Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora (Hesperia Supplement 31)

396 Pages·2003·35.98 MB·English

by  John K. Papadopoulos

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Hesperia Supplement 31
The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the
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Coverphotograph:The City of Theseus, by Petros Moraites, ca. 1865-1870.
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Ceramicus redivivus : the early Iron Age potters' field in the area of
the classical Athenian agora /John K. Papadopoulos.
p. cm.-(Hesperia Supplement ;31)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-87661-531-0 (alk. paper)

1.Agora (Athens, Greece) 2. Athens (Greece)-Antiquities.
3. Pottery, Greece-Greece-Athens. 4. Iron age-Greece-Athens.
I. Title. 11. Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.). Supplement ;31.
For myparents,
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and
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CONTENTS

ix
xvii
xix
Chapter1
INTRODUCTION
Chapter2
THEMATERIAL ITSCONTEXT:
AND
SELECTCATALOGUEEARLYIRONAGE
OF
TEST-PIECES OTHERPOTTERSD'EBRIS
AND
AREA CLASSICAALGORA
FROM THE OF THE
Chapter3
THEMATERIAL ITSINTERPRETATION:
AND
NOTES POTTERSR'E FUSE
ON THE FROM THE
AREAOF THE CLASSICAALG ORAAN D THE
FIRINGOF ATHENIANPOTTERY 191
Chapter4
TEST-PIECESLATERPERIODS:
IN
CATALOGUE DISCUSSION
AND
Chapter5
CERAMICURESD IVIVUSA: CONTRIBUTION
TO
THE TOPOGRAPHSICTUADLYO F EARLYA THENS 271
Appendix
ESTIMATION CERAMIFCI RINGTEMPERATURES
OF
MEANS THERMOMECHAANNIACLAYLSIS
BY OF
by Michael R. Schilling 317

ILLUSTRATIONS

The area of the Athenian Agora in 1959 after the reconstruction
of the Stoa of Attalos
Plan of early Athens showing the Acropolis, the original Kera-
meikos, including the cemeteries of the Mycenaean and Early
Iron Age periods, and the likely location of the Old Agora
Section through typical well
Plan of the area of the Classical Agora showing deposits with
significant Early Iron Age potters' refuse
Selection of potters' test-pieces published in Farnsworth 1960,
p. 75, pl. 16
Sketch showing method of handling test-piece
Selected Corinthian pinakes from Penteskouphia
Modern potter's tools: a) poker; b) slice; c) tongs
Piccolpasso 1548, folio 34, various potters' tools (vedetta, caccia
bragie,forcina, trainello)
Piccolpasso 1548, folio 35, the firing of a potter's kiln
Piccolpasso 1548, folio 29, the firing of the kiln and the use of
the trainello
Piccolpasso 1548, folio 50, potter extracting test-piece from the
top of the kiln
Fragmentary maiolica dish used as a test-piece for lustre firing
Two fragmentary test-pieces from Deruta, late 15th century, used
to test the second or gloss firing of maiolica
Test-piece from Deruta, 16th-17th century, as previous
Fragmentary test-piece of a plate from Deruta, early 16th century,
used to test the third or lustre firing of maiolica
As previous
Ancient Chinese test-pieces from Shanxi Province
The Kolonos Agoraios and the Athenian Acropolis, ca. 1870