BCE), when Pergamon took control of Sardis and its territory, and the city became just another urban center, its political glory became a thing of the past. At this precise time, according to the CLAS survey data, the countryside emptied out and people moved back into the city. I consider the reasons behind this paradoxical situation, in which political stature and urban prosperity are seemingly at odds with one another.

Özet: Bu çalışmada İnegöl ve çevresinde yapılan araştırmalar sonucunda tespit edilmiş olan ve İnegöl Kent Müzesi'nde sergilenen seramikler tasnif edi-lerek değerlendirilecektir. Seramik buluntular arasında Hellenistik Dönem'e tarihlenen kırmızı/ siyah astarlı tabak, kase vb. günlük kullanıma ait parçalar, Roma Dönemi as-tarlı kaplarına ait parçalar, kandiller ve unguentarium, Bizans Dönemi sırlı kap parçaları yer almaktadır. Bizans seramikleri "Zeuksippus Ailesi" olarak tanınan grup içerisinde tasnifleyebileceğimiz örneklerdir. Tespit edilen bu se-ramik buluntuların çizimleri yapıldıktan sonra detaylı teknik bilgilerini içeren katalog çalışmaları tamamlanacaktır. Seramikler dönemlerine göre sınıflandı-rılarak, istatistiksel veriler sunulacaktır. Büyük ölçüde ince seramiklerden oluşan bu buluntuların İnegöl ilçe-sindeki Hellenistik, Roma ve Bizans Dönemleri yerleşimleri ile ilgili veriler sağlaması beklenmektedir.

lo studio qui presentato è incentrato sull’analisi del materiale ceramico oggetto esso stesso
di un interesse commerciale, come la ceramica fine da mensa, quella d’uso comune, quella da illuminazione
e, in misura minore, su alcuni contenitori che erano preposti, nella funzione primaria,
al trasporto di prodotti di natura organica ma che, in un momento successivo, potevano rientrare
in una rete commerciale che ne garantiva un utilizzo secondario, esemplificativo per molti di
essi il riutilizzo in contesti funerari o semplicemente tra il vasellame in uso per fini domestici.

Dionysiac Iconography on Hellenistic relief Bowls
by
Chara Andreidou


The present study was conducted during the years 1990-1994 and submitted and approved for the degree of Doctor of Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (date of final oral examination: June 1998). The subject of this study is the Dionysiac iconographic cycle on the Hellenistic moldmade relief bowls and the study examines all the samples of the category published until the day of its submission.
Although Hellenistic relief bowls are particularly popular and well represented in all Hellenistic sites, until the date of submission of this dissertation there was no study referring to the category as a whole, just reports in the context of publication from systematic excavations as well as thematic articles. The current study is the first attempt at a holistic approach to the category throughout its extremely broad geographical range of production and not divided into individual local aggregates, as was the case previously.
The  Dionysiac iconographical cycle was selected to serve as a pilot for the study of the category, because of its popularity. The Hellenistic relief bowls served as wine drinking cups used in banquets, therefore the illustration on their exterior surface largely draws its themes from a circle related to wine, banquet, and their god, Dionysus.
The examined material includes finds from all over the Hellenistic world, from its core as well as its most remote sites. To secure a safe conclusion, the material is furthermore limited to systematic excavation finding with – when possible – precise excavation data.
The method of approach is based on the identification of three stages in organizing the production:
- ceramic workshop
- local production center
- cycle of influence,
and the study of interconnections and interactions between them.
Besides, the studying approach was based on the identification of three phases in the iconographic process:
- stamp
- mold
- relief bowl,
as well as the corresponding division of labor in:
- stamp engraver
- mold decorator
- potter
- owner of the ceramic workshop,
without of course ruling out the possibility that the whole production process was done by only one person, at least in small workshops.
The research focuses on the study of groups of vessels made in a specific local production center. The iconographic approach of the material looks for those elements that compose the group of relief bowls with Dionysian motifs within the production of the center, the special features as well as the common points with relevant groups of other production centers. Also, the studying approach looks for the factors that led to the formation of the specific iconographic language, in some points common and in some so different from that of the other production centers.
The method of examining the groups of relief bowls from proven sites enabled us to understand the powerful role of a series of factors that form the physiognomy of every local production, either artistic or “craft”, in a specific period, factors with great influence over:
- the acceptance or rejection of a ceramic category in general, as well as of iconographic cycles and their motifs in particular, within a general historical, social, religious frame
- the qualitative and quantitative features of local production, correlated with the general political and economic frame
- the formation of its iconographic language.
The ancient sources offer particularly significant help in this area, by providing valuable information and leading to a better understanding of many aspects in the different stages of the process.
The study of the material is divided into two parts. In the beginning, there is an extensive introduction including the following fields:
- description of the ceramic category
- short review of the previous research
- possible origin of the category
- chronology
- geographical range of production
- manufacturing process
- use
- issues on the name of the category and a new proposal
- iconographic cycles and organization of the decoration
The first part of the present study examines the Dionysiac iconographic cycle and its motifs in each local production center or, if this is not possible, in each excavated site. Thus, all the production centers and all the sites with samples of Hellenistic relief bowls among their finding are examined. Emphasis is placed on those elements that compose the special iconographic language of each region of the vast Hellenistic world.
In the second part, each motif of the Dionysiac iconographic cycle is examined separately, as represented in the entire production of Hellenistic relief bowls. Emphasis is placed on those elements that either differentiate or unify the way each motif is treated in the various production centers of the category. In particular:
- elements that form the particular language of each region, shaped under the strong influence of the local iconographic tradition, the traditional cults, the impact degree of other centers, the inspiration derived by other categories of art, alongside with the entire economic, social and political context of the region
- elements that managed to exceed the narrow local frame, spread throughout the Hellenistic production, and form the group of eminent, basic features of the category regardless of geographical location and centers of production.
The study also proceeded to the identification of cycles of influence in production and decoration of the category, which, to a greater or lesser extent, affect the wares of the production centers or even of individual workshops.
The conclusions derived from this study are extensively presented at the end of this paper. We believe that the results justify the approaching method of the material and shed light on the following issues of this so well represented ceramic category:
- individual workshops or even individual potters, where possible
- local production centers
- “international” – concerning the Hellenistic world – cycles of influence.
In our opinion, the present study could serve as a pilot for a more comprehensive approach of the Hellenistic era, an era where the Hellenistic «κοινή»,  the Hellenistic common language, is not so “common” as believed and the homogeneity that is considered to be the most characteristic feature of the era, should eventually not be taken for granted.
The study of the numerous unpublished at that time material and the later rich findings has of course added – and will continue to add in the future – new data on the results of this paper, which may either confirm or partly subvert our conclusion. But this is more than expected in the study of a multifaceted, multilingual, multicultural, multilevel era such as the Hellenistic period.

La città umbra di Orvieto – l’etrusca Velzna, in seguito Volsinii per i popoli di lingua latina – si staglia sul territorio circostante dalla cima di una scoscesa rupe tufacea dominante la valle del fiume Paglia, affluente del Tevere, a un’altezza compresa entro 280 e 325 m s.l.m. In epoca classica e tardoantica l’estrema pendenza del pianoro rendeva praticamente inaccessibile l’area urbana, fungendo egregiamente da fortificazione naturale.

Dal 2000 sono condotte, su oltre tre ettari di superficie, campagne di scavo annuali dirette da Simonetta Stopponi. È ormai opinione diffusa tra etruscologi che a Campo della Fiera vada collocato il principale santuario federale degli Etruschi, rammentato cinque volte dallo storico romano Tito Livio e menzionato con l’appellativo di «Fanum Voltumnae»; pur senza specificarne la città ospitante, indizio dell’antica notorietà del luogo, la cui localizzazione, a lungo oggetto di dispute erudite, tornò in auge tra gli umanisti quattrocenteschi.

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Le ricerche d'archivio sono ancora in corso. L'obiettivo è quello di rintracciare i taccuini di scavo redatti in occasione degli interventi e delle indagini eseguite da S. L. agnello nell'area catacombale dove è stata localizzato il quartiere artigianale della città antica. 15 Vedi, infra, il contributo di G. Cacciaguerra. 16 Sono impegnati studenti e laureandi del corso di «metodologia, cultura materiale e produzioni artigianali nel mondo classico» di laurea magistrale in archeologia dell'

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The book brings to light the results of the first excavation in the old town of Trogir in 1978-1980, within the Trogir Town Museum (Garagnin - Fanfogna palace), with the contribution to the Hellenistic urbanism of central Dalmatia, and the description and analysis of more than 4000 recorded artefacts (mostly pottery, some lithic, glass, metal and stone finds) covering the time span from the Upper Paleolithic Period, Bronze and Iron Ages to Hellenistic, Roman and Medieval Period in Trogir/central Dalmatia.

Author: Ninina Cuomo di Caprio
Publication Date: October 31 2017
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Series: Manuali L'ERMA, 2
ISBN: 978-88-913-1012-5 (Print)
ISBN: 978-88-913-1014-9 (E-Book)
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 700, 260 ill. B/N
Size: 21 x 28 cm
From the Foreword by prof. David P. Peacock, University of Southampton, UK
This manual on pottery-making in antiquity is a compendium of almost everything bearing on the interpretation of ancient ceramics in antiquity Because of this, it is likely to remain a standard work for many years to come. Both the student and the more experienced researcher will benefit from this book and will find it easy to follow because of the lively presentation. The whole subject of ceramics is here, from clay acquisition to kilns and firing, backed with an extensive bibliography. It is a work of reference which should have a place on every archaeologist' s bookshelf from their first day at University until retirement
Part Two is titled Modern Laboratory Techniques and provides a summary of the most widely used scientific techniques which can aid the archaeologist in the understanding and interpretation of ancient ceramics.
Cuomo di Caprio, Ninina - Essential Bibliography:
1972 Proposta di classificazione delle fornaci per ceramica e laterizi nell'  area italiana, in Sibrium 11, 1971-72, pp. 371-464
1982 Ceramica rustica tradizionale in Puglia, Galatina, Lecce 1982
1985 La ceramica in archeologia. Antiche tecniche di lavorazione e moderne tecniche di analisi, Rome 1985 (reprinted 1988)
1992 Fornaci e officine da vasaio tardo ellenistiche, Morgantina Studies, vol. III, Princeton, New Jersey 1992
1993 La galleria dei falsi. Dal vasaio al mercato di antiquariato, Rome 1993
2007 Ceramica in archeologia 2. Antiche tecniche di lavorazione e moderne tecniche di analisi, (enlarged and revised 1985 edition), Rome      2007.

The first book in new series Paphos Agora Project is published! The volume presents the first results of the five years of research 2011-2015 in Paphos, UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Kristiansen, K. "From memory to monument: the construction of time in the Bronze Age". In: Lehoërff, A. (ed.) Construire le temps. Histoire et méthodes des chronologies et calendriers des derniers millénaires avant notre ère en Europe occidentale. Lille,

639 VIII ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ / FOREWORD | ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ Η επιστημονική έρευνα της αρχαίας Μακεδονίας τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες δημιούργησε νέα δεδομένα και έδωσε νέες προοπτικές στη μελέτη του ιστορικού αυτού χώρου. Οι συστηματικές ανασκαφές έφεραν στο φως έναν τεράστιο πλούτο πληροφοριών και πυροδότησαν το ενδιαφέρον όχι μόνον της ελληνικής αλλά και της διεθνούς επιστημονικής κοινότητας και κατ᾽ επέκταση του ευρύτερου παγκόσμιου κοινού.

The study of the pottery into the 21st century regards issues and problems that demand the collaboration of archaeologists
with various disciplines in order to be solved. As a sequence, Archaeology should employ sciences and through an interdisciplinary approach the most possible complete recognition, understanding and interpretation of the information hidden behind the sherds will be succeeded.
During the last decades the appropriate conditions for the interaction of the Archaeology with the physicochemical sciences have been created, due possibly also to the general expansion of technology in most scholarly fields. The result was the development of Archaeometry, a field that may contribute to the solution of various problems regarding the study of the pottery.
This paper focuses on the presentation of the possibilities offered by the Archaeometry to the study of the ancient Greek pottery. Through certain examples and questions, certain issues and problems such as dating, provenance, workshops, will be examined that can be approached with the contribution of the Archaeometry. In addition
the specific methods and techniques that can be applied in different cases will be presented.
Furthermore, various issues and possible information will be explored that can be extracted through the archaeometrical data. For example, the possibilities of Archaeometry in extending our knowledge in subjects such as the trade, economy and the social organization will be explored.

In the southern Levant, the Hellenistic Period officially began in August 332 BCE, when Alexander the Great successfully concluded his siege of Tyre and immediately turned south along the coast. In the few days that it took the Macedonian general to lead his troops to Gaza, Achaemenid control of the huge satrapy of The Land Beyond the River ceased and Macedonian rule began. “All of what is known as Syrian Palestine ... accepted Alexander’s control” reports the ancient historian Arrian (2.26), and he says no more about the thousands of people who lived through this momentous historical pivot point. This chapter provides a detailed, illustrated overview of the pottery of this entire region and era. Locally produced, household pottery is the single largest body of evidence relevant to reconstructing daily life throughout this region and era. Through this lens, one can read when and how the lifestyles of the peoples of Hellenistic Palestine changed.

The vast majority of papers (26) in the current volume stem from the international conference Sandanski and Its Territory during Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages: Current Trends in Archaeological Research, organized by the American Research Center in Sofia, in collaboration with the Archaeological Museum in Sandanski, and held on September 17-20, 2015 in the town of Sandanski. Financial support was provided by the Municipality of Sandanski, the Archaeological Museum in Sandanski and the American Research Center in Sofia.The conference provided a forum for 30 scholars from Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Austria and USA to discuss their latest research on the archaeology and history of the Sandanski region.The main theme uniting most papers presented during the conference had to do with the attempt to synthesize the available sources for the study of the Roman predecessor of present-day Sandanski – Ulpia Parthicopolis. Using this relatively little known Roman town, nestled in the corner of Southwest Bulgaria, as a case study, the aim was also to provide a holistic view of the complex history of the Sandanski region, from prehistory until the middle ages. In that the current volume builds on, and diverges from, the previously held symposia in Blagoevgrad (September 20-24, 1977) and Sandanski (October 1-4, 2002), which were defined by overarching themes while celebrating particular anniversaries; 2050 and 2075 years since the Slave Revolt led by Spartacus and 2000 years since the establishment of Christianity. Released from the ideological charge of the 20th century scholarship, the current volume faces the daunting task to weave organically the often disparate papers informed by theoretical paradigms of different scholarly traditions.The volume is divided into five sections to provide more visibility of particular topics, but also to articulate better the research results of a wide range of specialists – archaeologists, historians, epigraphers, art historians, numismatists and conservators. Four additional papers (D. Dana [in French], I. Boyanov, D. Garbov, E. Nankov & A. Tsoneva) were solicited after the conference in order to attain a better cohesion of the volume’s structure. Since navigating through the sometimes inconsistent designations of excavated plots within the present-day Sandanski can be a challenge, the volume includes two maps showing the locations of major sites discussed in some of the papers. The reader is invited to refer to them whenever they are in need of topographic information regarding a particular site.