Vessels and variety

Annette Rathje, Hanne Thomasen

"Addressing topics of production and distribution, iconography, regional studies, and museum collections, this volume sheds new and important light on perspectives in the fields of ancient pottery studies. The articles, substantial and well-illustrated, cover a wide span of time from the Geometric period and into the Roman period, including new results and material from excavations as well as new methodological approaches. The range of vessels and their varieties discussed include: Campana A pottery from the southern Levant and the Black Sea areas ; Oinotrian-Euboian pottery in a sanctuary context in Timpone della Motta near Sybaris in the Middle to Late Geometric periods ; Early Proto Corinthian aryballos in the western Mediterranean ; Greek imported and local pottery from the earliest times in Crotone's history ; iconographic history of the myth of Iphigenia from Athens to southern...