Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE
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Antonis Kotsonas
Abstract
Amongst the exceptionally rich finds recovered from the “Ypogeio” of Methone was a large assemblage of Aegean and other transport amphorae of the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods. The importance of this assemblage, which lies in the quantity and range of amphora types represented, and also in their early date, stimulated the project discussed in this paper, which implements interdisciplinary research protocols. This project proposes a holistic approach to Greek transport amphorae combining typological and epigraphical evidence with the results of petrographic and elemental analyses on the provenance of these vessels, and of organic residue analysis on their content. This approach can reshape our understanding of the production and distribution of transport amphorae, and also of trade and economy in early Greece.
Abstract
Amongst the exceptionally rich finds recovered from the “Ypogeio” of Methone was a large assemblage of Aegean and other transport amphorae of the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods. The importance of this assemblage, which lies in the quantity and range of amphora types represented, and also in their early date, stimulated the project discussed in this paper, which implements interdisciplinary research protocols. This project proposes a holistic approach to Greek transport amphorae combining typological and epigraphical evidence with the results of petrographic and elemental analyses on the provenance of these vessels, and of organic residue analysis on their content. This approach can reshape our understanding of the production and distribution of transport amphorae, and also of trade and economy in early Greece.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Table of Contents IX
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
- Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE 9
- The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone 20
- To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean 36
- Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece 105
- Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” 123
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Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
- From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet 135
- Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone 165
- Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō 182
- Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO 219
- The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet 232
- Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) 242
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Part III: Graphê and Culture
- Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories 261
- Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone 285
- Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet 309
- Bibliography and Abbreviations 329
- Notes on Contributors 360
- General Index 365
- Index Locorum 374
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Table of Contents IX
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
- Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE 9
- The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone 20
- To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean 36
- Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece 105
- Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” 123
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Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
- From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet 135
- Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone 165
- Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō 182
- Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO 219
- The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet 232
- Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) 242
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Part III: Graphê and Culture
- Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories 261
- Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone 285
- Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet 309
- Bibliography and Abbreviations 329
- Notes on Contributors 360
- General Index 365
- Index Locorum 374
