The Greeks in the East

The Greeks in the East

Villing, Alexandra 

Eight authoritative essays explore the changing relationships between the Greeks and their Eastern neighbours from the Bronze Age to the Classical period, examining archaeological evidence in the shape of pottery, wall-painting, sculpture, architecture, jewellery, seals, and inscriptions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including trade, settlements, and cultural and artistic interchange. They assess the actual presence of Minoans, Mycenaeans and later Greeks in the East and shed light on the economic and political interaction between Greeks and the peoples of Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Phoenicia, Syria, and Achaemenid Persia. Milestone contributions include the definitive survey and analysis of the recent excavations at the most important Greek Bronze Age site in Asia Minor, Miletus – now even surpassing Troy in significance – and in-depth studies and reports on scientific analyses of the pottery from the important trading port Al Mina, allowing a re-evaluation of its position in trade between Greece, Phoenicia and Syria.

Contributor

• Muller, Béatrice  ( Contributor )
  
• Collon, Dominique  ( Contributor )
  
• Lemos, Irene S.  ( Contributor )
  
• Lehmann, Gunnar  ( Contributor )
  
• Ashton, Sally-Ann  ( Contributor )
  
• Hughes, Michael  ( Contributor )
  
• Williams, Dyfri  ( Contributor )
  
• Curtis, John  ( Contributor )
  
• 
  

Date published

• 2005

Institution

• British Museum

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Villing, Alexandra
  

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591577

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

 

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Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry: Archaeology Archaeometry: 30 Years Later

Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry: Archaeology Archaeometry: 30 Years Later

Edited by Eleni Filippaki

The Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (HSA) was founded in 1982. It constitutes one of the oldest European associations dedicated to scientific archaeology with hundreds of registered members, both in Greece and abroad. The HSA’s main concern is to promote the application of science and technology in archaeology, history of art, and other fields related to cultural heritage.

The 7th Symposium of the HSA took place in autumn 2019 (October 9-12) at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. Its theme was ‘Archaeology-Archaeometry, 30 years on’, chosen to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the 1st Symposium of HSA back in 1990, which bore the emblematic title ‘Linking Archaeology and Archaeometry’. During the 3-day symposium, more than 100 original and stimulating papers were presented orally and/or in poster form. This volume of proceedings includes a representative selection of contributions, covering a wide range of fields in archaeological science, such as provenance and technology of archaeomaterials, geo- and bio-archaeology, dating and landscape studies, as well as papers illuminating the origins of archaeometry in Greece.

H 290 x W 205 mm

406 pages

Illustrated throughout in colour

Published Aug 2024

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803277325

Digital: 9781803277332

DOI 10.32028/9781803277325

Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum

Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum

Perkins, Philip

Bucchero is the most distinctive class of ceramic produced in Etruria, Italy, between the 7th and the 5th centuries BC. This publication aims to provide a complete up-to-date listing and description of the collection of bucchero in the British Museum; a collection that consists of over three hundred items including examples of all the important regional productions of bucchero. A previous partial publication of the collection in 1932 is now out-dated and in need of replacement. In addition to being a new, complete, fully referenced and illustrated catalogue, technical aspects of the production of the vessels have been meticulously studied in order to reconstruct a working sequence – detailing the steps in the manufacture of each vase. A final important contribution of the study is the investigation of the formation of the collection, which dates back to 1756, and the history of the study of bucchero.

Date published

• 2007

Institution

• British Museum

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Perkins
  

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591657

Official URL

• https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/rp-165-etruscan-bucchero-in-the-british-museum.html

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

 

Tell Dafana reconsidered: the archaeology of an Egyptian frontier town

Tell Dafana reconsidered: the archaeology of an Egyptian frontier town 

 Leclère, François and A. Jeffrey Spencer 

This publication arises from a British Museum research project to consider the relationship between Egypt and Archaic Greece from the seventh century BC down to the fifth, through a re-assessment of the site of ancient Daphnae (now known as Tell Dafana) in the Nile Delta of Egypt. A great quantity of antiquities was discovered at the site in excavations directed by Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1886 and the majority are in the British Museum’s collection, while others are widely distributed in other institutions. The presence of not only Egyptian products but also of fine Greek painted pottery generated much interest in the nature of this town close to the eastern frontier of Egypt. In this book, study of the finds has been combined with a reconsideration of the architecture of the monuments excavated at the site to determine the extent of any Archaic Greek influence and whether Petrie’s interpretation of the ancient town as a camp for Greek troops is supported by the evidence.

Contributor

• Johnston, Alan
  
• Weber, Sabine
  
• Abd el-Maksoud,, Mohamed
  
• Ashmawy Ali, Aiman
  
• Abd el-Aleem, Al-Sayed
  
• Hussein, Hisham
  
• Nur el-Din, Mustafa
  
• Spataro, Michela  ( )
  
• Stacey, Rebecca
  
• Tanimoto, Satoko
  
• Craddock, Paul
  
• 
  

Date published

• 2014

Institution

• British Museum

Project name

• Egyptian–Greek Relations at Daphnae (Nile Delta) in the Seventh Century BC

Funder

Name: Leverhulme Trust 

Editor

• Leclère, François
  
• Spencer, Jeffrey
  

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591992

Official URL

• https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/tell-dafana-reconsidered-the-archaeology-of-an-egyptian-frontier-town.html

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass

Entwistle, Cris and  James. Liz

Mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive, yet we know next to nothing about how they were made. Glass-making was a relatively sophisticated skill in the mediaeval world, yet no written documents survive from Byzantium about the methods used for making a mosaic or creating its tesserae, and we have no knowledge of the ways in which manufacturing patterns existed and changed over time, or, indeed, of where and exactly how tesserae were created. Only the mosaics themselves speak to their composition. Glass making and glass working were two distinct processes: did the differently coloured glass tesserae on one site all come from the same batch of raw glass? Where did that raw glass come from? The nature of the actual colours used in making mosaics changed over time: is this simply a question of changing aesthetics or are there also technical explanations for these alterations? In discussing questions like these, the volume explores issues around the technical production of glass and medieval artistic practices, whilst also opening up wider debates about the nature of trade and exchange within the Mediterranean during this period and into our understanding of political and social changes within the Mediterranean world. The volume cuts across art history, archaeology, chemistry, physics and Byzantine studies, bringing together a range of scholars from Europe and America interested in the chemical and physical analysis of Byzantine glass together with those concerned with the formal and cultural aspects of Byzantine mosaics in order to reappraise mosaics and mosaic making in this interdisciplinary context.

 

Contributor

• Marii, Fatma  ( Contributor )
  
• Conventi, Alberto  ( Contributor )
  
• Neri, Elisabetta  ( Contributor )
  
• Verita, Marco  ( Contributor )
  
• Witte, Hanna  ( Contributor )
  
• Fiori, Cesare  ( Contributor )
  
• Muscolino, Cetty  ( Contributor )
  
• Schibille, Nadine  ( Contributor )
  
• Tedeschi, Claudia  ( Contributor )
  
• Arletti, Rossella  ( Contributor )
  
• Loukopoulou, Polytimi  ( Contributor )
  
• Moropoulou, Antonia  ( Contributor )
  
• Stern, E. Marianne  ( Contributor )
  
• Lierke, Rosemarie  ( Contributor )
  
• Elsner, Jaś  ( Contributor )
  
• Howells, Daniel Thomas  ( Contributor )
  
• Meek, Andrew  ( Contributor )
  
• Corby Finney, Paul  ( Contributor )
  
• Fletcher, Philip  ( Contributor )
  
• Röhrs, Stefan  ( Contributor )
  
• Antonaras, Anastassios  ( Contributor )
  
• Terry, Ann  ( Contributor )
  
• Nesbitt, Claire  ( Contributor )
  
• Bolgia, Claudia  ( Contributor )
  
• Vassilaki, Maria  ( Contributor )
  
• Dell’Acqua, Francesca  ( Contributor )
  
• Cormack, Robin  ( Contributor )
  
• Chatzidakis, Nano  ( Contributor )
  
• Kotoula, Dimitra  ( Contributor )
  
• Kakissis, Amalia G.  ( Contributor )
  
• Andreescu-Treadgold, Irina  ( Contributor )
  
• McKenzie, Judith S.  ( Contributor )
  
• Soproni, Emőke  ( Contributor )
  
• Bjørnholt, Bente  ( Contributor )
  
• Pilosi, Lisa  ( Contributor )
  
• Whitehouse, David  ( Contributor )
  
• Bentley, Paul  ( Contributor )
  
• 
  

Date published

• 2013

Institution

• British Museum

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Entwistle, Chris
  
• James, Liz
  

Pagination

• 364

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591794

Official URL

• https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/new-light-on-old-glass-recent-research-on-byzantine-mosaics-and-glass.html

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

 

‘Intelligible Beauty’: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery

‘Intelligible Beauty’: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery 

Entwistle, Chris and Adams Noël

The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th–15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention is to draw together the many strands involved in this research and to publish them in accessible form. The papers fall into three discrete areas. There is the issue of centralisation as opposed to regionalisation and workshop activities within the major metropolitan centres of the eastern empire – Constantinople, Antioch and Alexandria. A further theme to be explored is how and whether it is possible to identify individual workshop production through both art-historical and technical analysis. The second section of papers focuses on the key questions of acculturation and mimesis between Early Byzantium and neighbouring cultures such as the Avars, Lombards and Visigoths; and the third section looks at analogous issues between the medieval Byzantine empire and the Slavs, Rus, Turcs and Fatimids. A number of the papers examine the relationships, both technical and stylistic, between Middle Byzantine and Islamic jewellery which will hopefully lead to a greater understanding of the cultural interconnections between these two great medieval cultures.

Contributor

• László Toth, Bálint  ( Contributor )
  
• Spier, Jeffrey  ( Contributor )
  
• Stolz, Yvonne  ( Contributor )
  
• Yeroulanou, Aimilia  ( Contributor )
  
• Drauschke, Jörg  ( Contributor )
  
• Daim, Falko  ( Contributor )
  
• Ager, Barry  ( Contributor )
  
• Christie, Neil  ( Contributor )
  
• Baldini Lippolis, Isabella  ( Contributor )
  
• Eger, Christoph  ( Contributor )
  
• Bálint, Csanád  ( Contributor )
  
• Szymon Szmoniewski;, Bartłomiej  ( Contributor )
  
• Bollók, Ádám  ( Contributor )
  
• Parani, Maria G.  ( Contributor )
  
• Albani, Jenny  ( Contributor )
  
• Pekarska, Ljudmila  ( Contributor )
  
• Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Antje  ( Contributor )
  
• Mcleod, Bet  ( Contributor )
  
• 
  

Date published

• 2010

Institution

• British Museum

Funder

Name: Thaw Charitable Trust 

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Entwistle, Chris
  
• Adams, Noël
  

Pagination

• 246

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591787

Official URL

• https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/intelligible-beauty.html

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike