{"title":"Bronze Statuettes from the Athenian Agora: Evidence for Domestic Cults in Roman Greece","authors":"Heather Sharpe","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0143","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study presents two deposits of bronze statuettes discovered in the Athenian Agora. Both groups were found with material associated with the Herulian sack of a.d. 267/8. The author proposes that these statuettes were used in the service of domestic cults. The Greek, Roman, and Egyptian deities represented illustrate the diversity of domestic cult activities current in Athens during the mid-3rd century a.d. While the deposits provide some evidence for Roman domestic cult practices in Athens, it is clear that Greek cult practices remained the dominant tradition.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"33 1","pages":"143 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89703422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flights of Archaeology: Peschke's Acrocorinth","authors":"Kostis Kourelis","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0723","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Georg Vinko von Peschke (1900–1959) was a celebrated artist in 1930s Greece and a staff member of the American School excavations in Corinth, Isthmia, and Olynthos. His large work Acrocorinth (1932), painted while carrying out the castle's architectural survey, provides insights into the creative dimensions behind the School's scholarly identity. Peschke brought archaeological practices into a direct conversation with modernist poetics that sought to incorporate old historical landscapes with new and radical conceptions of the self. Through Peschke, American archaeologists turned Corinth into an interdisciplinary laboratory that explored the interface of digging, dwelling, and thinking.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"136 1","pages":"723 - 782"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89759346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inscriptions from Panakton","authors":"M. Munn","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.90.2.0281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.90.2.0281","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Six inscriptions of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. recovered during surface survey and excavation at Panakton (the paleokastro above Prasino/Kavasala) are published here in full, four of them for the first time. The earliest, an arsenal inventory, preserves an archon date of 343/2 B.C.; three are ephebic texts of the Lykourgan era; one is a dedication by soldiers of the garrison in the second half of the 3rd century; one is a fragmentary heading. These inscriptions, the first found on this site, prove beyond doubt that this was the Athenian fortress of Panakton, and they provide new evidence for armaments, the ephebeia, and the history of Panakton among Attic garrison forts.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"24 1","pages":"281 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74593927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Camps of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, 42 B.C.","authors":"C. J. Butera, M. Sears","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.86.2.0359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.86.2.0359","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The traditional interpretation of the Battle of Philippi (42 B.C.) locates the camps of Brutus and Cassius to the west of the city of Philippi. This article proposes a new location for the camps based on three key arguments: (1) there are no hills in the traditional location corresponding to the hills mentioned in the ancient sources; (2) there are two hills in the southeastern section of the plain, near modern Amygdaleonas, that fit the ancient descriptions much more closely; and (3) an alternate route into the plain, south of Mount Pangaion, renders the traditional location strategically unfeasible.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"28 1","pages":"359 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80075814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A DEPOSIT OF LATE HELLADIC IIIA2 POTTERY FROM TSOUNGIZA","authors":"P. Thomas","doi":"10.1353/hes.2006.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hes.2006.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:ABSTRACTAlthough Arne Furumark distinguished between early and late phases of Late Helladic IIIA2, few deposits from the former have ever been published. Presented here is a chronologically homogeneous settlement deposit of more than 10,000 sherds from Tsoungiza in the northeast Peloponnese, some from vessels probably employed in feasting. LH IIIA2 (early) painted ceramics exhibit strong connections to the preceding LH IIIA1 period, both in the large proportion of solidly painted vessels and in several common motifs, but new shapes such as the stemmed bowl and some new motifs allow a clear chronological division to be made between LH IIIA2 (early) and the contiguous periods.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"1 1","pages":"171 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78850709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Iconography of a Protoarchaic Cup From Kommos: Myth and Ritual in Early Cretan Art","authors":"A. Kotsonas","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.88.4.0595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.88.4.0595","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A 7th-century B.C. cup from the sanctuary of Kommos in Crete presents what may be the most complex and multifigured scene on a Cretan ceramic vessel of any period, and it has long puzzled scholars. Based on a recent reexamination of the cup, the present study offers original insights into its fabric, its technique of manufacture, and especially its iconography. Through this examination, an identification of episodes from the Trojan War is proposed, the relevance of this imagery to the cultural context of production and consumption is explained, and this interpretation is situated within the debate over the identification of myth and ritual in Cretan art of the early 1st millennium B.C.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"294 1","pages":"595 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79541926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reappraisal of the Athena Promachos Accounts from the Acropolis (IG I3 435)","authors":"E. Foley, R. Stroud","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.88.1.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.88.1.0087","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We present here a new edition of IG I3 435, an Athenian inscription of the 5th century B.C. traditionally identified as the accounts recording the creation of the great bronze statue of Athena Promachos on the Acropolis, a work of Pheidias. We provide a revised text, translation, notes on readings, and commentary, together with a discussion of the physical reconstruction of the original stele, the arrangement of the fragments, the date of the inscription, and the duration and estimated cost of the project. A review of the literary, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence for the statue of Athena Promachos suggests that the arguments for associating IG I3 435 with this statue are not persuasive and that another identification must be sought.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"81 1","pages":"153 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76708025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lament and Death instead of Marriage: The Iconography of Deceased Maidens on Attic Grave Reliefs of the Classical Period","authors":"Katia Margariti","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.87.1.0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.87.1.0091","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the iconography of Athenian maidens (parthenoi) from Classical-period funerary reliefs. By challenging the long-standing loutrophoros theory that this vessel is a symbol of untimely death before marriage, it becomes apparent that this meaning applies only when it is used in specific iconographic configurations in scenes on grave stelai or when it appears on top of a stele. The consideration of additional iconography exclusively characteristic of maiden figures on funerary reliefs, in conjunction with the iconography of prepubescent girls and young married women, leads to the conclusion that the Attic peplos and the shoulder-pinned back-mantle prove to be the most useful iconographical features for the identification of maidens.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"140 1","pages":"176 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77701514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animals, Economics, and Culture in the Athenian Agora: Comparative Zooarchaeological Investigations","authors":"M. MacKinnon","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.83.2.0189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.83.2.0189","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This synthetic investigation of a large sample of zooarchaeological remains, collected chiefly over the years 1934 through 1996, highlights the range of human cultural, social, and behavioral aspects involving animals and their products over time and space for the Athenian Agora. Evidence supports the hypothesis that specialized husbandry and dietary schemes focusing on domestic sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle began in Neolithic times. Subsequent periods build upon this foundation, and culminate in extensive deposits of butchery, horn and bone processing, and dietary waste within Classical-period levels. Patterns alter with Roman and Late Antique influence to slightly augmented pork consumption and even more systematic butchery patterns, before shifting back again to higher frequencies of goat pastoralism during Byzantine times.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"20 1","pages":"189 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83331138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathan T. Arrington, G. Spyropoulos, Demetrios J. Brellas
{"title":"Glimpses of the Invisible Dead: A 7th-Century B.C. Burial Plot in Northern Piraeus","authors":"Nathan T. Arrington, G. Spyropoulos, Demetrios J. Brellas","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.90.2.0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.90.2.0233","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A rescue excavation in northern Piraeus uncovered a burial plot with funeral activity from the 7th to early 5th century B.C. The material from the 7th century offers important data on a period that is often invisible to archaeologists and challenges the scholarly correlation of visibility with status. Looking beyond the spectacular remains of the Kerameikos cemetery provides a more comprehensive understanding of the range of burying practices operative in 7th-century Athens and Attica. Age critically impacted the type of burial and its visibility in the archaeological record. Several child burials contained remarkable vases that illuminate the latest phase of the Protoattic style.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":"23 1","pages":"233 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90414380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}