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Archaeological Survey and the City
Paul Johnson (Editor); Martin Millett (Editor)
In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the
practice of Classical Archaeology. During this time, approaches have developed
from the systematic collection of artefacts to include the routine deployment of
various geophysical and remote sensing techniques. The ability of archaeologists
to reveal the topography of buried urban sites without excavation has now
been demonstrated through a wide range of projects across the ancient world.
Archaeological Survey and the City reviews the results of such projects and in
particular discusses the ways in which the subject might develop in the future,
with an emphasis on the integration of different strands of evidence and issues
of archaeological interpretation rather than on the technicalities of particular
methodologies.
9781842175095, £36.00, Available Now
PB, 288p, 275 illus., University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs 2, Oxbow Books
A Culture of Translation
British and Irish Scholarship in the Gennadius Library (1740–1840)
Lynda Mulvin (Editor)
This volume of essays focuses principally on the collection of books of British and
Irish antiquarian scholars held in the Gennadius Library. Collectively, the essays are
the product of two thematically-linked conferences; the major premise explored in
the paper sessions of those conferences, and in this volume, concerns the work of
some of the most pioneering British and Irish 18– and early 19–century antiquarians,
artists, and architects who voyaged into the Mediterranean. The publication of
their findings in architectural treatises, travelogues and illustrated books came, in
turn, to inform international movements of art and architecture; specifically, the
Neoclassical and Greek Revival styles. Collectively, these books capture the allure of
the broader Mediterranean world for scholars of antiquity ever expanding beyond
the well-traveled boundaries enjoyed by Grand Tourists exploring issues such as
topography, history, cultural mores, dress and, of course, art and architecture.
Classical World – Ancient Greece
9789609994514, £13.00, Available Now
PB, 126p, 40 col & b/w figs, The New Griffon 13, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth
Drain 1971–1 in the Forum Southwest
Ian MacPhee (Author); Elizabeth G. Pemberton (Author)
In 1971, in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth, a roundbottomed
drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of
pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, as well as 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.
9780876610763, £100.00, Available Now, HB, 318p, 1 col. frontispiece, 74 b/w figs., 4 b/w ills., 52 b/w pls.,
18 charts, 4 tables, Corinth Series VII.6, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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