{"title":"Figurines. A Microcosmos of Clay. An Exhibition","authors":"Angeliki Koukouvou","doi":"10.4000/acost.1039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.1039","url":null,"abstract":"A major exhibition opened at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki on April 3, 2017. Entitled “Figurines. A Microcosmos of Clay,” this exhibition presents some 617 terracotta figurines from Macedonia and Thrace that range in date from the early Neolithic period to late antiquity.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128672801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representations of Masked Figures: A Comparative Study and an Interpretative Approach to their Cult-Use and Meaning","authors":"Maria G. Spathi","doi":"10.4000/acost.1018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.1018","url":null,"abstract":"This note is a condensed version of a forthcoming study to appear in Popular religion and ritual in Prehistoric and ancient Greece and the east Mediterranean, edited by G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, K. Kanellopoulos and Y. Papadatos, Oxbow, 2017. It focuses on handmade figurines of the Classical period with mold-made, mask-like faces that were brought to light at the Cave of the Nymphs in Lechova, Corinthia. An examination of their iconographic characteristics in relation to other representations of similar iconography, as well as literary sources mentioning the use of masks in ritual, shed light on their use in initiation rites.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115494961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figurines masculines en contextes votif et funéraire de la Thessalie à la Thrace : Marqueurs identitaires et témoins des rituels d’intégration et de socialisation ?*","authors":"Souad Aït Salah","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.1026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.1026","url":null,"abstract":"* Projet de recherche doctorale sous la direction de Arthur Muller et Stephanie Huysecom-Haxhi (Halma–UMR 8164). Le sujet de recherche propose ici porte sur les figurines en terre cuite masculines recueillies dans les sanctuaires et les tombes de Thrace, de Macedoine et de Thessalie aux epoques archaique, classique et hellenistique. Cette etude s’inscrit dans les travaux sur la coroplathie grecque qui constitue l’un des points forts des Sciences de l’Antiquite a l’Universite de Lille et qui f...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115036111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nachbildungen von ›originalen‹ Tanagrafiguren der Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin 1882-1886","authors":"J. Fischer","doi":"10.4000/acost.1033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.1033","url":null,"abstract":"From 1881 to 1886 the Berlin art dealer Fritz Gurlitt offered for sale replicas of the so-called Tanagra figurines that were handmade and colored copies of terracottas in the museums of Berlin, Paris, London, and St. Petersburg. Thirty of these figurines are still preserved in the Archaeological Collection of the University of Rostock. The current exhibition “Echt Antik! Terrakotten fur Salon und Museum” at the German Amber Museum (Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum) in Ribnitz-Damgarten presents these figurines and traces their journey from the excavations at Tanagra to their reproduction for the bourgeois salon (http://www.deutsches-bernsteinmuseum.de/sonderausstellungen.html).","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"64 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131727455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les figurines de terre cuite de l’Aphrodision d’Argos","authors":"Hélène Aurigny, F. Croissant","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.953","url":null,"abstract":"Fr La documentation coroplastique de l’Aphrodision d’Argos constitue un ensemble tres riche pour observer les creations de la plastique archaique argienne, en particulier la production des types de la « dame assise » qui associent modelage, pour le corps, et moulage, pour la tete. Leur etude revele l’existence de plus d’une vingtaine de visages differents, crees tout au long du vie siecle, qui montrent non seulement la creativite des ateliers argiens, mais qui posent aussi la question de la destination de ces modeles originaux et leur rapport avec les ateliers de bronziers. En tout cas, on voit se developper en parallele les techniques du modelage et du moulage durant le vie siecle.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114160938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un gruppo di culle-tintinnabula del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.","authors":"Riccardo Berriola","doi":"10.4000/acost.922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.922","url":null,"abstract":"Le culle-tintinnabula, i cui primi rinvenimenti provengono da corredi di sepolture infantili di Rodi, hanno un’origine databile ai primi decenni del V sec. a.C. Prodotti fittili di piccole dimensioni presentano sulla parte superiore a rilievo una figura di bambino in posizione supina con le gambe raccolte. In seguito questi oggetti trovano larga diffusione e diverse varianti iconografiche sempre in ambito greco, e solo successivamente, in eta ellenistica, nelle regioni dell’Italia centro-meridionale, probabilmente attraverso la mediazione di alcuni dei piu rinomati centri apuli per la produzione coroplastica come Egnazia e Taranto, nei cui contesti tombali risultano presenti gia dal IV sec. a.C. Vengono ora aggiunti maggiori dettagli al rilievo, quali il lenzuolo, il cappuccio o le fasce del bambino, mentre, talvolta, la figura non rappresenta piu semplicemente un qualsiasi mortale fanciullo, ma prende le sembianze di un erote alato.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123762239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Grotesque Terracotta Figurine of the First Century C.E. from Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland: Function, Use, and Meaning","authors":"Simone Voegtle","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.945","url":null,"abstract":"A Roman terracotta figurine representing a grotesque ithyphallic male figure with the characteristics of a cock is discussed in relation to its role as an apotropaic device.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126417189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terracotta Figurines from the Iron IIA Temple at Moza, Judah","authors":"Shua Kisilevitz","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.980","url":null,"abstract":"Four terracotta figurines, of which two are anthropomorphic and two are zoomorphic, were found within an assemblage of cult artifacts lying on the packed earth floor of an Iron IIA temple courtyard unearthed in the course of the renewed excavations at Tel Moza. The figurines are made of local clay, and likely produced with the intention of serving in rituals held at the temple. Though they are idiosyncratic, they incorporate motifs that are drawn from conventions prevalent throughout the Ancient Near East. These figurines are among the earliest Iron II figurines found in the southern Levant, and may constitute forerunners of the ubiquitous Iron IIB figurines prevalent throughout this region.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134410429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Collaborative Projects for Coroplastic Research, III. The Work of the Academic Year 2015-2016.","authors":"Arthur Muller, J. Uhlenbrock","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.1202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.1202","url":null,"abstract":"An international team of 7 researchers has been meeting biannually to collaborate on two projects that are envisaged as aids for coroplastic research. The first is the Handbook for Coroplastic Research (HaCoSt), a tool designed for those new to the field of coroplastic studies. The second project has been nicknamed Winter On-Line. This concerns the creation of a searchable version of Franz Winter, Die Typen der figurlichen Terrakotten, 1903, in wiki format.","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129778529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il potere dei simboli. Una mostra contro i tombaroli","authors":"Flavia Zarba","doi":"10.4000/acost.937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.937","url":null,"abstract":"Symbola. Συμβoλα. Il potere dei simboli. Una mostra contro i tombaroli.10 dicembre 2015 al 15 aprile 2016Stadio di DomizianoA cura di Vincenzo Lemmo","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121978403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}