Panhellenes at Methone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)

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Panhellenes at Methone

Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)

Edited by: Jenny Strauss Clay , Irad Malkin and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Volume 44 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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This volume discusses the multidimensional aspects of the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted.

The 191 vessels were unearthed during excavations in ancient Methone in Pieria, the oldest colony of Greeks from Eretria in the north according to tradition. The Methone find is unique for two reasons. First, most of the pottery dates between 730 and 700 BCE, a period from which very few examples of Greek writing survives. And second, inscribed ceramics, scratched or painted, are extremely rare in Macedonia.

This new evidence of inscribed pottery from Methone is invaluable for classical studies, and the papers of this volume contribute notably to current discussions about: the Greeks and the Greek language in Macedonia; the Greek colonization; the pottery trade and the early Greek transport amphoras; trade, the symposium, and other contexts for the development of writing; the ‘alphabets’ of Methone and the introduction of the alphabet in Greece; the dialect(s) of Methone in relation to the Greek dialects; early Greek writing, literacy, and literary beginnings.

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J. Strauss Clay, Univ. of Virginia, USA; I. Malkin, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel; Y. Tzifopoulos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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"This volume is a sample of how the material retrieved from an underground storage in a colony in Macedonia is of surprisingly great value for scholars in different disciplines and for our understanding of the ancient Greek world and language in general."
Natalia Elvira Astoreca in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.02.32

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Graphê and Archaeology
Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE Antonis Kotsonas, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Xenia Charalambidou, Maria Roumpou, Noémi Suzanne Müller and Matthaios Bessios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone Nota Kourou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean John K. Papadopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece Samuel Verdan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” Alan Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Part II: Graphê, Alphabet, Dialect, and Language
From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet Richard Janko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone Francesca Dell’Oro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō Roger D. Woodard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO Christina Skelton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) Julián Méndez Dosuna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	242
Part III: Graphê and Culture
Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories Niki Oikonomaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone Alexandra Pappas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Wine and the Early History of the Greek Alphabet Marek Węcowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Bibliography and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	360
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374

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eBook published on:

April 10, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9783110515695

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April 10, 2017

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110501278

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

377

Illustrations:

56

Coloured Illustrations:

44

Tables:

4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110515695

eBook ISBN: 9783110515695

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110501278

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Greek inscriptions; Greek alphabet; trade

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Classical scholars, epigraphers, historians, archeologists, linguists.

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