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Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone

  • Alexandra Pappas
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Panhellenes at Methone
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Abstract

With a focus on the 7th-century BCE inscribed pots from Methone, this chapter aims to clarify methodological and theoretical approaches to early Greek inscribed objects by keeping the interrelationship between form, function, and content in balanced consideration. It illustrates the complexities inherent in assessing the relationship between the function of an object, the form of its inscription(s), and the content of its inscription(s), and urges careful consideration of each. It is argued that there is overall a symbiosis between the form and content of an inscription and the object’s function and use - whether for drinking vessels or for transport or storage vessels - and it is preliminarily suggested that this analysis of early alphabetic inscriptions may apply equally to early non-alphabetic inscriptions.

Abstract

With a focus on the 7th-century BCE inscribed pots from Methone, this chapter aims to clarify methodological and theoretical approaches to early Greek inscribed objects by keeping the interrelationship between form, function, and content in balanced consideration. It illustrates the complexities inherent in assessing the relationship between the function of an object, the form of its inscription(s), and the content of its inscription(s), and urges careful consideration of each. It is argued that there is overall a symbiosis between the form and content of an inscription and the object’s function and use - whether for drinking vessels or for transport or storage vessels - and it is preliminarily suggested that this analysis of early alphabetic inscriptions may apply equally to early non-alphabetic inscriptions.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Table of Contents IX
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
  6. Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE 9
  7. The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone 20
  8. To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean 36
  9. Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece 105
  10. Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” 123
  11. Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
  12. From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet 135
  13. Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone 165
  14. Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō 182
  15. Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO 219
  16. The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet 232
  17. Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) 242
  18. Part III: Graphê and Culture
  19. Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories 261
  20. Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone 285
  21. Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet 309
  22. Bibliography and Abbreviations 329
  23. Notes on Contributors 360
  24. General Index 365
  25. Index Locorum 374
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110515695-015

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Table of Contents IX
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
  6. Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE 9
  7. The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone 20
  8. To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean 36
  9. Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece 105
  10. Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” 123
  11. Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
  12. From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet 135
  13. Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone 165
  14. Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō 182
  15. Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO 219
  16. The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet 232
  17. Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) 242
  18. Part III: Graphê and Culture
  19. Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories 261
  20. Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone 285
  21. Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet 309
  22. Bibliography and Abbreviations 329
  23. Notes on Contributors 360
  24. General Index 365
  25. Index Locorum 374
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