Isthmia: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains

Sabina Ion About the Author ebooks and print+ebook bundles are now available for current titles! Hunters, Heroes, Kings: Hallie M. Franks Tomb II at Vergina is a royal tomb, built to commemorate a member of the Macedonian royal family in the period of prosperity and opulence surrounding Alexander the Great s reign. The painted hunting scene that adorns the tomb s facade is a striking and rare example of Macedonian court art. Newly reconstructed here, the painting, dedicated to the recognition of the deceased, elucidates the cultural influences through which the kingdom and its rulers declared their legitimacy. In this study, Franks redefines the place of this masterpiece in Macedonian art, adroitly navigating myth, history, and visual tradition in her new interpretation of the famous Hunting Frieze at Vergina. Kathleen Lynch is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She has worked on sites in Italy, Greece, Albania, and Turkey. The major objectives of the study are excellent ones, and reflect the best current directions of pottery studies... [They] demonstrate decisively how much greater the whole is than the sum of its parts. Nicholas D. Cahill, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2013 James R. Wiseman Book Award (AIA) the symposium in context Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora Ancient Art and Architecture in Context Published with the support of the Getty Foundation, this series demonstrates, through case studies of specific artifacts and monuments, that aesthetic study, contextual investigation, and technical examination are complementary tools in the quest to retrieve meaning from the past. By combining archaeological and art historical approaches within a contextual framework, the books in this series exemplify true interdisciplinary research and lead to a richer understanding of antiquity. [This book] contributes valuable information about what an Athenian family was actually using, which helps us make inferences about their behavior.... Readers will find it useful and interesting to examine a household assemblage, especially to be able to study an Athenian house s well-preserved assortment of pottery used for symposia. Martha K. Risser, Associate Professor of Classics, Trinity College 2012 Codex Award CELJ (MLA) This book presents the first wellpreserved set of sympotic pottery recovered from a household near the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains utilitarian and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. The archaeological context allows the iconography of the figured wares to be associated with a specifically Athenian worldview, in contrast to Attic figured pottery made for export markets. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery reflects the purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted here shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology we can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation. www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications Follow us on Twitter @ascsapubs Jacket Illustrations Front: Facade of Tomb II, Vergina Photo Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism/17th Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities Back: Detail of lion hunt, Alexander Sarcophagus, ca. 310 b.c. Istanbul, Archaeological Museum 370 Photo Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY Back cover: (Left) Type C cup, owl between two tendrils (Right) Type C cup, eight-spoke wheel Hesperia K AT H L E E N M. LY N C H LY N C H Order Information for Books Order online at the David Brown Book Company and Oxbow Books: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/ Email: queries@dbbconline.com Standing orders are available at a 20% discount. Hallie Franks is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at New York University s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is currently excavating with the American Research Center in Sofia and The National Institute of Archaeology with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NIAM-BAS) at the Macedonian site of Heraclea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria. Her next project looks at the metaphorical connections between movement through architecture and travel in ancient Greece. Franks Contact: Andrew Reinhard, Director of Publications, areinhard@ascsa.org 6-8 Charlton Street Princeton, NJ 08540 609.454.6821 the symposium in context The author at the Macedonian site of Heraclea Sintica. 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Isthmia: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains by Joseph L. Rife Isthmia IX 512 pp., 267 figs., 61 tables Cloth, 9" x 12" ISBN: 978-0-87661-939-1 Purchase: www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/isthmia-ix.html This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954 and 1976 in several locales around the Isthmian Sanctuary and the succeeding fortifications. This material provides important evidence for both death and life in the Greek countryside during the Late Roman to Early Byzantine periods. Examination of burial within the local settlement, comparative study of mortuary behavior, and analysis of skeletal morphology, ancient demography, oral health and paleopathology all contribute to a picture of the rural Corinthians over this transitional era as interactive, resilient and modestly innovative.

Hunters, Heroes, Kings: by Hallie M. Franks Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 3 158 pp., 70 col. & b/w figs., 1 col. fold-out Cloth, 9.5" x 11.5" ISBN: 978-0-87661-966-7 Purchase: www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/hunters-heroes-kings.html This monograph considers the painted frieze on the façade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330 280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great. The hunting scene on the frieze reflects the construction of Macedonian royal identity through the appeal to specific and long-standing cultural traditions, which emerged, long before Alexander s reign, out of a complex negotiation of claims to heroic and local dynastic pasts, regional ideals of kingship, and models of royal behavior provided by the East.

Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth: Drain 1971-1 in the Forum Southwest by Ian McPhee and Elizabeth G. Pemberton Corinth VII.6 318 pp., 1 col. frontispiece, 74 b/w figs., 4 b/w ills., 52 b/w pls., 18 charts, 4 tables Cloth, 9" x 12" ISBN: 978-0-87661-076-3 Purchase: www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/late-classical-pottery-fromancient-corinth.html In 1971 in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth a round-bottomed drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery and metal and stone objects, and includes a re-examination of the coins by Orestes Zervos. Some of the cooking ware has been subjected to neutron activation analysis, and a statistical analysis of all recovered pottery has been completed. The contents of Drain 1971-1 are important for the function of the Classical buildings in this part of Corinth, especially Buildings I and II, and for the chronology of the renovation program that included the construction of the South Stoa, which was probably not built before the last decade of the 4th century.

The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora by Kathleen M. Lynch Hesperia Supplement 46 400 pp., 24 col. and 258 b/w figs., 15 tables Paper, 8.5" x 11" ISBN: 978-0-87661-546-1 Purchase: www.oxbowbooks.com/dbbc/the-symposium-in-context.html This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology one can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation.

Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ISSN: 0018-098X E-ISSN: 1553-5622 Frequency: Quarterly Hesperia is published quarterly by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Founded in 1932 to publish the work of the School, the journal now welcomes submissions from all scholars working in the fields of Greek archaeology, art, epigraphy, history, materials science, ethnography, and literature, from earliest prehistoric times onward. Hesperia is a refereed journal, available in both print and electronic formats. All articles from 1932 2009 are available as Open Access, free to download here: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ index.php/publications/hesp-open-access Subscribe Electronic-Only (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/action/showpublication?journalcode= hesperia Subscribe Print+Electronic (Turpin Distribution): http://ebiz.turpin-distribution.com/journallist. aspx?companycode=asc

Corinth Site Guide Guy D. R. Sanders et al. Agora Museum Guide Laura Gawlinski The Architecture and Settlement of Lerna IV (Lerna VI) Elizabeth C. Banks The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions (Corinth XVIII.6) Ronald S. Stroud A Slice Through Time: Tombs along the North Terrace at Corinth (Corinth XXI) Kathleen W. Slane Funerary Sculpture (Agora XXXV) Janet B. Grossman