2 What Makes Aeginetan Cooking Pots So Special? Technological Choices in Ancient Aegina’s Pottery Production

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Editorial Board VI
4. Contents VII
5. Introduction
6. 1 The A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. Project and Beyond: Archaeology of Gesture and Material Consciousness in Ceramic Studies 1
7. Section I: The Shapes of Clay: Manufacturing and Local Traditions
8. 2 What Makes Aeginetan Cooking Pots So Special? Technological Choices in Ancient Aegina’s Pottery Production 13
9. 3 Production Relationships between Attic Black-glazed and Figured Pottery 25
10. 4 Potters in South Italian Red-Figured Workshops: An Overview 35
11. 5 Clay Crafting, Hand Modeling: A Coroplastic Perspective. Case-Studies from Sicily and Magna Graecia 49
12. 6 The Manufacture of “Thickened-edge” Roof Tiles between Unintentional Traces and Intentional Marks: The Case of the Hellenistic-Roman Temple in Agrigento 69
13. 7 Teanum Ware Pottery from Loc. Cappella Marcella (Castrocielo, Frosinone) 79
14. Section II: Populating the Ancient Pottery Industry
15. 8 Timing Euxitheos and Euphronios: Energetics and the Scale of Production in the Athenian Potters’ Quarters 91
16. 9 Reconstructing the Scale of Athenian Vase-Painting Workshops 111
17. 10 Potters’ Tools at the Kerameikos of Selinous 125
18. 11 Pottery Production in Pompeii, Step by Step: From Excavations to Experimental Archaeology 133
19. 12 Republican Kilns at Pollentia-Urbs Salvia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of a Local Ceramic Production 147
20. Section III: Workshop Recipies and Craft Production Systems: Technologies Magnified
21. 13 Magnific Magnification at Locri Epizephyrii: An Insight into the Surface of Western Red-figured Vases 157
22. 14 Examining the Red and Black Surfaces of Apulian Red-figured Pottery: Raw Materials and Technological Features 173
23. 15 Reconstructing Pottery Production in Archaic Rome and Latium: Integrating Traditional Approach and Archaeometry 183
24. 16 Black-glazed Pottery from Locri Epizephyrii: New Evidence from the Technological Study of the Local Hellenistic Production 193
25. 17 Roof Tiles with the ΣΩΣΗΝΟΣ Stamp: Calabrian Production in Sicily 199
26. 18 Preliminary Observations on the Interdisciplinary Project of Roman Amphorae from the Territory of Ostia 207
27. 19 A True Melting Pot: The Production of Cooking Ware at Fregellae, Southern Lazio (Italy), between the 4th and the 2nd Centuries B.C. 213
28. Section IV: From Invisible to Visible: Artisanal Gestures, Ontologies, and Ceramic Networks
29. 20 From Micro to Macro and Vice Versa: Technology Studies and Network Analysis on Red-figured Vase Production between Sicily and Campania 223
30. 21 The Craft of Centuripe Vases: Techniques, Colors, Patterns 241
31. 22 Kerameikos.org and Digital Accessibility for Ancient Greek Vases 255
32. 23 New Perspectives in the Study of Western Greek Amphorae 269
33. 24 Economic Principles in the Roman Economy: Modelling Mass Ceramic Production and Trade 285
34. 25 Looking for the Lost Decoration of an Apulian Volute Krater by the Painter of Sèvres 1 303
35. Section V: Craftspeople’s Mobility and Knowledge Transfer: Distribution and Statistics
36. 26 Technology Transfer and Mobility During the Period of Greek Migrations to Italy (8^th to 6^th Centuries B.C.): Insights from Coarse ware Pottery 313
37. 27 Regional Markets and Distribution Patterns of Laconian Pottery in Crete and Beyond: The Aeginetan Hypothesis (6^th–5^th Centuries B.C.) 327
38. 28 Consumers and Vases in Early South Italian Vase-Painting 347
39. 29 Hybridity and Exchange Models in Campania: The Case of Ionian Cups from Ancient Cumae 357
40. 30 East Greek Inspirations on Attic Black-figured Pottery: The Implications for Clients and Trade Networks 365
41. Epilogue
42. 31 Greek and Roman Ceramic Producers: Operational Knowledge and Networked Mobilities 373
43. List of Contributors 381