The late Hellenistic period, spanning the 2nd and early 1st centuries BC, was a time of great tumult and violence thanks to nearly incessant warfare. At the same time, the period saw the greatest expansion of Hellenistic Greek culture, including ceramics. Papers in this volume explore problems of ceramic chronology (often based on evidence dependent on the violent nature of the period), survey trends in both production and consumption of Hellenistic ceramics particularly in Asia Minor and the Pontic region, and assess the impact of Hellenistic ceramic culture across much of the eastern Mediterranean and into the Black Sea.
Author(s): Pia Guldager Bilde, Mark L. Lawall (eds.)
Series: Black Sea Studies, 16
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Pages: 388
Preface
Introduction / Pia Guldager Bilde and Mark L. Lawall
Chronology
Typology
Ceramics and Culture
Globalisation and the 2nd century BC
Notes
Part 1. Chronologies
The Contribution of Inscriptions to the Chronology of Rhodian Amphora Eponyms / Nathan Badoud
The priests of Halios versus the amphora eponyms
The possibilities and limitations of the traditional dating methods
What can we learn from inscriptions?
Notes
The Lower City of Olbia Pontike Occupation and Abandonment in the 2nd Century BC / M. L. Lawall, P. Guldager Bilde, L. Bjerg, S. Handberg, J. M. Højte
Datable artefacts
Patterns of accumulation and discard
Crises and abandonments at Olbia
Notes
Bridging the Gap: Local Pottery Production in Corinth 146-44 BC / Sarah James
Past research on the interim period
The Panayia Field floor deposit
Post-146 BC local pottery in the floor deposit?30
Trends in Late Hellenistic Corinthian pottery
Interim material from the South Stoa wells
Linear Leaf mouldmade bowls
Conclusion
Notes
A Re-examination of some of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth / Guy D. R. Sanders, Yuki Miura & Lynne Kvapil
Historical considerations
Edwards’ methodology
South Stoa Well fills
Conclusion
Notes
Sulla and the Pirates / Susan I. Rotroff
The evidence
Athens
Delos
Maison des Sceaux, Maison de l’Epée, insulae of the Maison des Bronzes and Maison des Bijoux
Insula of the Maison des Comédiens
Well in the Maison du Lac
Sites with two stratigraphically distinct deposits
The taberna vinaria
Building F/NIΠ
The Street north of the Avenue of the Lions (henceforth, the Street Deposits)
The oil press
Discussion
Fine wares
West Slope ware
Eastern sigillata A
Proto-ESB
Pergamene sigillata
Plain wares
Piriform lagynos
Pedestal unguentarium
Cooking ware
Form 7 chytra
Conclusion
Notes
Part 2. Typology
Mouldmade Relief Bowls from Ephesos – The Current State of Research / Christine Rogl
Introduction
The study of mouldmade bowls at Ephesos
Hellenistic pottery in Ephesos: history of research
Basic material, goals and results of the study
The Mouldmade Bowls of Ephesos
Moulds
Signatures
Types of bottom rosettes
Types of profiles
Fabrics
Decoration and motifs
Repertoire of forms, technical details and extraordinary pieces
Phases of production and identifiable workshops
Bowls of the “Early Ephesian” production
Bowls of the so-called ΠΑΡ-monogram atelier or ΠΑΡ-workshop
Bowls of the “succeeding” or “smaller” workshops
Bowls of the “latest” workshops or the end of production
Details
Scale of manufacture – exports, imitations and local production
Notes
The Hellenistic Mouldmade Bowl Production at Priene – A Case Study Concerning the Reception of Ephesian Examples / Nina Fenn
Introduction
History of research
Context A
Context B
Characteristics of the local mouldmade bowls
Fabrics
Motif repertoire
Main decoration zone, floral bowls
Typical leaf
Lotus flower
Ship (Fig. 5.9)
Palm tree (Fig. 5.5)
Eagle
Main decoration zone, other motifs
Middle zone
Rim zone
Mouldmade bowls imported from Ephesos
Main decorative zone, floral bowls
Imbricate bowls
Long-petal bowls
Bowls with other decoration
Middle zones
Rim zones
Conclusion
Notes
Table Ware from Knidos: The Local Production during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC / Patricia Kögler
Notes
Hellenistic Pottery from the Necropolis of Olbia Pontike 1 / Georgij Lomtadze & Denis Žuravlev
Grave 34
Grave 41
Grave 25
Grave 35
Grave 39
Overall conclusions
Notes
West Slope Pottery from Mesambria Pontike / Anelia Bozkova
Pottery of East Aegean origin or of East Aegean type
S-shaped kantharoi
Skyphoi
Skyphoi with a concave decorative panel under the rim and ribbed lower body
Straight-walled skyphoi
Skyphoi with incised line decoration
Cups with interior decoration
Cups with palmettes and/or dolphins
Cup with a relief star and decorated walls
Amphorae and oinochoai
Kraters
Unguentaria
Pontic pottery
Kantharoi with particularly elongated proportions
Squat cylindrical skyphoi
Conclusion
Notes
A Pontic Group of Hellenistic Mouldmade Bowls / Aneta Petrova
Technology
Shape
Decoration
Distribution
Date
Origin
Conclusion
Notes
Imports and Local Imitations of Hellenistic Pottery in the Northwest Black Sea Area: Hadra and Pseudo-Hadra Wares / Vasilica Lungu & Pierre Dupont
Hadra style pottery: definition
Shapes and fabrics
Decorative motifs
Myrtle crown
Scroll or large-scale garland
Ivy garland
Floral garlands
Large leaf garland
Running waves
Bead and reel (astragal)
Hanging beads (necklace)
Net pattern
Cross-in-square with arrowhead fillers
Chronology of the Pseudo-Hadra vases
Pontic responses to Hadra hydriai
Archaeometry (P.D.)
Notes
Late Hellenistic Pottery and Lamps from Pantikapaion: Recent Finds
Denis Žuravlev & Natalia Žuravleva
Introduction
Imported mouldmade bowls
Bosporan mouldmade bowls
Pergamene sigillata and vessels with appliqué relief decoration
Other groups of imported sigillata
Late West Slope Ware
Pelikai with mouldmade body decorated with long petals
Bosporan sigillata
Unusual relief vessel (terracotta altar?)
Bosporan wheel-made lamps
Imported relief lamps
Local relief lamps
Conclusions
Notes
Late Hellenistic Red-Slip Ware in Olbia / Valentina V. Krapivina
Jugs
Bowls-cups
Bowl-cups are more numerous, especially of type 1.
Cups
Bases
Plates
Skyphoi
Kraters
Beakers
Lekanides
Saltcellars
Conclusion
Notes
Part 3. Ceramics and Culture
Pots and Politics: Reflections on the Circulation of Pottery in the Ptolemaic and Seleukid Kingdoms / John Lund
Prolegomena
Pottery produced within the Seleukid kingdom
The mouldmade bowls of Antiocheia
Eastern Sigillata A
Pottery and faience vessels produced in the Ptolemaic kingdom
The Ptolemaic queen’s oinochoai
Cypriot Sigillata
Pottery produced outside the Ptolemaic and Seleukid kingdoms
Gnathia vases
'Hadra vases'
Greco-Italic amphorae of Will type 1a
Rhodian transport amphorae
Preliminary conclusions
Notes
Dining In State: The Table Wares from the Persian-Hellenistic Administrative Building at Kedesh / Andrea Berlin, Sharon Herbert, and Peter Stone
Notes
Les campaniennes A et B, deux aspects d’une ‘globalisation’ économique et culturelle des céramiques tardo-hellénistiques / Jean-Paul Morel
Les céramiques en elles-mêmes
La campanienne A
La campanienne B
Deux aspects d’une globalisation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors