Morgantina Studies, Volume VI : : The Hellenistic and Roman Fine Pottery / / Shelley C. Stone.

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• VerfasserIn: Stone, Shelley C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University ; 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) :; 706 halftones. 993 line illus.11 tables.

Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported. This volume presents the fine-ware pottery dating between the second half of the fourth century BCE, when Morgantina was a th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Text Figures, Tables, and Charts
• List of Plates
• Editors' Preface
• Preface
• Bibliography and Abbreviations
• I. History and Archaeology of Morgantina
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Historical Sketch of Morgantina, 340 BCE-ca. 50 CE
• 3. The Pottery Deposits and Contexts
• 4. Regional Pottery Production Represented at Morgantina: Fabrics and Gloss
• II. The Later 4th and 3rd Centuries BCE
• 1. Introduction: Fine Pottery in Sicily in the Later 4th and 3rd Centuries BCE
• 2. Black-Gloss Pottery, Including Vases with Overpainted Decoration
• 3. East Sicilian Polychrome Wares
• III. Republican Morgantina: Black- and Red-Gloss Wares after 211 BCE to ca. 35-25 BCE
• 1. Introduction: The 2nd and 1st Centuries to ca. 35 BCE
• 2. Fine Wares of the First Half of the 2nd Century BCE
• 3. Campana C Black-Gloss Pottery
• 4. Other Black-Gloss and Miscellaneous Fine Wares
• 5. Republican Red-Gloss Pottery of the 1st Century BCE
• 6. Imported Eastern Sigillata A
• 7. Decoration on Tablewares, ca. 211-ca. 35 BCE
• IV. Imported Early Italian Terra Sigillata and South Italian Regional Sigillatas
• 1. Introduction: The Last Decades of the 1st Century BCE and the First Half of the 1st Century CE
• 2. Early Italian Terra Sigillata
• 3. Regional Terra Sigillatas: Campanian Orange and Sicilian (?)
• Pottery with Moldmade Decoration
• 1. Introduction: Moldmade Pottery at Morgantina from the Late 4th Century BCE to the First Half of the 1st Century CE
• 2. Medallion Wares
• 3. Vessels with Relief Appliqués and Other Moldmade Ornament
• 4. Moldmade Hemispherical Relief Cups ("Megarian Bowls") and Related Relief Wares
• 5. Early Italian Terra Sigillata Relief Wares
• 6. Green-Glazed Wares
• VI. Thin-Walled Pottery
• 1. Fabrics and Origins
• 2. Chronology
• 3. Shape Typology and Decoration
• VII. Catalogue
• Appendix 1: The Evidence for Pottery Manufacture at Morgantina from the Later 4th Century BCE to the 1st Century CE
• Appendix 2: The Provenance of Ceramics at Morgantina from the 3rd Century BCe through the 1st Century Ce as Defined by Portable eDXRF Analysis, by Malia Johnson and Maury Morgenstein
• Appendix 3: Concordance of Shapes Found at Morgantina with Those Commonly Found in the Tombs of the 4th and the First Half of the 3rd Century BCE on Lipari
• Appendix 4: The Morgantina Silver Treasure
• Concordance of Inventory Numbers
• Subject Index
• Index of Deposits and Contexts
• Plates