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The collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki comprise antiquities that come from scientifically conducted excavations but also from donations of private collections, one of the most significant and sizeable one being that... more
The Museum of Lies as subproject to the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum Project (shared between the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil) collects fictional stories inspired by... more
Thinking by means of life stories can help us to trace out radically new dimensions in phenomena we think we already know well. Here I bring a biographical lens to a collection of plaster casts of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture created for... more
divinatory, religious, legal, and medical responses developed to mitigate the impact of epidemics, despite the lack of direct evidence for an institutionalized veterinary profession.
La ‘città di fuori’. La (ri)scoperta dell’ingrottamento di via Tevere a Siracusa (VIII-VI sec. a.C.)
This paper is the preliminary investigation of the so-called ‘ingrottamento’ deposit (late 8th- mid-6th century BCE). The ‘ingrottamento’ and its archaeological assemblage were retrieved in 1968 within the archaeological complex of Via... more
Τα μετάλλια και τα παράσημα, πέρα από την αισθητική και τεχνική τους αξία, συνιστούν ιστορικά τεκμήρια ιδιαίτερης σημασίας και πυκνού συμβολισμού. Μέσα από τις παραστάσεις τους αποτυπώνουν γεγονότα, πρόσωπα, μνήμες και αξίες, συνθέτοντας... more
[Spanish] En este volumen presentamos el conjunto inédito de cerámicas griegas procedentes del oppidum de Torrevieja, en la actual Villamartín (Cádiz), cuyo estudio se ha llevado a cabo directamente con los materiales en el Museo... more
The authors note that ancient Athens, in important ways, connected children, toys, and play. But they also find the scholarship of toys sparse and scattered. They discuss obstacles that can skew our modern view of the Greek mind, and they... more
Cerro Macareno is a tell located at the northern rim of the ancient estuary of the Guadalquivir River in a geostrategic spot, next to a navigable canal and at a key crossroads. The settlement was inhabited apparently without hiatuses... more
Las cuencas del Bajo Vinalopó y del Bajo Segura fueron una de las áreas más estratégicas de la península ibérica en la Antigüedad. Hacia el 500 a. C. este territorio sufre profundos cambios: hacia el 525 a. C. desaparecen la colonia... more
H μερική ή ολική ανατύπωση είτε η καθ' οιονδήποτε τρόπο αναπαραγωγή του βιβλίου, καθώς και η φωτοτύπηση τμήματος ή ολόκληρου του βιβλίου, χωρίς την έγγραφη άδεια του εκδότη τιμωρείται από το νόμο. known or hereafter invented, including... more
This paper considers the processes that contributed to the creation of an Athenian red-figure rhyton in the form of an Amazon, signed by the potter Sotades, which was excavated in Nubia in 1921. Despite its secure archaeological... more
Maria Chidiroglou, The ancient cemeteries of Karystos, Euboea. Data from the study of finds. A number of cemeteries of the ancient city of Karystos were excavated in previous years by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Euboea. The excavated... more
The paper focuses on the image-text correlation on the foundry cup in Berlin. Each of the three scenes of this famous vase contains a kalos inscription. One of them mentions a proper name: on side A of the cup a certain Diogenes is called... more
An obituary for Jean-Pierre Olivier, with a focus on his work on ancient Cypriot epigraphy.
Ceramic vases tend to break. If a damaged vase is not considered unsalvageable, it may be mended for the same purpose (reuse) or modified for a different function or use (reutilization). The latter may involve intentional breakage... more
Αυτό το άρθρο εξετάζει εννέα στεφάνια, τα οποία βρέθηκαν σε κιβωτιόσχημους τάφους στην περιοχή του Φοίνικα Θεσσαλονίκης. Ήρθαν στο φως το1987 και παραμένουν σε αξιοσημείωτα καλή κατάσταση. Επικεντρώνεται κυρίως σε τέσσερα στεφάνια που... more
Les Cahiers du Centre d'études chypriotes sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution -Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale -Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 4.0 International.
Tavira insere-se num contexto específico que se designa consensualmente por Circuito do Estreito e que poderá englobar uma teia complexa de mercados, estabelecida com continuidade até ao período Romano. A sua importância está ligada a um... more
Il ratto d'Europa* Nel 2001, per i tipi de Il Mulino, viene pubblicato un libro di Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, economista e politico italiano di profonde convinzioni europeiste, tra l'altro Ministro dell'economia e delle finanze nel governo... more
The investigations conducted on some tombs in Banditaccia’s Necropolis have returned useful information on the wall decorations that were thought to be completely lost and on the execution technique. Certainly, the tombs were richly... more
several alternatives given a certain set of restrictions. In the Odyssey he specifically wrote about the minimum cost choice. This kind of problem, as is well known, is at the heart of the neoclassical economics. We can therefore consider... more
Η βρετανική πολιτιστική διπλωματία στην Ελλάδα το διάστημα 1945-1967 στο πλαίσιο του Πολιτιστικού Ψυχρού Πολέμου, έτσι όπως σχεδιάζεται και εφαρμόζεται κυρίως από το Βρετανικό Συμβούλιο και σε συνεργασία με τη Βρετανική Πρεσβεία στην... more
Sovvertire la cronologia in Italia?
For the Love of Gods: Eroticism, Pursuit, and the Divine in the Art of Selinunte In 2025, the IFA-NYU/UniMi mission at the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte discovered a fragment of an Attic white-ground lekythos during excavations in the... more
Il cratere è stato attribuito da Arthur Dale Trendall (Trendall 1967, p. 102, n. 534) al Pittore di Dolone, cui rimandano sia la decorazione accessoria, con il caratteristico fregio di palmette e mezzelune, sia quella figurata;... more
Il cratere è stato attribuito da Arthur Dale Trendall (Trendall 1967, p. 102, n. 534) al Pittore di Dolone, cui rimandano sia la decorazione accessoria, con il caratteristico fregio di palmette e mezzelune, sia quella figurata;... more
The "Castelgiorgio Painter" is an anonymous figure of ancient Attic pottery, known for a cup found in Castelgiorgio in the Volsiniensis area (Bolsena), active in the 5th century BC, belonging to a small circle of ceramic artists from... more
The article presents an attic red-figure kylix (type B) housed in the National Archaeological Museum (inv. no. 33192), which comes from the excavations conducted in the area south of the Olympieion by the then director of the Epigraphic... more
In 1983 Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux and François Lissarrague, in 1986 – John Boardman and Donna Kurtz, in 1995 – Marie-Hélène Delavaud-Roux, in 1999 – Margaret Miller… many scholars studied the subject ‘a youth in a bonnet’ in Attic black-... more
Pottery – especially fine ware – of the Hellenistic period presents an impressive level of homogeneity mainly observed in the shapes and types of decoration employed. This common ceramic language, already noted by a number of researchers,... more
The investigations conducted on some tombs in Banditaccia’s Necropolis have returned useful information on the wall decorations that were thought to be completely lost and on the execution technique. Certainly, the tombs were richly... more
Oltre ai παῖδες καλοί, la ceramica greca registra meno convenzionali παῖδες καλαί, nonché καλοί inaspettati. Di un paio di questi casi voglio trattare, in tema con il dedicatario. Non è superfluo dichiarare che a quanto scrivo si applica... more
Viaggio per immagini nell'archeologia d'età etrusca della Valle del Serchio e, in particolare, della Piana di Lucca. Si presentano soprattutto i rapporti fra paesaggio, con il ruolo dominante del corso dell'Auser, e insediamenti.
Risorse, officine e produzioni metallurgiche nell'Appennino centro-settentrionale durante il primo millennio a.C. Risorse, officine e produzioni metallurgiche nell'Appennino centro-settentrionale durante il primo millennio a.C. Risorse,... more
In this paper we present a set of Greek pottery imports from the Iron Age site of Mesas de Asta (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz) recovered during the excavations carried out by M. Esteve Guerrero between 1942 and 1958. Although the lack of... more
The iconography of the archaic vases shows the hard work in the fields by the rural communities of Attica, with the representation of farmers of all ages and their animal companions, who were also valid workers in tilling the fields or... more
Dans le chapitre XI de son ouvrage sur les jeux périodiques, Louis Becq de Fouquières analyse l’askōliasmós, un jeu festif où les participants tentaient de rester en équilibre sur une outre remplie d’air ou de vin, préalablement enduite... more
Il filone di ricerca, radicato nell’eredità del progetto Pots&Plays avviato nel 2010, trova nuovo impulso nel seminario Filologia delle immagini. Grazie al dialogo tra studiosi di diversa formazione, offre un esempio concreto di come il... more