Pots for the Living, Pots for the Dead

by Marjatta Nielsen (Editor), B. Bundgaard Rasmussen (Editor), Annette Rathje (Editor)

Overview

A collection of eleven papers from a series of pottery workshops held between 1995 and 2000 at the Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology at Copenhagen University. Subjects include the Trojan cycle depicted on Tyrrhenian amphorae, Attic pottery imports to Locri Epizephyrii, Genucilia ceramics from Mid-Republican Italy, terracotta house models from Basilicata, Archaic Karian pottery, the distribution of local plain wares in the 6th-5th century BC, Cypriot transport amphorae, Cypriot sigillata, a fake phiale from the J F Willumsen Museum, pottery from the Archaic settlement at Vroulia, Rhodes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788772897127
Publisher:	Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date:	08/31/2002
Series:	Acta Hyperborea Series
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
	Pots for the Living, Pots for the Dead Were Pots Purpose-made for the Funeral or Reused? Can inscriptions throw light on the problem?	9
	The Trojan Cycle on Tyrrhenian Amphorae	33
	The Import of Attic Pottery to Locri Epizephyrii. A Case of Reinterpretation	59
	Genucilia--Small Plate with a large Range	83
	Terracotta House Models from Basilicata	101
	Archaic Karian Pottery--Investigating Culture?	127
	The Mediterranean and Central Europe in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The trade-route through the Rhone Valley in the light of discoveries of local plain wares	145
	Cypriot Transport Amphorae in the Archaic and Classical Period	169
	The Ontogenesis of Cypriot Sigillata	185
	A Phiale in the J.F. Willumsen Museum Collection--an Analysis of a Forgery	225